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Sponsors for 2022

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For more information about our sponsors, please visit their web pages:

St. Bernards Medical Group

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The Children’s Clinic

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The Survivor Wants to Die at the End Adam Silvera view item
Up in Smoke Nick Brooks view item
Graphic Novel Builder Edward Ross and Aysha Tengiz view item
The Glittering Edge Alyssa Villaire view item
Out of Air Rachel Reiss view item
When We Go Missing April Henry view item
The Whisperwood Legacy Jo Schulte view item
Ours to Tell: Reclaiming Indigenous Stories Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger view item
Parable of the Talents Octavia E. Butler view item
Lovely Dark and Deep Elisa A. Bonnin view item
Wake the Wild Creatures Nova Ren Suma view item
The Graveyard Club: Fresh Blood R.L. Stine and Carola Borelli view item

May 2025 Book Recommendations - YA

Fearless Lauren Roberts view item
Watch Me Tahereh Mafi view item
The Notorious Virtues Alwyn Hamilton view item
Holy Terrors Margaret Owen view item
Where Shadows Meet Patrice Caldwell view item
All the Stars Align Gretchen Schreiber view item
Love in 280 Characters or Less Ravynn K. Stringfield view item
Boys with Sharp Teeth Jenni Howell view item
My Cat Is Such a Weirdo Vol. 6 Tamako Tamagoyama view item
Wish Upon a K-Star Kat Cho view item
The Floating World Axie Oh view item
On Again, Awkward Again Erin Entrada Kelly view item

April 2025 Book Recommendations - YA

All the Hidden Monsters Amie Jordan view item
Our Infinite Fates Laura Stevens view item
I Am Made of Death Kelly Andrew view item
She Waits for You Beyond the Dark Kristen Simmons view item
What Wakes the Bells Elle Tesche view item
Maya in Multicolor Swati Teerdhala view item
How to Survive a Slasher Justine Pucella Winans view item
The House No One Sees Adina King view item
Camila Núñez's Year of Disasters Perez Miriam Zoila view item
Sunrise on the Reaping Suzanne Collins view item
Lovely Dark and Deep Elisa Bonnin view item
When We Ride Rex Ogle view item

March 2025 Book Recommendations - YA

Is This My Final Form? Paperback Gerstler, Amy view item
After image George, Jenny view item
The girl who became a rabbit Menzel, Emilie view item
Glory, too : poems Grimes, Nikki view item
The holy & broken bliss : poems in plague time Ostriker, Alicia view item
Sons of salt Salvatierra, Yaccaira view item
The space between men Willis, Mia S. view item
Body's a bad monster Perez, Rowan view item
Exit opera : poems Addonizio, Kim view item
Go figure Armantrout, Rae view item
Mojave ghost : a novel poem Gander, Forrest view item
The ghost forest : new and selected poems Hahn, Kimiko view item
A vessel born to float : poems Watkins, Yazmin Monet view item
Water, water Collins, Billy view item
The widow's crayon box : poems Peacock, Molly view item
Black Buffalo woman : an introduction to the poetry and poetics of Lucille Clifton Ali, Kazim view item
Find me as the creature I am : poems Yoon, Emily Jungmin view item
Latino poetry : the Library of America anthology view item
Load in nine times : poems Walker, Frank X. view item
Anishinaabe songs for a new millennium Rendon, Marcie R view item
A history of Western music : poems Kleinzahler, August view item
I don't want to be understood Espinoza, Joshua Jennifer view item
Old stranger Larkin, Joan view item
Sonnets for a missing key : and some others Everett, Percival view item
Opium and ambergris Dekeersgieter, Colin view item
Fabulosa Rigby, Karen view item
I love hearing your dreams : poems Zapruder, Matthew view item
Scattered snows, to the North Phillips, Carl view item
Cloud missives : poems Allen, Kenzie view item
Kitchen apocrypha : poems Emilio, Gregory view item
Magic enuff : poems Stringfellow, Tara M view item
Solutions for the problem of bodies in space : poems Barnett, Catherine view item
But I don't feel empowered Chan, Suri view item
Fugitive/refuge Metres, Philip view item
The invention of the darling : poems Lee, Li-Young view item
Pleasure principle : poems Cravens, Madeleine view item
Proverbs of limbo : poems Pinsky, Robert view item

Celebrate National Poetry Month

After Life Gayle Forman view item
After Life Gayle Forman view item
King: A Life Jonathan Eig view item
King: A Life Jonathan Eig view item
Breath of the Dragon: Breathmarked Fonda Lee view item
Breath of the Dragon: Breathmarked Fonda Lee view item
Dating and Dragons Kristy Boyce view item
Dating and Dragons Kristy Boyce view item
The Queen's Spade Sarah Raughley view item
The Queen's Spade Sarah Raughley view item
The Rival Emma Lord view item
The Rival Emma Lord view item
Better Than Revenge Kasie West view item
Better Than Revenge Kasie West view item
(S)Kin Ibi Zoboi view item
(S)Kin Ibi Zoboi view item
The Beasts We Bury D.L. Taylor view item
The Beasts We Bury D.L. Taylor view item
Capitana Cassandra James view item
Capitana Cassandra James view item
Dreamover Dani Diaz view item
Dreamover Dani Diaz view item
All Better Now Neal Shusterman view item
All Better Now Neal Shusterman view item

February 2025 Book Recommendations - YA

The fifth domain: defending our country, our companies, and ourselves in the age of cyber threats Clarke, Richard A. view item
Cyber crisis: protecting your business from real threats in the virtual world Cole, Eric view item
8 steps to better security: a simple cyber resilience guide for business Crawley, Kim view item
Human hacking: win friends, influence people, and leave them better off for having met you Hadnagy, Christopher view item
Bug Bounty Bootcamp: The Guide to Finding and Reporting Web Vulnerabilities Li, Vickie view item
Cyberjutsu: cybersecurity for the modern ninja McCarty, Ben view item
No safe harbor: the inside truth about cybercrime— and how to protect your business Sangster, Mark view item
Click here to kill everybody: security and survival in a hyper-connected world Schneier, Bruce view item
The cyber attack survival manual: tools for surviving everything from identity theft to the digital Selby, Nick view item
Cybersecurity for dummies 2022 Steinberg, Joseph view item
Privacy is power: why and how you should take back control of your data Véliz, Carissa view item

Cybersecurity Virtual Business Kit

Make My Wish Come True Rachael Lippincott, Alyson Derrick view item
The Party Natasha Preston view item
Dust Alison Stine view item
The Whispering Night Susan Dennard view item
Chasing Eternity Alyson Noël view item
I'm Here James J. Crist, Jomike Tejido view item
Michael Vey 10: The Colony Richard Paul Evans view item
Darkly Marisha Pessl view item
Dead Below Deck Jan Gangsei view item
Castle Swimmer, Volume 1 Wendy Martin view item
Girlmode Magdalene Visaggio, Paulina Ganucheau view item
Thief of the Heights Son M., Robin Yao view item

December 2024 Book Recommendations - YA

Midnights with You Clare Osongco view item
ONE PIECE 107 Eiichiro Oda view item
Skyshade Alex Aster view item
Thunder City Philip Reeve view item
I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call Jamison Shea view item
Dead Girls Don't Dream Nino Cipri view item
Flopping in a Winter Wonderland Jason June view item
Where the Library Hides Isabel Ibanez view item
Teen Titans: Starfire Kami Garcia view item
Witch of Wol Sin Lake Lena Jeong view item
Illustrated History of Urban Legends Adam Allsuch Boardman view item
Legend of the White Snake Sher Lee view item

November 2024 Book Recommendations - YA

A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants Rebecca E. Hirsch view item
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . .: A Love Story Jason Reynolds view item
The Glass Girl Kathleen Glasgow view item
The Stolen Heir Holly Black view item
The Magic You Make Jason June view item
The Teen Breakup Survival Guide Lenora M. Ziegler view item
Clock Striker, Volume 2 Issaka Galadima view item
Nothing Like the Movies Lynn Painter view item
Sally's Lament: A Twisted Tale Mari Mancusi view item
Killer House Party Lily Anderson view item
This Dark Paradise Erin Luken view item
The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley Melissa Marr view item

October 2024 Book Recommendations - YA

Thirteenth Child Erin A. Craig view item
Pick the Lock A. S. King view item
Rabbit and Juliet Rebecca Stafford view item
Lies We Conjure Sarah Henning view item
We Are Hunted Tomi Oyemakinde view item
Poems for Tortured Souls Liz Ison view item
Monstrous Kind Lydia Gregovic view item
Fairy Godmother an Enchanters Tale Jen Calonita view item
Songlight Moira Buffini view item
The Champions Kara Thomas view item
Ultimate Driving Book Emma Carlson Berne, Shaw Nielsen view item
Desert Echoes Abdi Nazemian view item

September 2024 Book Recommendations - YA

Jupiter Rising Gary Schmidt view item
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 4 Mokumokuren view item
My Salty Mary Cynthia Hand view item
Wisteria Adalyn Grace view item
Death at Morning House Maureen Johnson view item
Ash's Cabin Jen Wang view item
Medici Heist Caitlin Schneiderhan view item
Fyrebirds Kate Armstrong view item
The Dark We Know Wen-Yi Lee view item
Mysterious Ways Wendy Wunder view item
Return to Sender Lauren Draper view item
Of Her Own Design Birdie Willis view item

August 2024 Book Recommendations - YA

Reckless Lauren Roberts view item
Break to You Neal Shusterman Debra Young Michelle Knowlden view item
Grandest Game Jennifer Lynn Barnes view item
Girls Who Burn M. K. Pagano view item
How to Die Famous Benjamin Dean view item
It's Only a Game Kelsea Yu view item
Sunrise Nights Jeff Zentner view item
Not about a Boy Myah Hollis view item
Bless 2 Yukino Sonoyama view item
Ready or Not Andi Porretta
One Piece, Vol. 106 Eiichiro Oda view item
Mirror of Beasts Alexandra Bracken view item

July 2024 Book Recommendations - YA

Looking for Smoke K. A. Cobell view item
Four Eids and a Funeral Faridah Abike-Ilyimide Adiba Jaigirdar view item
Past Present Future Rachel Lynn Solomon view item
My Hero Academia Kohei Horikoshi view item
Icon and Inferno Marie Lu view item
Sleep Like Death Kalynn Bayron view item
Children of Anguish and Anarchy Tomi Adeyemi view item
Cat + Gamer Volume 5 Wataru Nadatani view item
Blue Lock 13 Muneyuki Kaneshiro Yusuke Nomura view item
Twelfth Knight Alexene Farol Follmuth view item
Heiress Takes All Emily Wibberley Austin Siegemund-Broka view item
Six More Months of June Daisy Garrison view item

June 2024 Book Recommendations - YA

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