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Newton Free Library This Week's Teen and Tween Events November 6 - 19, 2023

Schools and Libraries

November 8, 2023

From: Newton Free Library

Rainbow Macrame
Tuesday, November 7 at 3pm

Join us on a special early release day to macrame. We'll macrame one of our favorite optical phenomena, a rainbow!

Registration required

Anime/Manga Club
Wednesday, November 8 at 4:30pm

Meet and hang out with lovers of all things anime!

5th/6th Grade Book Group
Tuesday, November 14 at 7pm

This month: In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall.

Grades 5-6

Magic: The Gathering
Wednesday, November 15 at 6:30pm

Play Magic: The Gathering on the first and third Wednesday of each month in our Teen Area. Please bring cards if you have them!

Teen Graphic Novel Book Club
Thursday, November 16 at 7pm

If you love comics and graphic novels, join us once a month as we discuss all things illustrated!

Grades 8-12

Registration required

Coming Up for Teens and Tweens

7th/8th Book Group
Tuesday, November 21 at 7:30pm

Registration required

Slime Science!
Wednesday, November 22 at 3pm

Registration required

Spotlight on Native American Heritage Month!  

Tween

We Still Belong by Christine Day - Wesley has a plan for Indigenous Peoples’ Day as well as asking her crush to a dance. That all goes wrong – until she finds herself supported by the love of her indigenous community at an intertribal powwow.

In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall, III - 11-year-old Jimmy McClean is teased for his fair skin tone. On a trip with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, Jimmy learns more about his Lakota heritage and visits significant places in the life of Crazy Horse, the 19th-century Lakota leader and warrior.

Mascot by Charles Waters & Traci Sorrel - Written in multiple points of view, this novel follows six middle school students from different backgrounds and beliefs, as they learn about identity, tradition and what it means to make changes when their school mascot is perceived as racist.

Teen

Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jenny Ferguson - Working at the Pink Mountain Pizza, three teens-Berlin, Cameron, and Jess find their weekend taking unexpected turns, forcing them to acknowledge the paths that led them to Pink Mountain and how much they need one another.

My Good Man by Eric Gansworth - Brian, a 20-something Indigenous reporter, sets out to uncover the truth of a mysterious assault, and navigate the life he once abandoned at the Tuscarora reservation.

Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich Smith - Strange things start happening at night near a rural attraction, culminating in a creepy man stalking a young indigenous woman, which leads Hughie Wolfe and his friend to discover the truth to protect themselves and the community.