Welcome to the Young Adult Page

There are some many wonderful things that can be done here at the Grant County Library… 

 TEEEN ADVISORY COUNCIL!!!

              Also known as TAC, this is a council that is made up of the teens/tweens in the community.  We meet once a month in the YA department, to go over different subjects, or events that we would like to dicuss. 
In order to sign up, a parent/gaurdian needs to acompany their child to sign papers. 

 There is also a place located in the Young Adult Department where kids are able to sit and read a book, or magazine. A great place to pick up a good book, and relax!!!

  The YA Department has public access Computers! The computers on the YA level are to be used only by young adults, anyone under 18 will need to have a parent come to the library and sign an Internet policy. Young adults  have an hour limit on the computer. Library policy explains what is allowed on public access computers.

 Aside from having magazines and newspapers on the YA level, we also have Young Adult magazines; magazines that are more interesting to the young adults.  For example we have Seventeen, Cosmo Girl, BMX, and Motorcyclist.  

NEW BOOKS!!!

 Em was sure there couldn’t be anything worse then being a braniac in the body of a teenage supermodel.
    But it turned out that she was wrong.
It turns out she has a mother who’s gone mysteriously missing, a brother who’s shown up on her doorstep demanding answers, a former best friend who’s intent on destroying Stark Enterprises, and a bristish heartthrob who’s written a song about her that’s topping the charts.
    How can Em balance all that with school and runway shows – especially when she’s got an ex-boyfriends crawling out of the wood work who want more then just a photo op, a sisterwho is headed to the High School cheerleading championships, and a company she represents thte seems to be turning to the dark side…
Not to mention trying to convince the love of her life that models aren’t really airheads after all…especially one model in particular

Alexis thought that she had led a typically dysfunctional high school existence: dysfunctional like her parents marriage; her doll-crazy thirteen-year-old sister, Kasey is acting stranger then ever her own anti social, anti-cheerleader attitude.
   When a family argument results in tearful sisterly bonding, Alexis realizes that her life is creeping from dysfunctional to dangerous.  Kasey is acting stranger then ever: Her blue eyes go green she uses odd, old fashion language-and she even loses track of chunks of time, claiming to know nothing about her wierd behavior.  Thier old house is changing too.  Doors open and close by themselves, water boils on the unlit stove, and unplugged air conditioner turns the house cold enough to see their breath.
  Alexis wants to believe it’s all in her head, until these seemingly harmless occurences become life threatening to her, to her family, and to her budding relationship with the student council vice president.  Alexis knows she’s the only person who can stop Kasey; but what if that green-eyed girl isn’t even Kasey anymore.

Jack Fountain knows that what’s happened to his family sounds like the most horrible soap opera anyone could ever write.  But its all true.  It happened to his parents, to his sisters, Smithy, and Madison,  and to his baby brother, Tris.  What made it worse was the the media wanted to know every detail.
    Now it’s almost Tris’s third birthday, and everything’s starting again.  Aunt Cheryl, who’s living with the Fountain Children now that their parents are gone, has decided that they will heal only if they work through their pain-on camera.  It will be a field day for the media, and no one, except Cheryl, wants that.  Jack and his sisters gear up to keep Tris’s adorable face off-screen, but they quickly realize that there is more at stake then their privacy.  The very identities they’ve created for themselves are called into question.  Is jack as responsible as he’s always strived to be?  Why does it suddenly seem to matter to Smithy that she left her brothers to fend for themselves?  Why did Madison turn away? What really happned the day of their father’s accidental death?
    The siblings decide to ask questions no one asked at the time of the tragedy.  In less than twenty-four hours their fate will change yet again, but this time they vow that they will not be exploited.
   In this gripping thriller, Caroline B. Cooney deatils how love, devotion, and forgiveness make resilience-and recovery-possible.

Abandoned by her mother on Jellicoe Road when she was eleven, Taylor Markham, now seventeen is finally being confronted with her past.  But as the reluctant leader of her boarding school dorm, there isn’t a lot of time for inspection.  And while Hannah, the closest adult Taylor has to family, has disappeared, Jonah Griggs is back in town, moody stares and all.
   In this absorbing story by Melina Marchetta, nothing is as it seems and every clue leads to more questions as Taylor tries to work out the connection between her mother dumping her, Hannah finding her,  and her sudden departure, a mysterious stranger who once whispered something in her ear, a boy in her dreams, five kids who lived on Jellicoe Road eighteen years ago, and the maddening and magnetic Jonah Griggs, who knows her better then she thinks he does.  If Taylor can put together the pieces if her past she might just be able to change her future.

Conor Broekhart was born to fly.  In fact, legend has it that he was born flying, in a hot air balloon at the Paris World’s fair. 
   In the 1890’s Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast.  Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king’s daughter, Princess Isabella.  But the boy’s idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a deadly conspiracy against the king.  When Conor tries to intervene, he is branded a traitor and thrown into jail on the prison island of Little Saltee.  There, he has to fight for his life, as he and the other prisoners are forced to mine for diamonds in inhumane conditions.
   There is one way to escape Little Saltee, and this is to fly.  So Conor passes the solitary months by scratching drawings of flying machines on the prison walls.  The months turn into years; but eventually the day comes when Conor must find the courage to trust his revolutionary designs and take to the skies.

 Mr. Nak’s Anger Management group is a place for misfits…  A place for stories…  And, man, does this crew have stories.
There’s Angus Bethune and Sarah Byrnes who can hide from everyone but each other.  Together, they will embark on a road trip full of haunting endings and glimmering beginnings. 
And Montana West, who doesn’t step down from a challenge.  Not even when the challenge comes from her adoptive dad, who’s leading the school board censor the article she wrote for the school paper. 
 And straightlaced Matt Miller, who had never been friends with outspoken genius Marcus James, until one tragic week-a week they’d do anything to change brings them closer then Matt could have ever imagined.

All’s quiet in the small town of Holliswood-television sets, computers, and portable devices are aglow in every home, classroom, and store.  But not all is perfect.  Evil is lurking, just out of sight, begind the screen.
From the darkest depths of James Patterson’s imagination flickers the most terrifying character yet: a villain with more ambition then the world can with stand, dead set on throwing a sleepy town into chaos and documenting the destruction of every person in it including Daniel.
Daniel X is the only person who can stop the made-for-T.V. tyrant from wiping out the city and everyone living there.  This devilish director assembles an all star team of his own creation, and not even Daniel can imagine the enormity of his plans.  Can Daniel X stop this deranged outlaw before he stages the most spectacular finale the world has ever seen?  Or will Daniel find himself on the cutting room floor?

Thirteen year olds Jonah and Chip are reeling from the news that they’re both missing children from history, kidnapped from their proper time period.  Before they can fully absorb this revelation, a time purist named JB zaps Chip and another boy, Alex, back to the fifteenth century, where they supposedly belong.  Determined not to lose their friends, Jonah nabes his sister. Katherine, grabs Chips arms just as he’s being sent away.  The result? Jonah and Katherine also end up in the fifteenth century, where they decidedly they do not belong.
Chips true identity is Edward V, king of England, and Alex is his younger brother, Richard, Duke of York.  But Chip is convinced that his uncle, Richard of Gloucester, plans to kill them and seize the throne for himself.
JB promises that if the kids can “fix time”, he will allow them to return to the present day.  But how can they possibly return home safely when history claims that Chip and Alex were murdered?