The Teen Summer Reading club begins Saturday, June 21! The theme this year is environmentalism so the program is called: Turn Over a New Leaf@Your Library. You can go to any Pickering Library to register and then read! If you want a great environmental book to read, check out these titles:

California Blue by David Klass
John Rodgers, has to face three troubling facts. First, his father has been diagnosed with leukemia. Second, John has discovered a new species of butterfly and wants to preserve it but is up against the opposition of his entire town, including his parents. And finally, John has fallen in love with his high school biology teacher, who does not entirely rebuff his attentions.

Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse
Nyle Sumner, 13, and her grandmother are completely surrounded by the grotesque results of an accident at a nuclear-power plant. Because of the accident, Nyle's cousin Bethany has radiation poisoning. Then Gran does the unthinkable: she takes in two fugitives who were exposed to the worst of the radiation, Miriam Trent and her son, Ezra.

Z for Zacariah by Robert O’ Brian
Ann Burden is sixteen years old and the sole survivor of a nuclear war. For the past year, she has lived in a remote valley with no evidence of any other survivors. But the smoke from a distant campfire is shows that someone else is still alive and making his way toward the valley. Who is this man? What does he want? Can he be trusted? Both excited and terrified, Ann soon realizes there may be worse things than being the last person on Earth.

Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
Adams has recorded the adventures of the most endangered animals in the world like the komodo dragon, northern white rhinoceros and the rodrigues fruit bat. He moves rapidly from informal, laugh-out-loud descriptions of his travels to serious pleas for awareness and conservation of all animals.

Watership Down by Richard Adams
The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos.

Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
The government’s Wildlife service believes that wolves are slaughtering the arctic caribou, and the assigns naturalist Farely Mowat to investigate. Mowat is dropped alone onto the frozen tundra, where he begins his mission to live among the howling wolf packs and study them. Mowat discovers not a den of marauding killers but a courageous family of skillful providers and devoted protectors of their young.

Dead Water Zone by Kenneth Oppel
16-year-old Paul tries to find his genetically stunted younger brother Sam in the polluted ruins of Watertown, where Sam is trying to cure himself with toxic "dead water" that alters the metabolism of those who drink it.

The Golden Aquarians by Monica Hughes
Walt Elliot goes with the father he hasn't seen for years to the planet Aqua, where he discovers that his father's project threatens the existence of a highly intelligent native species.

River Rats by Caroline Stevermer
Nearly twenty years after the holocaust called the Flash has destroyed modern civilization, Tomcat and a group of other orphans face danger as they steer an old steamboat over the toxic waters of the Mississippi River.

Eva by Peter Dickinson
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.

Spud Sweetgrass by Brian Doyle
Torn between his mother's continuing grief over his late father and his own happiness about a new romance, Spud Sweetgrass becomes involved in a group endeavor to expose the person who is polluting the Ottawa River.

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki
Nausica, a young princess, has an empathic bond with the giant insects that evolved as a result of the ecosystem's destruction. Growing up in the Valley of the Wind, she learned to read the soul of the wind and navigates the skies in her glider. Nausica and her allies struggle to create peace between kingdoms torn apart by war, battling over the last of the world's natural resources.

The Beasties
When fifteen-year-old Doug and his younger sister Colette move with their parents to a forested wilderness area, they encounter some weird creatures whose lives are endangered.

Memory Boy by Will Weaver
Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions in their city.

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.