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2021 Friends Scholarship Applications due March 15
The Friends of Lake Forest Library Scholarships are grants of $2,000 awarded to graduating seniors (residents of Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, or Knollwood) who clearly demonstrate a passion for reading. The Friends of Lake Forest Library inaugurated this scholarship in 2003 to recognize students whose l...
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New YA Books
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The Enigma Game -
Skyhunter -
These Violent Delights -
A Deadly Education -
Orbiting Jupiter -
Renegades -
The Immortalists -
Midnight Sun -
Rebel Spy -
I Kissed Alice -
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (a Hunger Games Novel) -
You Should See Me in a Crown -
Thank You for Coming to My TED Talk -
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin -
Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young Readers -
I'll Be the One -
Girl, Serpent, Thorn -
Goddess in the Machine -
Girl, Unframed -
Sadie -
Dorothy Must Die -
Shout -
Matched -
Lovely War -
The Running Dream -
Once & Future -
American Royals -
Serious Moonlight -
My Hero Academia -
XL -
The Darkest Minds -
Dear Ally -
The Fountains of Silence -
Wicked Saints -
Angel Mage -
Voices -
A Treason of Thorns -
Other Words for Smoke -
Verify -
You'd Be Mine -
Let's Call It a Doomsday -
Road Tripped -
Wayward Son -
Descendant of the Crane -
Pet -
The Devouring Gray -
Monstress -
Shadow and Bone
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