Library
Welcome to the LTHS Library Learning Commons!
A Public School Library For All:
- This public school library space provides resources & books for a wide variety of interests to engage all students and staff on this campus.
- Every family has different views and we strive to provide a wide array of perspectives and interests by offering something for everyone to learn and enjoy.
- If a parent wants to limit their child's reading choices, that is not only the parent's right, but also their responsibility to communicate that decision with their own child and their child's librarian.
Never hesitate to ask a Librarian!
If we don't have the information, we can find it together!
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At LTISD Libraries, our mission is to connect, inspire, and empower our community through knowledge, learning, and access to diverse resources.
We strive to create an inclusive and welcoming environment where everyone feels valued and encouraged to explore, discover, and grow.
Through our extensive collection of books, digital media, and educational programs, we aim to foster lifelong learning, critical thinking, and creativity.
Whether you're seeking information, entertainment, or a quiet space to reflect, the LTHS Library Learning Commons is here to serve you.
Library Learning Commons Memories
2025 Tayshas Top 10 Reading List
All Alone With You
By Coombs, Amelia Diane 2023
To boost her college applications, seventeen-year-old Eloise, a loner girl struggling with her mental health, volunteers at a senior support center where she meets a dynamic elderly woman and a perpetually cheerful boy who challenge her to step out of her comfort zone.
All That's Left to Say
By Lord, Emery 2023
Reeling from the death of her cousin, Hannah concocts a risky plan to enroll in her cousin's elite private school and find who gave her the lethal pills, but the deeper Hannah goes the more she risks losing everything.
Dungeons and Drama
By Boyce, Kristi 2024
Musical lover Riley has big aspirations to become a director on Broadway...but when Riley takes her mom's car without permission, she's grounded and stuck with the worst punishment: spending her after-school hours working at her dad's game shop. Riley can't waste her time working...so she convinces Nathan--a nerdy teen employee--to cover her shifts and, in exchange, she'll flirt with him to make his gamer-girl crush jealous...Soon, Riley starts to think that flirting with Nathan doesn't require as much acting as she would've thought.
Looking for Smoke
By Cobell, K.A. 2024
When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren's missing sister, Mara thinks she'll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation. Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found murdered. Because the four members of the Giveaway group were the last to see Samantha alive, each becomes a person of interest in the investigation. And all of them--Mara, Loren, Brody, and Eli--have a complicated history with Samantha. Despite deep mistrust, the four must now take matters into their own hands and clear their names. Even though one of them may be the murderer.
Our Shouts Echo
By Adia, Jade 2024
Sixteen-year-old Niarah's perspective on life changes when she joins a hiking/camping club and befriends Mac Torres and his wanderlust-driven friends, but as summer draws to a close and her new friends leave, existential dread challenges her new outlook.
Strong Like You
By Simpson, T.L. 2024
Walker Lauderdale hasn't cried once since his daddy went missing. And even though everyone says he's dead, Walker won't give up hope. He knows his father is out there, somewhere, cutting a wild trail through the Ozarks like always. But when a relative threatens to kick Walker and his momma out of the family home, Walker realizes he has no choice but to look for his daddy—a search that leads him straight to a drug-addled and dangerous man named Lukas Fisher. While attempting to balance life as a normal fifteen-year-old boy and star player on the football team, Walker begins a desperate search across the hills of the Ozarks for the man who, for better or worse, taught him everything he knows about strength.
That's Not my Name
By Lally, Megan 2024
Told in two voices, a seventeen-year-old battered and bruised girl struggles to remember who she or the man claiming to be her father is while seventeen-year-old Drew stops at nothing to find his missing girlfriend.
The Half-life of Love
By Bourne, Brianna 2023
Flint Larson has known when he was going to die since he was eight because of the Half-Life Institute, and he is spending the last forty-one days quietly with his divorced parents; September is a vibrant aspiring scientist who wants to cure "half-life", especially since she has met Flint--but their time together is getting short.
Wander in the Dark
By Emill, Jumata 2024
Two brothers must come together to solve the murder of the most popular girl in school after one of them is caught fleeing the scene of her death.
Where You See Yourself
By Forrest, Claire 2023
Effie Galanos' goals for her senior year include her navigating her way through her high school that is not really wheelchair-friendly, getting into the perfect college, and getting her crush Wilder to accompany her to the prom--but by spring she is beginning to see herself entirely differently.
She dreams of getting out of Minneapolis and going to college in NYC, but with her needs as a wheelchair user, is she setting her dreams too high? When she finds out that her crush, Wilder, is applying there too, it seems like one more sign from the universe that it's the right place for her. As Effie navigates her way through a year of admissions visits, senior class traditions, internal and external ableism she starts to learn that sometimes growing up means being open to a world of possibilities you never even dreamed of.