Upcoming Teens Events
Volunteer Opportunities
Geneva Park District
Affordable Party Tent Rental
Atlas Chicken Shack
Batavia Container
Charlestowne 18
Culvers-North Aurora
Eagle Flexible Packaging
El Taco Grande
Fermi Labs Natural Areas
Forest Preserve District of Kane County
Fox Valley Special Recreation Association
Goldfish Swim School
Heinz Bros. Greenhouse
i9 Sports
JC Penney-North Aurora
Kane County Cougars
Kimmer’s Ice Cream
Northern Illinois Food Bank
Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital
Pheasant Run
Prairie Path Cycles Batavia
Raging Waves Water Park
SciTech Hands On Museum
St. Charles History Museum
St. Charles Park District
Batavia Park District
Red Oak Nature Center
ACT / SAT Practice Test Information
Get a feel for what testing day will be like by taking a free practice SAT test, courtesy of Princeton Review. Bring water, #2 pencils, and an energy snack, as well as an SAT-approved calculator. Scores will be available online within a week of taking the test. Registration is required.
Check our calendar for the next test.
Reference Database Information
Batavia Public Library subscribes to a variety of reference databases, which are useful for doing research.
Library Databases
New Teen Fiction
Batavia High School Required Reading Choices
| Book Title | Author |
| A List of Cages | Robin Roe |
| Illegal | Eoin Colfer |
| Positive | Paige Rawl |
| Lockdown | Alexander Gordon Smith |
| Book Title | Author |
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
| Girl in Translation | Jean Kwok |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| Book Title | Author |
| A Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds |
| Unwind | Neal Shusterman |
| Between Shades of Gray | Ruta Sepetys |
| Laughing at My Nightmare | Shane Burcaw |
Book Title | Author |
A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini |
Book Title | Author |
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer | James L. Swanson |
Mr. Lincoln’s High Tech War | Thomas B. Allen |
Photo By Brady | Jennifer Armstrong |
Book Title | Author |
American Sniper | Kyle McEwen |
The Forbidden Schoolhouse | Suzanne Jumaine |
Galileo’s Daughter | David Sobel |
The Pursuit of Happyness | Chris Gardner |
Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand |
Undaunted Courage | Stephen Ambrose |
Wild | Cheryl Strayed |
The Demon in the Freezer | Richard Preston |
Into Thin Air | Jon Krakauer |
No Time to Lose | Peter Piot |
The Perfect Storm | Sebastian Junger |
Salt | Mark Kurlansky |
Stiff | Mary Roach |
Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell |
Outliers | Malcolm Gladwell |
Moneyball | Michael Lewis |
Branded | Alissa Quart |
The Innovators | Walter Isaacson |
1421 | Gavin Menzies |
Argo | Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio |
Behind Rebel Lines | Seymour Reit |
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Dee Brown |
City of Scoundrels | Gary Krist |
Devil in the White City | Erik Larson |
Eight Men Out | Eliot Asinof |
Flags of our Fathers | James Bradley and Ron Powers |
Washington’s Spies | Alexander Rose |
The Beauty Myth | Naomi Wolf |
The Cheating Culture | David Calhoun |
Columbine | Dave Cullen |
Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
Life, Animated | Ron Suskind |
The Paradox of Choice | Barry Schwartz |
When March Went Mad | Seth Davis |
Bad Or, The Dumbing Down of America | Paul Fussell |
Book Title | Author |
The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation | Jonathan Hennessey |
Book Title | Author |
How to Read Literature Like a Professor | Thomas Foster |
Book Title | Author |
The Underground Railroad | Colin Whitehead |
The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr |
The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Richard Flanagan |
Sing Unburied Sing | Jesmyn Ward |