Over the summer, our YA book discussion group met to discuss Tenderness by Robert Cormier. The YA collection meets the needs of specific school assignments, such as Read a novel about the Civil War, or, Read a biography over 100 pages. Nonfiction titles purchased are to meet school assignments. Our reference collection includes materials on chemical elements, jazz musicians, biomes, drugs, Supreme Court cases, and more. Teens in Haverhill also read for pleasure.
Paperbacks circulate fairly well, especially genre and series books.
Lurlene McDaniel and R.L. Stine are popular. Hardcovers circulate if the book is on a reading list, has won an award, or if the author is popular. Fliers and booklists for the above mentioned displays and assignments are appended. We get requests for them, and instead of purchasing, we Interlibrary loan them. We own a few comic collections of Garfield and Far Side books.