What to Read Next…

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“What shall I read next? Watch? Stream?”

 

Do these questions haunt you? Well, have no fear. Scroll through this page of thematic book and movie lists to prevent you from running out of good media to consume on your free time. The “Book-to-Movie” section also includes a list of teen books made to movies or shows that are available now on certain streaming channels (Netflix, Disney+, etc.).

Please take a look through these lists below, and click on a title to learn more. Click HERE to be led to OverDrive, the wondrous land of our digital books, comics, and audiobooks where you can search for these titles.*


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Young Adult New Arrivals

Browse these titles that are new (or at least new-to-us)!

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Celebrate & Learn: Black History Month

Fiction – Stories by black authors and/or starring black characters.

Non-Fiction & Biographies – True stories about famous black people and about the trials and triumphs black people have endured and fought for throughout history.

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Fairy Tales and Retellings

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Book-to-Movie Titles

Did you dare watch the movie without reading the book first? Now’s the time to read the book and find out which was better! Many of these titles are available now on OverDrive. This list is also important to those who need to wash the Percy Jackson movie from their minds forever by reading the series again. We’ve got your back.

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List of Book-to-Movie Titles Free on Streaming

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Good Titles on Tough Topics

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Historical Fiction

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Spooky Books and Movies

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Feel the Beat!

These titles have elements of rhythm and music woven into the plot.

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“Stuck @ Home” eCollections

 

Click HERE to discover popular teen titles in our OverDrive collection that are available to you now. No holds! Titles available now include Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give and Richard Adams’s Watership Down.

Click HERE to dive into our Marvel Comic collection on OverDrive. Give comics a try. As Captain America would say, “I could do this all day.” (We’re pretty sure he was referring to reading comics and not battling himself after time traveling…)

*Need your library card number to begin your splendid OverDrive journey? Please e-mail Teen Librarian Katy at kwuerker@ipswichlibrary.org or Head of Circulation Laura Hoffmann at lhoffmann@ipswichlibrary.org to get your library card number.

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Can’t find a title in our collection that you think we should own? Questions? Please contact Teen Librarian Katy Wuerker at: kwuerker@ipswichlibrary.org or (978) 356-6648.

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