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Surrey Teens Read Feature: OPPOSITE OF ALWAYS

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It’s the last of the STR features for this year. Opposite of Always is a heartfelt and witty rom-com that will pull at your heartstrings and make you laugh until you cry. It is a realistic fiction with a time travel (but not in a sci-fi way) twist.

When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows he’s falling—hard. Soon she’s meeting his best friends, Jillian and Franny, and Kate wins them over as easily as she did Jack.

But then Kate dies. And their story should end there.

Yet Kate’s death sends Jack back to the beginning, the moment they first meet, and Kate’s there again. Healthy, happy, and charming as ever. Jack isn’t sure if he’s losing his mind.

Still, if he has a chance to prevent Kate’s death, he’ll take it. Even if that means believing in time travel. However, Jack will learn that his actions are not without consequences. And when one choice turns deadly for someone else close to him, he has to figure out what he’s willing to do to save the people he loves. (Goodreads)

Check out the trailer.

This book is great but don’t take my word for it.

Surrey Teens Read Feature: PUMPKINHEADS

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This the graphic novel selection this year and it is fabulous and perfectly festive!

Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends.

Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is.) They say good-bye every Halloween, and they’re reunited every September 1.

But this Halloween is different—Josiah and Deja are finally seniors, and this is their last season at the pumpkin patch. Their last shift together. Their last good-bye.

Josiah’s ready to spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. Deja isn’t ready to let him. She’s got a plan: What if—instead of moping and the usual slinging lima beans down at the Succotash Hut—they went out with a bang? They could see all the sights! Taste all the snacks! And Josiah could finally talk to that cute girl he’s been mooning over for three years . . .

What if their last shift was an adventure? (Goodreads)

Check out this adorable trailer

Follow these videos to do a virtual “Read With Me”… SPOILERS!

Access to public library books for FREE

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Don’t bother paying for audible or purchasing e-books online. They are all available through Surrey Public Libraries for FREE.

Download the LIBBY app and enter in your public library card details. If you don’t have a library card you can easily get one online: HERE

Here is a quick video that breaks it all down

Don’t forget to check out the “How to Access E-books” tab from the main menu to find out how to access e-books and audio books through the North Surrey Secondary Library… hint its through Destiny Discover.

Surrey Teens Read Feature: HEROINE

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This book has some more mature content and themes compared to the other nominees this year, however it is a FABULOUS and yet terrifying read!

When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she’s ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she’s been prescribed can help her get there.

The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good.

With a new circle of friends—fellow injured athletes, others with just time to kill—Mickey finds peaceful acceptance, and people with whom words come easily, even if it is just the pills loosening her tongue.

But as the pressure to be Mickey Catalan heightens, her need increases, and it becomes less about pain and more about want, something that could send her spiraling out of control. (Goodreads)

Surrey Teens Read Feature: FRANKLY IN LOVE

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If you are looking for a book to make you laugh, pull at your heartstrings and also give you subtle advice on how not to suck at being a human then this is your next read.

High school senior Frank Li is a Limbo–his term for Korean-American kids who find themselves caught between their parents’ traditional expectations and their own Southern California upbringing. His parents have one rule when it comes to romance–“Date Korean”–which proves complicated when Frank falls for Brit Means, who is smart, beautiful–and white. Fellow Limbo Joy Song is in a similar predicament, and so they make a pact: they’ll pretend to date each other in order to gain their freedom. Frank thinks it’s the perfect plan, but in the end, Frank and Joy’s fake-dating maneuver leaves him wondering if he ever really understood love–or himself–at all. (Goodreads)

Check out this adorable trailer.

Okay this one is LONG! But I thought that it might inspire you to check out some online book clubs

SPOILERS DON’T WATCH IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THE BOOK YET