Normal Public Library provides many enriching events and resources for teens. Find items from our teen collections and helpful online resources.
Activities
We have lots of activities going on every month for teens to enjoy. Whether you are into technology, poetry, crafts, anime, or more, there is something for you at NPL!
Learn more about current activities here.
Teen Spaces
The library is a great place to meet up with friends or spend some time studying.
We hope you will check out our Teen Department next time you are at the library.
Teen Mobile Maker Space
Our Teen Mobile Makerspace is an area that encourages participation in hands-on collaborative learning, sharing, and creating through the use of technology and do-it-yourself materials. Teens, take a look at the makerspace during your next visit.
Thanks to our Giving Tuesday campaign in 2015, we are pleased to offer our Teen Mobile Makerspace.
Collection
The library has a fantastic collection of the latest books for teens and we work hard to maintain a great selection of graphic novels.
You will also find tons of music and movies to check out and a huge selection of media to download & stream.
Top Titles for Teens
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Love Me Tomorrow
When seventeen-year-old Emma wishes for proof that love is real, she starts receiving letters from her true love in the future and attempts to uncover the identity of the sender in the past.
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Love, Sivvy
A novel-in-verse follows Sylvia Plath through her high school and college years as she struggles between societal expectations, mental health challenges, and her fierce ambition to become a poet.
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A Practical Guide to Dating a Demon
Naomi, a studious scholarship student at a magical academy, accidentally summons a charming demon fiancé and must team up with him to uncover the source of mysterious magical disruptions in her city.
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Cope Field
A teen baseball star who "has it all"--looks, wealth, and a pro-MLB father--grapples with an impossible choice: reveal his abuse at the hands of his father and risk being separated from his younger brother in the foster care system, or remain silent and risk his brother experiencing that same abuse
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The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay
Seventeen-year-old Nick Carrington wants nothing more than to leave Greenwood, Oklahoma, behind and make a name for himself in the papers. But when tragedy strikes, dreams turn into a twisted reality. Forced to start anew in Harlem, only a letter of acceptance from the prestigious West Egg Academy is able to pull him back into the world.
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Freddie and Stella Got Hot
Best friends Freddie and Stella scheme to get back at Levi, their ex-friend-turned-queen-bee, by stealing a coveted award, but as their plan starts to work, Freddie realizes Stella has become the real mean girl, and only Levi can help stop her.
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It Lurks in the Night
Maya and her best friends' final Caribbean boat trip before graduation takes a dark turn when they are stranded on a mysterious island, and after one friend is found dead, they must confront dark secrets, betrayals, and the rumored supernatural forces tied to the island.
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Lost Girls of Hollow Lake
Haunted by a disastrous school trip where three of her classmates never returned, Evie and her friends must return to a deadly island to confront a sinister force hunting them and uncover the secrets that could cost them everything.
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To the Death
Two teens are pitted against each other in a magical duel for revenge, but they'll have to fight their growing attraction first.
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Goodbye and Everything After
A teen girl comes face to face with the ghost of her recently deceased dad when she ignores a strict Filipino superstition.
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Six of Crows
Book 1 in the Six of Crows series
Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first.
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Tower of Dawn
Book 6 in the Throne of Glass series
Chaol and Nesryn visit Antica hoping the legendary healers of the Torre Cesme can enable Chaol to walk again, and to persuade the rulers to ally with them to save Erilea.
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Queen of Shadows
Book 4 in the Throne of Glass series
No masters. No limits. No regrets. Aelin Galathynius takes her place as queen.
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Shadow and Bone
Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
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The Inheritance Games
Book 1 in the Inheritance Games series
When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
Outreach
Our Teen Librarian regularly visits McLean County's Juvenile Detention Center to introduce teens there to books that they might enjoy. She also visits schools in Normal during the students' lunch breaks to introduce them to great books through our Books & Bites program.
Explore & Learn
America's News
Black Freedom Struggle Website
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Creativebug
Creativebug.com offers award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists.