2024 - 2025

Book of the Week

This book of the week feature was written by CSW Library Ambassador Gillian Lamb '26.
OCTOBER 10, 2024

VOTES OF CONFIDENCE: A YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO AMERICAN ELECTIONS by JEFF FLEISCHER

WHAT IT'S ABOUT 

Fleischer delivers deep background knowledge on the American Government and how the voting system works. There is detailed discussion of various US political parties in and the importance of participation through voting.

GOOD TO KNOW

WHERE TO CHECK IT OUT

This book is available to check out from our physical collection, as well as on ebook.

OCTOBER 3, 2024

dead things are closer than they appear by robin wasley

WHAT IT'S ABOUT 

During a magical apocalypse, which has unleashed monsters and murderers, an ordinary teen teams up with a ragtag crew of would-be heroes to save the world as she knows it.

GOOD TO KNOW

WHERE TO CHECK IT OUT

This book is available to check out from our physical collection, as well as on ebook and in audio.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

BURN DOWN, RISE UP by VINCENT TIRADO

WHAT IT'S ABOUT 

When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.

GOOD TO KNOW

WHERE TO CHECK IT OUT

This book is available to check out from our physical collection, as well as on ebook and in audio.

This book of the week feature was written by CSW Library Ambassador Gillian Lamb '26.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

shut up, this is serious by caroline ixta

WHAT IT'S ABOUT 

Belén Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend. There's also her nerdy, super-Catholic best friend, Leti, who finds herself pregnant senior year. Life is messy. Shut up, This is Serious is a fierce, intimate examination of friendship, chosen family, and the generational cycles we must break to become our truest selves.

GOOD TO KNOW

WHERE TO CHECK IT OUT

This book is available to check out from our physical collection, as well as on ebook and in audio.

This book of the week feature was written by CSW Library Ambassador Gillian Lamb '26.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The one that got away with murder by trish lundy

WHAT IT'S ABOUT 

An edge of your seat thriller about a teen girl who comes face to face with her dark past in order to help catch a murderer before she becomes the next victim.

GOOD TO KNOW

WHERE TO CHECK IT OUT

This book is available to check out from our physical collection, as well as on ebook and in audio.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

THROWBACK by MAUREEN GOO

WHAT IT'S ABOUT 

A Gen Z Korean American girl gets stuck in the '90s with her teenaged mother in this fresh, funny adventure full of heart, humility, humor, and time-crossed romance.

GOOD TO KNOW

WHERE TO CHECK IT OUT

This book is available to check out from our physical collection and in audio.