For teens in grades 6 and up

This month, we’re reading Space Boy Vol. 1 by Stephen McCranie:

To Amy, everyone has a flavor. Her mom is the flavor of mint–sharp and bright. Her dad is like hot chocolate–sweet and full of gentle warmth. Amy lives on a mining colony in out in deep space, but when her dad loses his job, the entire family is forced to move back to Earth. She says goodbye to her best friend Jemmah and climbs into a cryotube, where she will spend the next thirty years frozen in a state of suspended animation, hurtling in a rocket toward her new home. Her life will never be the same, but all she can think about is how when she gets to Earth, Jemmah will have grown up without her.

When Amy arrives on Earth, she feels like an alien in a strange land. The sky is beautiful, but gravity is heavy, and the people are weird. Stranger still is the boy she meets at her new school–a boy who has no flavor.

The book is available for pickup in the Teen Room.

Graphic Novel Book Club will meet in the Youth Services Program Room.

Sign up is required for this program. Registration will begin on May 1. Please complete the sign up form below.

Contact Nicole: nperrault@minlib.net | 781-475-5735