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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. 

Halloween Thrills and Chills - New Mysteries October 2024

Who doesn’t love October? The blazing fall foliage, the brisk weather, the brief, bright interlude between summer and winter - for many, October is the high point of the year.  Of course, October culminates with Halloween, notable for pranks, clanging door bells, costumes and too much candy. The holiday actually has ancient origins, dating back more than 2000 years to a Celtic observation called Samhain, when the ancients believed the shifting seasons opened a portal between the dead and the living.

Happy Fall!

Happy Fall! The kids are back in school, the days are getting shorter and the weather is cooling down.  Did you know that September is Library Card Sign Up Month? If you or your child don’t have a library card yet, use this map to find your home library.

Summer Olympics - Paris 2024

Timing is everything, in life and in sports.  The Paris Olympics, which run from July 26-August 11, are perfectly timed to provide diversion and inspiration at the midpoint of a summer that is beginning to feel too long and too hot.  Paris has previously hosted the Games twice, first  in 1900 and again in 1924.

Armchair Travel 2024

Feeling a surge of wanderlust but unable to travel this summer? Or, would you like to be  inspired, motivated and energized about planning a future journey? Why not escape into a genre known as “armchair travel,” books that transport. No need for an airline ticket, passport or security clearance and, best of all, no glitches and no headaches.  Exotic locales are just a page away when you check out the titles below.  Click on the book jacket for a catalog link. Or, create your own armchair journey by consulting our extensive catalog.  Adventure awaits.

Summer at Scarsdale Library

Summer is officially upon us and with that comes Summer Reading! Our Summer Reading Challenge has returned.  Make sure to sign up to receive your prizes for all the reading you do over the summer. 

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.

Beach Reads for Adults - 2024

There’s no better vacation - or staycation - companion than a good book, a real page turner that you absolutely cannot put down. The books pictured below encompass a wide variety of styles and themes; the one thing they have in common is their ability to transport.  See the quotes below for the thoughts of famous authors on the joys of summer reading.  And, finally, click on a book jacket to be taken to a catalog link.  

“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” Jeannette Walls

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.

 

Father's Day - June 16, 2024

Father’s Day, which always falls on the third Sunday in June, will be commemorated this year on June 16. While many of us think of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day as twin holidays, the two celebrations had very different historical trajectories. Mother’s Day became a national holiday only seven years after it was first celebrated on May 10, 1907, in Grafton, West Virginia.

Juneteenth 2024

Juneteenth, also known as the second Independence Day or Emancipation Day, is our eleventh and newest  federal  holiday,  following the creation of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day in 1983.  President Biden signed  the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law on June 17, 2021, officially making June 19 a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.  On June 19, 1865, 2,000 federal troops marched into Texas, the westernmost state in the Confederacy and the last state to acknowledge the end of slavery despite the fact that the Civil