April's Teen/Tween Book Club will be meeting, as always, on the last Wednesday of the month. For April, we will meet on Wednesday, April 30 at 4 p.m. at the Headquarters Library, and for this month we voted to read The Quince Project by Jessica Parra.
You can find these books in our catalog in various formats - please feel welcome to choose your copy in ebook or physical version. Join us in person at the Headquarters Library Teen Space, again on Wednesday, April 30 at 4 p.m. to discuss! Also, create an account and join us on our Goodreads group for updates on the next selection and any discussions you'd like to initiate. Our book club works best for tweens and teens aged 11 to 17.
Interested in other book clubs? The Alachua County Library District has several. You can find more information on our Book Clubs page.
The Quince Project
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Castillo Torres, Student Body Association event chair and serial planner, could use a fairy godmother. After a disastrous mishap at her sister's quinceañera and her mother's unexpected passing, all of Cas's plans are crumbling. So when a local lifestyle-guru-slash-party-planner opens up applications for the internship of her dreams, Cas sees it as the perfect opportunity to learn every trick in the book so that things never go wrong again.
The only catch is that she needs more party planning experience before she can apply. When she books a quinceañera for a teen Disneyland vlogger, Cas thinks her plan is taking off... until she discovers that the party is just a publicity stunt--and she begins catching feelings for the chambelán.
As her agenda starts to go way off-script Cas finds that real life may be more complicated than a fairy tale. But maybe Happily Ever Afters aren't just for the movies. Can Cas go from planner to participant in her own life? Or will this would-be princess turn into a pumpkin at the end of the ball?