Events Calendar

Are you a teen in high school who loves reading? Join Teen Book Club. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, we’ll meet discuss books, have a snack, and do related activities. Try to read the book before each meeting so we can talk about it.

Free book at registration while supplies last. Sponsored by Friends of the Sherwood Public Library.

Books read in Teen Book Club may contain mature content.

Email us at askusSPL@sherwoodoregon.gov or call 503-625-6688 to register and get your book to read before the club meeting.

Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Dates: Oct 2024-May 2025,
2nd Wednesday of each month

• Oct 9th, 2024
• Nov 13th, 2024
• Dec 11th, 2024
• Jan 8th, 2025
• Feb 12th, 2025
• Mar 12th, 2025
• Apr 9th, 2025
• May 14th, 2025

Place: Sherwood Public Library Community Room, First Floor Lobby

Book List:
Oct 9th, 2024: Jackaby, by William Ritter
“Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary-including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain the foul deeds are the work of the kind of creature whose very existence the local police seem adamant to deny.”

Nov 13th, 2024: War Girls, by Tochi Onyebuchi
“The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky. In a war-torn Nigeria, battles are fought using flying, deadly mechs and soldiers are outfitted with bionic limbs and artificial organs meant to protect them from the harsh, radiation-heavy climate. Across the nation, as the years-long civil war wages on, survival becomes the only way of life. Two sisters, Onyii and Ify, dream of more. Their lives have been marked by violence and political unrest. Still, they dream of peace, of hope, of a future together. And they’re willing to fight an entire war to get there.”

Dec 11th, 2024: I Hunt Killers, by Barry Lyga
“Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious “Dear Old Dad,” but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father’s wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town’s newest murderer, ‘The Impressionist.'”

Jan 8th, 2025: Dispatches From Parts Unknown, by Bryan Bliss

“Julie knows it’s unusual that a professional wrestler runs a constant commentary on her life that only she can hear. But grief can be awfully funny sometimes. National Book Award nominee Bryan Bliss delivers a thought-provoking, one-of-a-kind novel about how to tread the line between moving on and holding on.”

Feb 12th, 2025: Dread Nation, by Justina Ireland
“When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania– derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. Now laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. But it’s not a life Jane wants. When families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy… and the restless dead are the least of her problems.”

Mar 12th, 2025: Everything We Never Had, by Randy Ribay
“…an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships. Told in multiple perspectives, Everything We Never Had unfolds like a beautifully crafted nesting doll, where each Maghabol boy forges his own path amid heavy family and societal expectations, passing down his flaws, values, and virtues to the next generation, until it’s up to Enzo to see how he can braid all these strands and men together.”

Apr 9th, 2025: Night Owls, by A.R. Vishny
“In this thrilling paranormal YA romance debut steeped in folklore, two estries—owl-shifting female vampires from Jewish tradition—face New York’s monstrous underworld to save the girl one of them loves with help from the boy one of them fears before they are, all of them, lost forever.”

May 14th, 2025: Kindling, by Traci Chee
“After the war is over, seven outlawed kindlings–elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives–must confront their pasts, their trauma and their grim fates to reclaim who they once were and fight one last time.”