Flights of Imagination Picks for Teens

Adventure is in the air! This summer, let your imagination soar with a citywide reading challenge, fun-filled events, fantastic prizes and unexpected literary journeys. Spread your wings, turn the page and take flight—your adventure awaits at CLP! Check out these picks celebrating Flights of Imagination for teens. From traveling the world to flying a dragon through dreams, there’s something for every reader! 


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The Art Thieves

It’s the year 2052. Stevie Henry is a Cherokee girl working at a museum in Texas, trying to save up enough money to go to college. The world around her is in a cycle of drought and superstorms, ice and fire, but people get by. But it’s about to get a whole lot worse. When a mysterious boy shows up at Stevie’s museum saying that he’s from the future–and telling her what is to come–she refuses to believe him. But soon she will have no choice 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Hoopla. 


Breath of the Dragon: Breathmarked

Sixteen-year-old Jun, determined to restore his father’s honor despite not being breathmarked, secretly enters in the elite Guardian’s Tournament, where he discovers he is fighting for the country’s fate.  

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby. 


Dreamover

Two best friends becoming more than friends feels like a dream come true. But when one sleepover literally turns into a dream, will they ever want to wake up again? 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Hoopla. 


A Language of Dragons

In an alternate London in 1932, a girl breaks a truce between dragons and humans, and to save her family she must work at Bletchley Park as a codebreaker, in a story about language, loyalty, love and redemption. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby, in eAudio on Libby, and in eAudio on Hoopla.  


The Love Interest

When a superhero emerges in her hometown to fulfill a prophecy, seventeen-year-old Jenna Ray uses her newfound and unwanted status as his love interest to find her missing mom, and along the way discovers her town is in danger. 


Make Good Trouble: Discover Movements That Sparked Change

Explore famous moments of global activism throughout history with more than 70 narrative stories, including the Freedom Summer Project of 1964 and Greta Thunberg’s first School Strike for Climate, in a book with tips for how kids can get involved. 


Morgana and Oz, Vol. 1: A Webtoon Unscrolled Graphic Novel

Morgana Winterberry belongs to a long line of witches, and Oz to the rival vampire clan. When their families get together to negotiate peace after years of conflict, things go catastrophically wrong. The vampires accuse the witches of poisoning them and using dark magic, there’s a magical explosion, Morgana’s grandfather goes missing–and Morgana might have accidentally transformed Oz into a cat. 


North

A boy who can heal from any injury is destined for a lot of suffering. Orphaned and illegally enslaved, it seems like things can’t get worse for Kai, a skilled fighter with a cynical attitude and rapid healing powers. But when Kai has a chance encounter with a fearless princess, his dangerous adventures are just beginning. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby. 


On the Wings of La Noche

Seventeen-year-old Noche, who serves as an avian guide to the afterlife, suffers inner turmoil between falling for a new boy in town and letting go of her late girlfriend’s soul.  

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby. 


(S)Kin

Fifteen-year-old Marisol is the daughter of a soucouyant. Every new moon, she sheds her skin like the many women before her, shifting into a fireball witch who must fly into the night and slowly sip from the lives of others to sustain her own. But Brooklyn is no place for fireball witches, with all its bright lights, shut windows, and bolt-locked doors… 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby. 


Who Owns the Moon? : And Other Conundrums of Exploring and Using Space

Are you ready for your first trip to the Moon? Today’s teens may travel to multiple planets and moons in their lifetimes. This book is a primer on what to know for a future in space. It combines technology and science with law and policy for a fascinating look at a very timely subject. 


A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel

Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing–how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death’s threshold to restore the balance.