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Page to Screen (Teen Version) - Summer Adventure 2025

Read the book then watch the story come to life on the screen. These books have been adapted into movies or television series. Some picks are currently in production. "AC Library invites everyone to participate in our 2025 Summer Adventure. Complete activities, reading, and more to receive a book gift and prize drawing entries. Start building your own Summer Adventure June 1 at any AC library location (including our mobile library stops) and online at aclibrary.org/summer."

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22 items

  • (Movie) When incrementally more violent attacks overshadow life at Osborne High, an intense hunt for the killer leads to the revelation of astonishing secrets.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017] — Fiction PERKINS,S
  • (Amazon, in production) This brilliant and heartbreaking novel tells the story of a prestigious family living on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts. Full of love, lies, secrets, no shortage of family dysfunction, and a shocking twist…
    Book, 2014New York : Delacorte Press, [2014] — Fiction LOCKHART,E
  • (Netflix) Katherine and Michael, along with various friends and acquaintances in suburban New Jersey, discover the possibilities and limitations of love and personal commitment.
    eBook, 2007New York : Simon Pulse, 2007 — EBOOK OVERDRIVE
  • (Netflix, in production) In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised…
    Book, 2009New York : Simon Pulse, 2009 — Science Fiction WESTERFELD,S
  • (Netflix) Meeting on the ledge of their school's bell tower, misfit Theodore Finch and suicidal Violet Markey find acceptance and healing that are overshadowed by Finch's fears about Violet's growing social world.
    Book, 2015New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2015] — Fiction NIVEN,J
  • (Theaters, July 18) Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery person seeking revenge.
    eBook, 2010New York : Little, Brown, 2010 — EBOOK OVERDRIVE
  • (Netflix) High school sweethearts Clare and Aidan spend the night before they leave for college reminiscing about their relationship and deciding whether they should stay together or break up.
    Book, 2016New York ; Boston : Poppy, Little, Brown and Company, 2016 — Fiction SMITH,J
  • (Movie) After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — Fiction THOMAS,A
  • (Movie) Charlie is shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward; he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charlie attempts to navigate his way through the uncharted territory of…
    Book, 2019New York : Gallery Books, [2019] — Fiction CHBOSKY,S
  • (Movie) Resolving to keep her head down through graduation when a factory closing divides the adults and kids in her small community, Quinn is caught in a dispute between tradition and progress before a homicidal corporate mascot begins targeting…
    Book, 2020New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] — Fiction CESARE,A
  • (Amazon) Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
    Book, 2009New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2009 — Fiction HAN,J
  • (Netflix, in production) The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. Almost everyone. Having grown up in the small town that was consumed by the…
    Book, 2020New York : Delacorte Press, [2020] — Fiction JACKSON,H
  • (Netflix) Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance. But love…
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2020 — TGN HEARTSTOPPER v.1
  • (Amazon) On the eve of her marriage to a stranger, sixteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey is swept in a conspiracy to usurp the throne from her cousin.
    Book, 2016New York : HarperTeen, an imprint HarperCollins Publishers, [2016] — Fiction HAND,C
  • (Movie and Television Series) Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is…
    Book, 2007New York : M.K. McElderry Books, c2007 — Fiction CLARE,C
  • (Movie) 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 change-averse Simon has to find…
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015] — Fiction ALBERTALLI,B
  • (Netflix) In a small Texas town where high school football reigns supreme, Viv, sixteen, starts a feminist revolution using anonymously-written zines.
    Book, 2017New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2017 — Fiction MATHIEU,J
  • (Netflix) Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protege of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can…
    Book, 2013New York : Square Fish, 2013 — Science Fiction BARDUGO,L
  • (Netflix) In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — Fiction SILVERA,A