Farmingdale Library Teens

Here are some young adult audiobooks you are sure to enjoy! Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi In debut novelist Choi's quirky love-story-of-sorts, narrators Osmanski's and Roy convincingly propel two misfits toward each other. Osmanski's Penny is slightly detached, avoiding her mother's orbit by escaping to UT Austin, hoping to find a whole new world.  Roy voices Sam, Penny's roommate's 21-year-old ex-uncle-by-marriage (got all that?). Penny and Sam's chance second meeting involves a panic-not-heart-attack. They fatefully designate each other "emergency contacts", and their texting begins... Mariam Sharma Hits the Road by Sheba Karim Mariam, Ghazala, and Umar are three best friends, their aural personalities immediately differentiated by chameleonic Nankani. Despite sharing Pakistani American and New Jersey backgrounds, their families couldn't be more different.  When Ghaz gets shamed by their pious Muslim community for posin...

Here are the 2019  CHILDREN'S & TEEN CHOICE WINNER AND HONOR BOOKS BY CATEGORY: For the Children’s Choice Book Award K – 2 nd  Grade Category: I SAY OOH YOU SAY AAH, written and illustrated by John Kane (Kane Miller Books) WINNER   THERE’S A DRAGON IN YOUR BOOK, by Tom Fletcher; illus. by Greg Abbott (Random House Books for Young Readers) HONOR For the Children’s Choice Book Award  3 rd  – 4 th  Grade Category: BACK TO THE FUTURE: The Classic Illustrated Storybook, by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale; illus. by Kim Smith (Quirk Books) WINNER SAFARI PUG, by Laura James; illus. by Églantine Ceulemans (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) HONOR For the Children’s Choice Book Award  5 th  – 6 th ...

Here are some suggestions from Terry Hong (SLJ March and May 2019) for great audiobooks for your summer vacation travels! Middle Grade Flying Lessons and Other Stories edited by Ellen Oh Some of the most beloved children's writers- including Matt de la Pena, Grace Lin and Walter Dean Myers- are gathered in this entertaining collection, guaranteed to resonate with diverse audiences. Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson Six middle schoolers are ushered every Friday afternoon into a former art room, cleverly renamed the "A-R-T-T room- A Room To Talk", and encouraged to "talk about the things kids talk about when no grown-ups are around". Woodson and her own children feature in the stellar cast. In the Shadow of the Sun by Anne Sibley O'Brien what do you do when your family trip turns out to be to North Korea?  Mia and Simon head to Pyongyang with their aid-director father, only to have him disappear, leaving the intrepid siblings to save him- and the...