Never Too Old: a Young Adult Book Club for Adults meets the 1st WEDNESDAY of the month to enjoy the relevance and diversity of young adult and middle grade books and authors. All ages are welcome. Our next meeting is Wednesday, June 7th at 5pm. Email Beth@LopezLibrary.org for more information.
June 7th – YA or Juvenile Adaptations (of adult books)
These are nonfiction or biography titles. We have over 15 print titles and many are on Libby plus their may be additional ones on Libby or Hoopla. Here are two examples. Click on the YA Adaptations booklist for more titles.
July 5th – Graphic Novels – There is a large diversity within this genre, from biographies to mythology to adaptations of classics (such as The Secret Garden and A Wrinkle in Time) to titles with beautiful art to nature/environmentally-themed titles. Though this genre is out of many of our comfort ranges, it is very popular among youth, and so will be good to familiarize ourselves with.
August 2nd – The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera – “Habia una vez . . . There lived a girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra’s world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children, among them Petra and her family, have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet, and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity’s past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard, or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again?” Available in hardcover and on both Libby & Hoopla.
Click here for more information and a summary of the May meeting.