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2025 SPL Summer Reading for Teens

For teens of all ages, rising into Grades 6 through 12: It’s almost that time of year all students are waiting for: summer! 

With that comes the annual Summer Reading Challenge–this year’s theme is “Color Our World.” 

Must Read Books

Welcome to  Must Read Books, Scarsdale Public Library

Teen Services Review Corner

Teens in grades 6 -12 are welcome to read and

write book reviews for fellow reading enthusiasts. 

If you click on the cover or title of a book, you will be

directly linked to our catalog to see if it is available.

If you're interested writing reviews for Must Read Books,

send us an email at teen@scarsdalelibrary.org. 

If you were going to choose a new name for yourself, what would it be?

Hello Scarsdale Teens!

Here's the next installment of our bite-sized writing exercise: Post-it Prompts!

Our latest prompt for you was:  If you were going to choose a new name for yourself, what would it be?

You wrote:

  • I'd just keep my name Artur
  • Bob
  • Katie
  • I would choose the name Amelia - Janice
  • Something awesome - Cate

This project is brought to you by Scarsdale Public Library's Teen Services Department & Teen Advisory Board.

A Certain Way: A Pride Month Retrospective

When the world has decided that people are supposed to be a certain way, but you’re living proof to the contrary, then hiding your differences is just helping everybody else erase who you are. - Cat Sebastian’s You Should Be So Lucky


Every reader their book. Every book its reader. - Two of S. R. Ranganathan’s Five Laws of Library Science

 

Please note: All opinions expressed in this blog are my own.

 

APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH: WRITE A HAIKU!

Hello Scarsdale Teens!

Here's April's installment of our bite-sized writing exercise:  Post-it-Prompts!

Our latest prompt for you was:  April is National Poetry Month: Write a Haiku!

You wrote:

What was your proudest accomplishment?

Hello Scarsdale Teens!

Here is the March installment of our bite-sized writing exercise: Post-it-Prompts!

Our latest prompt for you was: What was your proudest moment?

You wrote:

Young Adult Artists' Showcase of Scarsdale

Every month, Scarsdale Public Library's Teen Services Department collects via this Google Form images of original artworks created by local teens (i.e., those in Grades 6 through 12) to display on our Teen Room flatscreen.

Each teen artist may submit up to five pieces per month. The submission deadline for the following month's showcase is the 15th of the current month.

Path to Empowerment: Empowering High School Girls forum

The Path to Empowerment: Empowering High School Girls forum is brought to you by SHS student Sonya Chen in partnership with the Greenburgh and Scarsdale Public Libraries.

This series was designed to equip girls to feel more empowered, self-confident, and better prepared to handle the day-to-day challenges they encounter. Participation is open to high school girls in grades 9-12.

Name a creature that seems impossible but exists anyway.

Hello Scarsdale Teens!

Here's the 13th installment of our bite-sized writing exercise: Post-it Prompts!

Our latest prompt for you is: Name a creature that seems impossible but exists anyway.

Here's what you said:

  • duck-billed platypus
  • geoduck ("gooey-duck")
  • dinosaur
  • narwhal
  • axolotl
  • bumble bee
  • your dad/mom

Our next Post-it Prompt will launch in December.