Celebrate Teen Read Month and Rocktober by bedazzling your favorite book with rhinestones and exchanging recommendations with other teens. Bring a book from home or choose one from our selection of new and used teen books. For grades 6 - 12.
Does your reading need more sparkle? Decorate a book cover with tiny rhinestones to celebrate Teen Read Month. Bring a book from home or make one of ours shine. All other materials provided by the library. While supplies last. For teens ages 12 - 18.
You’re invited to a bookmark-making party! Teens, join us for a fun workshop to create a watercolor, confetti, or origami bookmark, then pick out your next favorite book to keep and add to your home library. For teens ages 12 - 18.
Celebrate Teen Read Month by learning to create your own blackout poetry using pages copied from banned and challenged books & then create your own meaningful bookmark!
For ages 13 - 17
Can you really judge a book by its cover? This Teen Read Month, join us to learn about different genres of teen fiction while sharing your love for reading with your fellow teens. Make your own book bag to keep. For teens ages 13 – 17.
Join us to celebrate Teen Read Month! Create your own fantasy figurines inspired by your favorite fantasy book characters using air-dry modeling clay! For teens ages 13-17.
Do you love to tell all your friends about the book you just read? Celebrate Teen Read Month by decorating a personalized book journal to log all your five-star reads, favorite authors, and more! For teens ages 13 – 17.
Craft your very own miniature literary world in a cardboard diorama that will fit between the books on your bookshelf. Bring your spooky scene to life with miniature materials like pumpkins, books, potions, special lighting, and more! For ages 13-17
Every October, the library celebrates Teen Read Month. This month we are having a silent book club. Bring a book or pick up a book here and read silently with peers. Learn what the library has to offer teens. For ages 13 – 17. Registration required.
Join us for a teen screening of the film "10 Things I Hate About You". Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" gets a face-lift in this amusing adaptation set in a Seattle high school.
For teens ages 13 – 17.
Celebrate Teen Read Month and some of the most historically banned books by learning to create your own blackout poetry using pages copied from banned and challenged books. For ages 12 - 18
October is Teens Read Month! We will be highlighting the scariest horror books while engaging in traditional gourd arts. Learn how pumpkins became such an iconic part of this holiday while you paint your own pumpkin. For teens ages 12 - 17.
Are you a teen interested in making a difference in your library and community? Join the Manhattan Beach Library Teen Advisory Board (TAB)! This will be a special Teen Read Month edition of TAB. For ages 12 - 17.
Read the groundbreaking novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and imagine being trapped inside a room with the Greasers and the Socs where solving riddles, clues, puzzles, number patterns, and codes is the only way to escape. For Ages 14-17.
Blackout poetry, or redacted poetry, has been used by poets since the 18th century and is created when a poet covers someone else's text to reveal select words that create a new poem. For teens ages 13 – 17.
Join us to bling out your favorite book! Bring your own book or choose one of ours to bedazzle with gem diamond art techniques. You'll get a chance to share and learn about a variety of titles. For teens, ages 13 - 17.
You’re invited to a bookmark-making party! Teens, join us for a fun workshop to create a watercolor, confetti, or origami bookmark, then pick out your next favorite book to keep and add to your home library. For teens ages 12 - 18.