Teen & Tween Events
January 16 - 22, 2023

Tween and Teen events are in person unless otherwise noted.
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7th/8th Grade Book Club

Tuesday, January 17 at 7:30pm

Join us to discuss The Loop by Ben Oliver.

5th/6th Grade Writing Group 

Wednesday, January 18 at 7pm

Does your 5th or 6th grader love to write? This new writing group might be the group for them!

Registration is required

Teen MTG

Saturday, January 21 at 2pm

Meet up and play some Magic! 

For grades 5-12

Coming up for Teens and Tweens

Tween Graphic Novel Book Club

Tuesday, January 24 at 7pm 

Engineer with EXPLO: Hurricanes

Thursday, January 26 at 4pm

Spotlight on New Year, New Books! 

Tween Reads

Each year, we visit most 7th graders in Newton to talk about a list of books we think they should check out. You can access the list here, print out a PDF or request the books directly from the library! Here are just a few of our favorites:

The Golden Hour by Niki Smith - After seeing a violent attack at school, Manuel’s trauma manifests a safe space to dissociate with his phone camera. A new friendship helps him to connect again. 

Let the Monster Out by Chad Lucas - Bones Malone and Kyle Specks must find out why things keep getting stranger and stranger in their town. They must face their worst nightmares in their search for the truth.

Show Us Who You Are by Elle McNicoll - Cora, a neurodiverse 12-year-old, speaks to her best friend in a coma through a hologram provided by the Pomegranate Institute until she discovers the Institute has secrets to hide that only she can expose.

Teen Reads

Road of the Lost by Nafiza Azad - Enchanted to forget her past, Croi is summoned to the Otherworld, where she takes a perilous journey to find out her true identity and where she belongs.

Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf - As her best friend’s inactive Instagram starts posting again during the Scrabble competition with messages proposing that her death was no accident, Najwa must not only relive the trauma of Trina’s death, but also find out who is behind these mysterious posts.

Call Him Jack by Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long - Per his wife, Jackie Robinson was Jack, not Jackie. Reclaiming the narrative of Robinson, the biographers demonstrate his power as a fighter for justice, an advocate for equality and an inspiration for everyone beyond just baseball.