TEEN VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Are you in the 6th grade or higher this year? Are you excited to help us with events at the library? Would you like to have some input on what teen activities we have at the library? Then our Teen Advisory Group may be a great fit for you! Join us for our monthly TAG group meeting on the 2nd Thurs of the month at 4pm (October-April). If you haven’t signed up to join yet, please follow this link to our form.
Many teens get jobs over the summer but don’t have much experience with interviews. We’re here to help! Make an appointment with our teen services librarian, Eric Knapp, to practice for the job interview of your choice. All he needs to know is your contact info and if you know where you’re applying, he can tailor his interview questions to that job. General practice interview questions can be used for those who don’t know yet where they’re applying. We’ll even give you guidance on your resume if you bring one!
To make an appointment, go to the teen services desk or use this link: Practice Interview Form
MONTHLY PROGRAMS
Try your hand at graffiti by making your mark on our Graffiti Bot! This cardboard construction’s sole purpose is to be painted, marked up, and drawn on by you. Graffiti Bot is a free-for-all so if there’s no empty space, just doodle over something else! Graffiti Bot is always changing, always growing and never looks the same twice!
MONTHLY DIY ACTIVITIES
This month’s Sound-Off Wall is all about superpowers. So tell which you prefer and why! Make your opinion heard on our sound-off wall!
Try out our Nintendo Switch 2 multiplayer games with your fellow gamers. We have Mario Kart World, Super Mario Party Jamboree, Kirby’s Air Raiders, and lots of original Switch games like Super Smash Bros and Just Dance. Bring your friends!
New board games, card games, and puzzles have been added to the Teen Den for individuals and groups to enjoy. There is also a Dungeons & Dragons beginner kit to learn and lead a game even if you’re new to it. Have fun with your friends, make new ones, or just do your own thing!
Come try your hand at our mini-golf! One hole only, so challenge your friends!
Make a unique bead creation to decorate your shoes, jackets, or backpack! Adorn your own clothing or give them to friends!
TEEN RESOURCES
Find great teen books!
Search 4,000+ books, audiobooks, and films from YALSA’s book awards and book lists.
While these books have been selected for teens from 12 to 18 years of age, the award-winning titles and the titles on YALSA’s selected lists span a broad range of reading and maturity levels. We encourage adults to take an active role in helping individual teens choose those books that are the best fit for them and their families.
The Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted on the Thursday of National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year. Readers ages twelve to eighteen will vote online between August 15 – October 15 here on the Teens’ Top Ten site.
6-12 GD TEACHER RESOURCES
If you would like a staff member to collect books, audiobooks, or movies for you on a particular theme, subject, or author, you will need to fill out a teacher collection request form two weeks in advance of when you want to pick-up the books.
Check out what we've been up to in the TEEN department lately!
TEEN COMMUNITY ART PROJECT
Last summer, teens illustrated 5×7″ mini-canvases in a bookshelf theme to add to our teen community art project “Bookshelf” collage. Come check it out!!!
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