FREE REVIEW BOOKS!
On Tuesdays after school (around 3:45) go to the Teen Room on the 2nd floor of the Central Library and select your book. That’s all there is to it. See you there. Send your review to kaf2@ci.berkeley.ca.us. Or turn them in on Tuesdays in the Teen Room. With your permission, reviews will be published here.
2090 Kittredge Street / 510-981-6100
Buttons Buttons Buttons
Wednesday, June 29 from 2:00-3:30pm
Make your own one-inch pins!
Chocolate Extravaganza
Wednesday, July 13 from 2:00-3:00pm
Taste different kinds of chocolate, play chocolate-themed games, and win
chocolate prizes.
Musical Instruments – Hands-on
Wednesday, July 27 from 2:00-3:00pm
Learn about instruments from around the world. Better yet, play with them.
Hands-on Henna
Tuesday, August 16 from 2:00-3:30pm
The ancient body art of mendhi. Each participant will leave the workshop with a small design and their own henna kit. Registration required. Call 981-6135.
Teen Playreaders
Most* Wednesdays at 4:00pm
A fast-paced reader’s theater group. Refreshments provided. All teens welcome! *Call 981-6133 first.
1901 Russell Street at MLK / 510-981-6260
Duct Tape Wallets
Saturday, July 9 from 2:00-3:30pm
We’ve got rolls and rolls of tape. The rest is up to you.
Buttons Buttons Buttons
Thursday, August 11 from 2:00-3:30pm
Make your own one-inch pins!
Games!
Most* Fridays from 3:30-5:00pm
Challenge your friends at a variety of games, from Nintendo Wii to cards to board games. *Call first!
1125 University Ave. / 510-981-6270
Buttons Buttons Buttons
Thursday, July 14 from 2:00-3:00pm
Make your own one-inch pins!
Musical Instruments – Hands-on
Wednesday, August 10 from 2:00-3:00pm
Learn about instruments from around the world.
Better yet, play with them.
Saturday May 7th is Free Comic Book Day, and the Berkeley Public Library wants to help you celebrate!
The festivities will begin at the South Branch from noon – 2:30. We will be playing games, drawing our own comics, and enjoying some delicious refreshments.
Then we’ll be at the Central Library from 3:30 – 5:30 where we’ll do our own Comic Book Remixes and make buttons featuring our favorite characters!
And of course Free Comic Book Day means we’ll be giving away tons of FREE COMICS, raffling off prizes, and more! So come join us this Saturday, May 7th, at a library near you.
Free comic books are intended for teens only. Limit 3 comics per person.
Teen Review by Shyenne
Delirium
By Lauren Oliver
Type of book: Fiction
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
I was wowed by this book. I read it faster than I have read any other book in my life. No, I didn’t read it. I devoured it. I read it like I was a starving man and the book was an eight course meal. It was not at all what I expected. It wasn’t just another utopia/dystopia book. It wasn’t just some book about a girl finding out the society she lived in wasn’t the perfect world she thought. This book was over and beyond that. The character showed a lot of growth, and thought like a real person would, not at all like some imaginary, fictional, badly fabricated character in a book. She had depth, opinions and reactions that were believable. The book was very heart-breaking also, I actually felt a tear well up in my eyes.
Teen Review by Stephany
Trapped
By Michael Northrop
Type of book: Suspense
Seven students stuck at school in the middle of a snowstorm. Nothing can go wrong, right? Wrong. First the electricity goes out; then the heat. Though they have food, it is cafeteria food. Tensions run high, and they soon have to rely on each other for their survival.
The book was mind-numbingly boring. There are only so many things that can be done in a school. The one question that I have is why was there no adult present? At first, I was quite interested in seeing what would happen to the teens, but after three chapters of describing how cold it was, I lost interest.
Teen Review by Stephany
Beauty Queens
By Libba Bray
Type of book: Fiction
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Every year millions of people watch beauty pageants. Well, what if the plane transporting the beauty queens crashed on a deserted island? Only thirteen of the original fifty aspiring Miss Teen Dream survive the crash. This book follows their rather hilarious way of surviving on the island – beauty queen style, of course. They all have to work together, not only to survive but to also take down the evil Ladybird Hope. Then reality-TV pirates show up….
First of all, I loved this book! It was entertaining from the actual plot lines to the commercials that are downright hilarious. The characters had their own special personalities except for the minor characters that don’t play a part in the plot. This book is a departure from the rather serious supernatural tone of Libba Bray’s Gemma Doyle trilogy, but she still excels in keeping the readers at their seats’ edge.
City of Berkeley YouthWorks and Berkeley Public Library have teamed up to offer to 2 resume-writing workshops.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
4:00—5:30 pm
Central Library at 2090 Kittredge St.
3rd floor Electronic Classroom
Please bring with you:
A flash drive or floppy disk
Contact info for previous employers
Contact info for volunteer supervisors
For more info
call Berkeley Public Library at 510-981-6135
call YouthWorks at 510 981-4970.
or email bplteens@ci.berkeley.ca.us
teenlibrarian | 
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