Our doors may be closed for now (see here), but there's still plenty of digital awesomeness to explore and enjoy! The following list pulls together the many library member and free online resources that'll keep your mind active and alert.
It's hard to be stuck at home--but there's plenty of stuff to support your mental and physical health. Check out some of the links below and say ✋ 'bye, boredom'.
★ This list will be continously updated! Last edited: 4/29/2020
📖 Celebrate Black History Month: read novels by black authors or check out works dedicated to black art, culture, and history! 📖
The following books (and more) are now on display in our YA area, available for check-out:
Fiction
1. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Akata Witch
transports the reader to a magical place where nothing is quite as it
seems. Born in New York, but living in Aba, Nigeria, twelve-year old
Sunny is understandably a little lost. She is albino and thus,
incredibly sensitive to the sun. All Sunny wants to do is be able to
play football and get through another day of school without being
bullied. But once she befriends Orlu and Chichi, Sunny is plunged in to
the world of the Leopard People, where your worst defect becomes your
greatest asset. Together, Sunny, Orlu, Chichi and Sasha form the
youngest ever Oha Coven. Their mission is to track down Black Hat
Otokoto, the man responsible for kidnapping and maiming children. Will
Sunny be able to overcome the killer with powers stronger than her own,
or will the future she saw in the flames become reality?
2. Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly.
She didn’t say much in that first interview with detectives, and the
media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died
while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old
daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But
did she do it? She wouldn’t say.
Mary survived six years in baby
jail before being dumped in a group home. The house isn’t really
“home”—no place where you fear for your life can be considered a home.
Home is Ted, who she meets on assignment at a nursing home. There
wasn’t a point to setting the record straight before, but now she’s got
Ted—and their unborn child—to think about. When the state threatens to
take her baby, Mary must find the voice to fight her past. And her fate
lies in the hands of the one person she distrusts the most: her Momma.
No one knows the real Momma. But who really knows the real Mary?
3. A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
The first time the
Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to
battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland
with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a
curfew.
Life in real-world Atlanta isn't always so simple, as
Alice juggles an overprotective mom, a high-maintenance best friend, and
a slipping GPA. Keeping the Nightmares at bay is turning into a
full-time job. But when Alice's handsome and mysterious mentor is
poisoned, she has to find the antidote by venturing deeper into
Wonderland than she’s ever gone before. And she'll need to use
everything she's learned in both worlds to keep from losing her head . .
. literally.
Hello and please lean back as I commemorate the official opening of not only The Bellya blog, but also an entire network meant to keep you both well informed and shivering with antici--uh, reasonably entertained.
*unfurls (tiny) golden flag*⚐
I am Crystal Anderson, your YA librarian!
I am sadly without cat ears in real life. I will probably have a couple stacks of books around me; it's my natural habitat and I take it with me wherever I go. ( ◕ ‿ ∩ )
Please feel free to approach me online or in person if you need help finding a book or an answer, want to make a recommendation for the YA collection, are excited to become involved at the library in some way (events--or, coming soon, volunteer opportunities & TAB, Teen Advisory Board), if you'd like to share an idea, and/or you just want to introduce yourself!
But back to the blog:
"Bellevue Public Library, Young Adult Department" is kind of a mouthful, yeah? And it would make a hilariously long web site address. Hence, we need something short and catchy! Something with a nice ring to it, a name you can claim...
That was my thought process. I hope you like it! Personally, I'm fond of any title that has a "bell" in it. It evokes a range of chiming and gonging noises, all sound effects I like to apply to the everyday. ♫ LOL Now, here's what The Bellya social media can do for you: ⚫ receive event announcements--like our regular Gamefestsand YA Matinees, AND special programs, such as Craftzilla! and Teen Tech Week!
⚫ see photos and videos of events, displays, and behind-the-library-scene looks! ⚫ read book reviews and recommendations (mine and I hope, one day, yours)!
⚫ have many, many ways to share ideas--surveys, comments, email--and make a change!
⚫ get news as it happens (snow closings, event cancellations, giveaway winners, etc.)--particularly if you use apps!
⚫ laugh at cute, witty, funny, often library-related things (on Tumblr especially)! Library humor FTW!
>>>> Por ejemplo, Pusheen with a book blanket: ⚫ form a community--online and/or in person--of techtacular, book-loving, game-playing, craft-making, potentially fandomtastic awesomeness! Be right in the middle or comfortably around the edge; extroverts and introverts welcome! ⚫ & much more!
But don't forget to come back! The giveaways are farther down within this post.
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