Teen Queer Reads / 1st Wednesdays / 6PM
Teen Queer Reads
A Monthly Book Club for Queer & Allied Youth.
(ages 12-18)
The first Wednesday of each month from 6:00 to 7:30 PM in the SAL Room.
Queer Reads is an LGBTQ-friendly book club for kids 12-18. It’s a safe place to share thoughts around books we are reading and to talk about ideas and issues.
Please stop by the youth desk for a copy of this months book.
February Discussion Book and Date:
sir callie and the champions of helston
by
Wednesday, February 5th
In a magical medieval world filled with dragons, shape-shifters, and witches, a twelve-year-old nonbinary hopeful knight battles for the
heart of their kingdom. A thrilling middle-grade series opener that explores identity and gender amid sword fights and magic, and proves anyone can be a hero.
When their ex-hero dad is summoned back to the royal capital of Helston
to train a hopeless crown prince, Callie lunges at the opportunity to finally
prove themself worthy to the kingdom’s “great and powerful.” Except the
intolerant great and powerful look at nonbinary Callie and only see girl. But
Callie has always known exactly what they want to be, and they’re not
about to let anything stand in their way.
Trapped in Helston’s rigid hierarchy where girls learn magic and boys train
as knights, Callie discovers they aren’t alone—there’s Elowen, the
chancellor’s brilliant daughter, whose unparalleled power is being stifled;
Edwyn, Elowen’s twin brother desperate to win his father’s approval; and
Willow, the crown prince who was never meant to be king.
In this start to an epic series packed with action, humor, and heart, Callie
and their new friends quickly find themselves embedded in an ancient war
—and their only hope to defeat the threats outside the kingdom lies in first
defeating the bigotry within
March Discussion Book and Date:
BLOOM BY KEVIN PANETTA
Wednesday, March 5th
Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band―if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at their struggling family bakery. Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away over rising dough and hot ovens. But while interviewing candidates for his replacement, Ari meets Hector, an easygoing guy who loves baking as much as Ari wants to escape it. As they become closer over batches of bread, love is ready to bloom . . . that is, if Ari doesn’t ruin everything.
Writer Kevin Panetta and artist Savanna Ganucheau concoct a delicious recipe of intricately illustrated baking scenes and blushing young love, in which the choices we make can have terrible consequences, but the people who love us can help us grow.
April Discussion Book and Date:
EVERY HEART A DOORWAY
BY: SEANAN McGUIRE
Wednesday, April 2nd
Winner of the Hugo Award, Hugo Award for Best Series, Alex Award, Locus Award, and Nebula Award
New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire presents a fresh take on the portal fantasy genre that blends Alice in Wonderland, The Magicians, and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children
No Solicitations
No Visitors
No Quests
Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere… else.
But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.
Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced… they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.
But Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home. There’s a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of things.
No matter the cost.