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Reaching Teen Readers: 5 Creative Ways to Build a Great Stories Club

Text reads: 5 Creative Ways to Build a Great Stories Club. Photos show people reading together, a person reading with a dog and a photograph of a group of people reading together as seen from above.

The opening chapter of author Renée Watson’s young adult novel “Piecing Me Together” is two simple lines: I am learning to speak. / To give myself a way out. A way in.

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A Weekly Escape Into Stories: The Great Stories Club at a Youth Correctional Facility

Black and white photograph shows two teens laughing at a table with collage materials.

Ask anyone who works with teens, inside or outside the library, and they might tell you that 13- to 18-year-olds are a tough crowd to reach.

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