Plano Reads: Selfie Book Talk, Episode #17
Your Plano Library staff are virtually recommending their favorite reads.
Below is the list of titles, with additional read-alikes you can check out on Overdrive and the Libby App.
See all Book Selfies posts here.
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Recommended by: Amanda at Haggard Library; Print, eBook
Genre: Teen Fiction
Description from Novelist: “A society wife-in-training has an uncomfortable awakening about her strictly polarized society after being recruited into a band of rebel spies and falling for her biggest rival.”
Read-Alikes:
- Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
- Internment by Sahira Ahmed
- Grace and Fury by Tracy Banghart
Geekerella by Ashley Poston
Recommended by: Ellen at Schimelpfenig Library; Print, eBook
Genre: Teen Fiction
Description from Novelist: “A devoted fan of a classic sci-fi television series risks the ire of her evil stepsisters by entering a contest to win an invitation to a ball where she would meet her favorite actor, a teen star who would prove he is more than just a dumb heartthrob.”
Read-Alikes:
- Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan
- Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett
- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk
Recommended by: Amy at Haggard Library; Print, eBook
Genre: Adult Fantasy
Description from Novelist: “A romantic fantasy set in a magical Regency England. A sorceress with the ambition to become the world’s first great sorceress is bound by familial duty to be married off.”
Read-Alikes:
- The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
- Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan
Recommended by: Stephanie at Davis Library; Print
Genre: Teen Graphic Novel
Description from Novelist: “Supernatural mysteries and suburban drama collide in the early hours after the Halloween of 1988 for four twelve-year-old newspaper delivery girls.”
Read-Alikes:
- The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado
- The woods. by James Tynion IV
- Rocket Girl by Brandon Montclare
From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess by Meg Cabot
Recommended by: Lauren at Davis Library; Print, eBook
Genre: Junior Fiction
Description from Novelist: “A middle-grade spinoff of The Princess Diaries, about the long-lost sister of Mia Thermopolis, Princess of Genovia.”
Read-Alikes:
- Double Vision by Tia Mowry
- Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
- 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
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