Library Closing Early

Due to road conditions, the Library will close at 5pm Monday, December 23.  

Teens

Book displays in the teen area

Teen Events

This event is in the "Tweens" group.
This event is in the "Teens" group.

Tween and Teen Take-Out Box

All Day
Tweens, Teens
Virtual Event
Library Branch: Cromaine District Library
Room: Virtual Event
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Literacy Building Activity

Takeout Boxes

Sign up each month to receive a box filled with one or two library books hand-picked just for you, a sweet or savory treat, and other fun surprises! 

Everything in the box is yours to keep, aside from the library books (those need to be returned when you're finished reading them.) For grades 5 through 12.

Event Details:

This month's theme: Books Set Outside of the U.S.

Disclaimer(s)

Food & Drink

Food is prepared in an off site kitchen. While every attempt will be made to ensure food safety, we cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.

This event is in the "Tweens" group.
This event is in the "Teens" group.
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Kill the Pen Art Challenge

All Day
Tweens, Teens, Adults
Virtual Event
Library Branch: Cromaine District Library
Room: Virtual Event
Age Group: Tweens, Teens, Adults
Program Type: Contests/Call for Submissions, Arts and Crafts
Event Details:

One poster board. One brand new pen. One month to use it 'til the ink has run out and create a ballpoint masterpiece, to be displayed and voted on at the Cromaine Library! Are you up to the Challenge?

This event is in the "Baby to Pre-K" group.
This event is in the "Elementary" group.
This event is in the "Tweens" group.
This event is in the "Teens" group.
This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "All Ages" group.

Lego Challenge Day

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Baby to Pre-K, Elementary, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Cromaine District Library
Room: Youth Program Room
Age Group: Baby to Pre-K, Elementary, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Program Type: Activity Club, Hands On Learning
Registration Required
Event Details:

Choose a challenge or free play with thousands of Legos!  Caregivers welcome but not required! 

This event is in the "Teens" group.

Teen D&D Session: Murdocia Campaign

5:30pm - 7:30pm
Teens
Closed
Registration
Library Branch: Cromaine District Library
Room: Second Floor North Meeting Room
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Activity Club, Games and Recreation
Registration Required
Event Details:

Here begins the Murdocia Campaign. Those who wish to adventure through the Murdochian Meadows should be available the majority of Tuesday evenings from 5:30 pm - 730 pm throughout the school year.

This event is in the "Elementary" group.
This event is in the "Tweens" group.
This event is in the "Teens" group.

Afternoon Craft Time

4:00pm - 6:00pm
Elementary, Tweens, Teens
Library Branch: Cromaine District Library
Room: Youth Program Room
Age Group: Elementary, Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Arts and Crafts
Event Details:

Drop-in anytime between 4 - 6 PM to create something unique in this open-ended art event! For Grades K-12. Drop-in. 

This event is in the "Teens" group.
Registration
Library Branch: Cromaine District Library
Room: Second Floor North Meeting Room
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Activity Club, Games and Recreation
Registration Required
Event Details:

Here begins the Tales of the Ivory Shore Campaign. Those who wish to adventure through the Ivory Shore should be available the majority of Wednesday evenings from 5:30 pm - 730 pm throughout the school year.  

Services for Teens

The Teen Room Blog

Teen Resources

Biography Reference Source

Biography Reference Center logo
More than 450,000 biographies.
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Britannica School

Britannica School logo

Quick facts and in-depth information on history, geography, people, places, science, and more. Biographies, world atlas, countries comparison, articles, and interactive resources are available.

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Comics Plus: Teen Library

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Enjoy unlimited access to thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; on your computer, tablet, or phone. No holds. No wait lists. No limits.
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Creativebug

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Thousands of award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists.

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Download Destination/Libby

download destination, coordinated by the Library Network
Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more for free with your library card!
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Explora for Public Libraries

Explora for Public Libraries
Arts, biography, business, current events, geography and culture, health, history and social science, science and math.
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Teen Volunteering

Make new friends, help the community, learn valuable life skills, and have a blast doing it with Cromaine’s Teen Volunteer Program! There are two volunteering sessions, each with a one month open application period. Please check back later to apply for the next session.  

Volunteering gives teens the chance to build skills necessary for the workplace so we expect them to be independently responsible for every aspect of their experience.

Teen volunteers must be in 7th grade or higher. 

New Teen Fiction

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Furious

There's nothing more thrilling than being behind the wheel when the flag drops, a stretch of track ahead and her foot on the gas. Racing is in Jojo's blood. Or at least . . . it was.

Jojo Emerson-Boyd should be on the fast track to her own wildly successful racing career. Instead, she's spending the seemingly endless summer working at her grandmother's auto shop in the small town of Dell's Hollow. Everything changed when Jojo lost her mom, a celebrity NASCAR racer, in a tragic racing accident. Now, according to her dad, even getting her license is out of the question, so she might as well forget about racing. For the first time, her future seems foggy. But something comes into focus when Eliana "El" Blum turns up at the shop with an adorable scowl, a tough-girl vibe, and a mystery to solve. 

A Motorcyle GirlTM at heart, El grew up on the sidelines of the motocross circuit, watching Maxine, her idol of an older sister, compete. When she suddenly loses all contact with Max, El won't give up until she's found. She's determined to follow Max's trail of clues, the first of which leads straight to the auto shop and to Jojo. 

Jojo and El form a quick bond, and their relationship only deepens as they investigate Max's disappearance together. Falling for each other feels effortless—El the steady, measured pace to Jojo's fast lane. Impromptu road trips, heists, street races, and ever heightening stakes that feel ripped from a Fast & Furious movie test their resolve and the strength of their relationship. When the final laps of their search reveal surprising emotional truths, they'll have to trust each other and confront the grief woven into their complicated families if they hope to chase down their dreams.

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A Game Most Foul

From award-winning YA author Alison Gervais comes a contemporary mystery about a teen writer determined to discover what happened to a missing classmate, who finds herself caught up with a pair of very familiar detectives named Watson and Holmes. All her awakening powers of observation will be put to the test as she finds that the thing she thought was holding her back just might be her greatest strength.

Attending the prestigious Ashford College's writing seminar is a dream come true for Jules Montgomery, but the summer isn't unfolding as she hoped. Navigating London with her recent hearing loss is difficult, and hiding it from her classmates is a challenge. Even worse, she can't seem to shake a case of writer's block. When a fellow student goes missing, neither the police nor their teacher, Professor Watson, seem that concerned. Jules and her new friends Percy and Suruthi are determined to get to the bottom of the case and they're not alone: the strange man who frequents Jules' aunt's antique shop is eager to help--and his name is none other than Sherlock Holmes.

Now there are two mysteries to solve. What happened to their missing classmate? And how can it be that Watson and Holmes--two fictional characters from the Victorian era--are alive and well in the 21st century? The only way to find answers might lie in a quote from one of Watson's old stories: "You see, but you do not observe." Jules may not be able to hear all that well, but without her hearing aids, she can certainly see more than the average person. And nothing about this is case is average.

A Game Most Foul:

  • Features a Hard of Hearing protagonist written by a writer Hard of Hearing author drawing from personal experiences.
  • Is by Alison Gervais, author of The Silence Between Us, winner of the Schneider Family Award, Best Teen Honor Book 2020.
  • Will appeal to both casual and serious fans of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
  • Is a romance with a sweet love story.
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The Calculation of You and Me

A calculus nerd enlists her surly classmate’s help to win back her ex-boyfriend, but when sparks start to fly, she realizes there’s no algorithm for falling in love.

Marlowe Meadows understands a lot of things. She understands that calculus isn’t overwhelmingly beautiful to everyone, and that it typically kills the mood when you try to talk Python coding over beer pong. She understands that people were surprised when golden boy Josh asked her out and she went from weird, math-obsessed Marlowe to half of their school’s couple goals. Unfortunately, Marlowe was the one surprised when Josh dumped her because he’d prefer a girlfriend who's more romantic. One with emotional depth.

But Marlowe has never failed anything in her life, and she isn’t about to start now. When she’s paired with Ashton Hayes for an English project, his black clothing and moody eyeliner cause a bit of a systems overload, and the dissonant sounds of his rock band make her brain itch. But when she discovers Ash's hidden stash of love songs, Marlowe makes a desperate deal to unleash her inner romantic heroine: if Ash will agree to help her write some love letters to win back Josh, she’ll calculate the perfect data analytics formula to make Ash's band go viral.

As the semester heats up with yearning love notes, a syllabus of romance novels, and late nights spent with a boy who escapes any box her brain tries to put him in, Marlowe starts to question if there’s really a set solution to love. Could a girl who's never met a problem she can't solve have gotten the math so massively wrong?

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Four Eids and a Funeral

Ex-best friends, Tiwa and Said, must work together to save their Islamic Center from demolition, in this romantic story of rekindling and rebuilding by award-winning authors Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé & Adiba Jaigirdar! 

The town of New Crosshaven has it all—even its own infamous love story. 

These days, Said Hossain spends most of his time away at boarding school. But when his favorite hometown librarian, Ms. Barnes, dies, he must return to New Crosshaven for her funeral and for the summer. Too bad being home makes it a lot harder to avoid facing his ex–best friend, Tiwa Olatunji, or facing the daunting task of telling his Bangladeshi parents that he would rather be an artist than a doctor.

Tiwa doesn’t understand what made Said start ignoring her, but it’s probably that fancy boarding school of his. Though he’s unexpectedly staying at home through the summer, she’s determined to take a page from him and pretend he doesn’t exist. Besides, she has more than enough going on anyway, between grieving her broken family and helping her mother throw the upcoming Eid celebration at the Islamic Center—a place that means so much to Tiwa.

But when the Islamic Center accidentally catches fire, it turns out the mayor plans to demolish the center entirely. Things are still tense between the ex-friends, but Tiwa needs Said’s help if there’s any hope of changing the mayor’s mind, and on top of everything, Said needs a project to submit to art school (unbeknownst to anyone). 

Will all their efforts be enough to save the Islamic Center, save Eid, and maybe even save their relationship?

New Manga & Graphic Novels

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The Worst Ronin

When an unlikely pair of female samurai join forces, what begins as your run-of-the-mill quest for glory and revenge evolves into something much more complicated. Turns out fighting actual demons doesn't mean you're not running from your own internal ones. Nimona meets Attack on Titan in this edgy, unexpectedly hilarious, genre-defying young adult graphic novel.

Being a samurai isn't easy. Sixteen-year-old Chihiro Ito knows that more than anyone. Her father is renowned among the samurai, but the only thing Chihiro is known for is spending way too much time on her phone obsessing over Tatsuo Nakano, Chihiro's idol and the first woman to be accepted into Kesi Academy, a prestigious samurai school.

So, when Chihiro's father is conscripted for service and the opportunity arises to work with Tatsuo in his stead, Chihiro jumps at the chance to prove that she's worthy of a spot at Kesi Academy and the samurai title. Their mission: kill the yamauba demon terrorizing a village. With a legendary samurai like Tatsuo by her side, Chihiro is convinced victory is inevitable. But Tatsuo isn't at all like the hero Chihiro imagined. Foulmouthed, quick tempered, and a terrible drunk, Tatsuo completely turned her back on the samurai way and is now a ronin working for hire as a means of escaping the grief that haunts her. Forced to work together, the two are thrust on a treacherous journey filled with epic battles and twisted conspiracies as they must put aside their differences to save the village and face the demons of the past.

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Brownstone

An Indie Next List Selection!

"Angsty. Awkward. With a scrappy heart of gold, Brownstone is a must-read for anyone who's ever felt totally out of place." --Gabby Rivera, bestselling author of Juliet Takes a Breath

An exciting teen coming-of-age epic from author Samuel Teer and debut graphic novel artist Mar Julia, Brownstone is a vivid, sweeping, ultimately hopeful story about navigating your heritage even when you feel like you don't quite fit in.

Almudena has always wondered about the dad she never met.

Now, with her white mother headed on a once-in-a-lifetime trip without her, she's left alone with her Guatemalan father for an entire summer. Xavier seems happy to see her, but he expects her to live in (and help fix up) his old, broken-down brownstone. And all along, she must navigate the language barrier of his rapid-fire Spanish--which she doesn't speak.

As Almudena tries to adjust to this new reality, she gets to know the residents of Xavier's Latin American neighborhood. Each member of the community has their own joys and heartbreaks as well as their own strong opinions on how this young Latina should talk, dress, and behave. Some can't understand why she doesn't know where she comes from. Others think she's "not brown enough" to fit in.

But time is running out for Almudena and Xavier to get to know each other, and the key to their connection may ultimately lie in bringing all these different elements together. Fixing a broken building is one thing, but turning these stubborn individuals into a found family might take more than this one summer.