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The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Book one of 'The Inheritance Games' series

When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.

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Teen Library Council

Students in grades 6 – 12 can earn service hours at the library by joining our Teen Library Council! Our Teen Library Council meets monthly to discuss library and community projects, help plan programs, recommend books, and much more.

To register for an upcoming meeting, visit our online calendar. We ask that you fill out our Teen Library Council Application before attending your first meeting.

Questions? Give us a call at 630-868-7524.

AtoZ Maps

The library recently added AtoZ Maps to our database collection! AtoZ Maps is a great tool, whether you need it for a school project, or you're curious about the world now or in the past. Browse historical or current maps, flags of the world, and even try a few geography games.

Curious what other databases the library has available? Browse our full database list.

New Genealogy Resources

We’ve added new resources to help with your genealogy and family history search. Find stories, photos, and personal documents of those who served with Fold3, and access over 4,000 newspapers dating from the early 1700s to the 2000s with Newspapers.com

Visit our Genealogy page to find these databases, and to see a full list of genealogy and family history resources available through the Wheaton Public Library.

Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim

Beasts of a Little Land is an epic saga set during Korea’s tumultuous history of Japanese occupation and the fight for Korean independence.

A tall, masculine looking girl in a pink jersey with short, blond hair sits on the bleachers facing the reader. She has her backpack with her, is wearing black timberland boots, and has a plaid shirt wrapped around her waist.

Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin

Mara Deebly, in need of a team sport to prove she can be a team player, joins the football team and unintentionally starts a feminist movement in her highschool. Much to her and the boys' disgust, several other girls feel inspired by her decision and follow her onto the football team, where Mara get's lumped in with girls she feels are frilly, weak, and won't take the game seriously. As she tries to set herself apart from her new teammates, she and the other girls experience bullying and unfairness by even people on the team she had thought were her friends.

The Cousins by Karen McManus

After receiving an invitation to spend the summer with their estranged grandmother, the Story cousins arrive at her house only to discover that she is not there, and the longer they stay on the island, the more they realize their mysterious family history has some deadly secrets.

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Here’s the set-up of Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Noemi Taboada, a debutante livi

Pumpkin' by Julie Murphy

Pumpkin' by Julie Murphy
Book three in 'Dumplin'' series

Creating a drag-show audition tape that culminates in an unkind nomination for prom queen, an overweight and openly gay teen partners with a girl who has been nominated for prom king to embrace their true selves.

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson undertakes to hike the 2,200 mile Appalachian Trail that runs from Georgia to Maine. Bryson enlists the help of an unfit friend, Katz, who can barely tackle a staircase. Together they meander along the trail meeting other people with the same goal. Statistics are clearly against them.