2024-2025 Teen Winter Reading Challenge Book Bingo
Teens, join us for the Winter Reading Challenge Book Bingo (PDF)! From Sunday, December 1st to Friday, February 28th. Bingo card is also available to pick up at the library.
Lincoln Award
The Lincoln YA Awards list is available for 2023! Get to the library to check one out.
The Abe Lincoln Book Award is an annual award given to the author of the book voted most outstanding by students in grades nine through twelve in participating Illinois schools.
Rebecca Caudill Award
The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award is an annual award given to the author of the book voted most outstanding by students in grades four through eight in participating Illinois schools.
Cloud Library
The 3M Cloud Library app is available for Harrisburg District Library patrons to download e-books and e-audiobooks for free! All you need is your Harrisburg District Library card number and 4-digit PIN. The app is available for free download to iOS and Android devices. The Cloud Library has fiction and non-fiction for kids, teens, and adults.
https://www.yourcloudlibrary.com/
*Choose Illinois Heartland Library System when prompted to “Find Your Local Library.”
Hoopla
The Hoopla app is available for Harrisburg District Library patrons to download e-books, e-audiobooks, movies, TV shows, and music for free! All you need is your Harrisburg District Library card number and 4-digit PIN. The app is available for free download to iOS and Android devices. There are items available for all ages, with no wait times. Download the item immediately for easy access or stream online.
*Sign up with an email and password, choose your library, accept the terms and conditions, then enter your library card number and 4 digit PIN
Accelerated Reader Bookfinder
Search for books to find the AR Level and points value.
If the book is on this website, there is an AR test for it at your school!
Goodreads
Keep track of the books you’ve read and the books you want to read! See what your friends are reading and be a part of the world’s largest community of readers!
Fantastic Fiction
A great website where you can search for your favorite authors and easily see all of the books they have written. Plus, find all of your favorite series in order!
Ms. Meg’s Pick of the Month
Everything is Poison by Joy McCullough
Available to order through interlibrary loan.
Carmela Tofana, the daughter of a real-life poisoner, Giulia Tofana, discovers the dark secrets and dangerous remedies hidden within her mother’s apothecary in 17th-century Rome.
Lynda’s Pick of the Month
Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Available at our library in print (YA ALB #1) and as both an eBook and audiobook on the Hoopla app.
Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised.
Emily’s Pick of the Month
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Available at our library in print (YA AND), as an eBook and audiobook on the Cloud Library app, and as an audiobook on the Hoopla app.
14-year-old Mattie Cook and her family navigate the devastating yellow fever epidemic that sweeps through 1793 Philadelphia, facing loss, hardship, and the need to survive in a city turned frantic with disease.
Evan’s Pick of the Month
Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Available at our library in print (YA BAR #1) and as an audiobook on the Cloud Library and Hoopla apps.
Independent auto mechanic Sawyer Taft, estranged from her family, is offered a six-figure contract by her grandmother to participate in debutante season, hoping to uncover the identity of her father.
Hadleigh’s Pick of the Month
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Available in print at our library (YA MEA #1) an as an eBook on the Cloud Library app.
Dhampir guardian-in-training Rose Hathaway and her Moroi friend Lissa,a vampire princess, are forced back to St. Vladimir’s Academy after being on the run, where they face danger, forbidden romance, and the threat of the Strigoi, the most dangerous vampires.
Emma’s Pick of the Month
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Available in print at our library (YA THO #1), as an eBook on the Hoopla app, and as an audiobook on the Cloud Library app.
16-year-old Starr Carter witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood friend Khalil by a police officer, forcing her to navigate the aftermath and speak out against injustice in her community and the nation.