Teen Services

Monday, August 26 OR Tuesday, August 27 • 7-8:45 pm Location | Iowa Community Center, 338 N Iowa Ave  It's back! Preparation for the Friends Murder Mystery Play are underway. We are searching for our cast of characters, no experience needed! We hope to see you there. Registration is not required. [...]

Monday, August 5 • approx. 8 pm All ages, under 12 with adult Location | Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park, near Kenilworth Ave & Villa Ave Bring a lawn chair and a picnic blanket to enjoy a movie outdoors on the big screen. This week's movie is The Secret Life of Pets (© Universal Pictures, 2016: PG,… [...]

Did you read any of the following choices for the 2019 Teen Choice Book Award? Vote for your favorite from now until June 2nd at EveryChildaReader.net/vote. The winner for the Teen Book of the Year will be announced at BookCon in New York City this summer. The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton “Camellia Beauregard is a… [...]

The following sixteen books are set to release as motion pictures in 2019. Read the stories in print if you haven't already, before venturing to watch the movies in theaters. The list includes multiple classics, along with bestsellers and award-winners. You can click on the title to check a book's availability and place it on… [...]

Checkout the following teen books featured on Publishers Weekly’s Best Children's and YA Books 2018. The list includes multiple National Book Award finalists and this year's winner, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo. Click on the title to see if a book is available at our library and to place a copy on hold. The Assassination of… [...]

Below are the 2018 goodreads readers' choice awards. Have you read any of the winners? If you haven't come check one or three out from the library. [caption id="attachment_25897" align="alignnone" width="160"] Fiction[/caption] [caption id="attachment_25898" align="alignnone" width="160"] Mystery & Thriller[/caption] [caption id="attachment_25901" align="alignnone" width="160"] Historical Fiction[/caption] [caption id="attachment_25902" align="alignnone" width="160"] Fantasy[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_25933" align="alignnone" width="160"]… [...]

Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give is in the spotlight again with the release of the motion picture adaptation on October 6th, starring Amandla Stenberg as Starr Carter. The award-winning book is about Starr as she witnesses the police shooting of her childhood friend, Khalil, a sixteen-year-old African American boy, and how this leads her to… [...]

Did you read any of the following books featured on this year's National Book Awards Longlist for Young People's Literature? If not, grab a copy from the library. Click on the title for item location and place a hold on the item if it is not available at the Villa Park Public Library. Winners will… [...]

This year marks 200 years since the release of Frankenstein and the classic Gothic novel continues to have a hold on our imagination. Checkout the following fiction and nonfiction books inspired by or related to Mary Shelley and Frankenstein. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="200"] Boy Robot by Simon Curtis[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="202"] Clay by David Almond[/caption] [caption id=""… [...]

The following books have been adapted as television programs in 2018. You can read the book as you wait for your favorite show to be available on disc or streaming. Click on the covers below for book descriptions and item location information. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="201"] The Cuckoo’s Calling aired as a part of C.B.… [...]