Engineering Club: Thursday, October 6 at 7pm. Be a problem solver! Take on a new engineering challenge each week. Get creative, think outside the box, and hang out with other like-minded kids. Members can bring project ideas and we'll vote on the ones we want to do throughout the club.

Registration is for ALL 4 sessions 10/6, 11/3, 12/1 & 1/5. For grades 5-7.

Coming up for Teens and Tweens

Anime/Manga Club: Wednesday, October 12 at 4:30pm. Meet and hang out with lovers of all things anime! Activities will range from anime screenings to discussion of our favorite series, manga share and swap, anime-themed crafts, cosplay workshops, art trades and more!  We'll meet on the following dates in the Teen Area: 10/12, 11/9, 12/14, 1/11, 2/8, 3/8, 4/12, 5/10 & 6/14. For ages 12 and up.

Overbooked: A Teen Book Club: Monday, October 17 at 7pm. Have too much to do? Want to add something else to your plate? Join our book club, directed at the overscheduled teen! We'll discuss the book while munching on snacks. This month we'll be discussing Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert. Please pick up the book at the Main Desk. Registration is required. We'll meet on the following Mondays each month in the Teen Area: 10/17, 11/14, 12/19, 1/23, 2/13, 3/13, 4/24, 5/22 & 6/26.

7th/8th Grade Book Club: Tuesday, October 18 at 7:30pm. Join us for a book club for teens in grades 7-8 where we explore a new book each month!  Participants are encouraged to bring their own questions and ideas when we meet for the discussion. We will read Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick for 10/18. We meet once a month on the following dates: 10/18, 11/15, 12/20, 1/17, 3/21, 5/16 and 6/20.

Decorate A Cupcake! Friday, October 21 at 4pm. Create your own Halloween-themed cupcake masterpieces! Decorate, display, and enjoy your cupcake creations! For tweens and teens in grades 5-12. 

Teen MTG: Saturday, October 22 at 2pm. Want to meet up and play some Magic: The Gathering on a Saturday? We've found just the place, our Teen Area! This event is an in-person meetup for people to play. Please bring cards if you have them! We will meet once a month on the following Saturdays:10/22, 11/19, 12/17, 1/21, 2/11, 3/25, 4/29, 5/20 & 6/17.

Tween Graphic Novel Book Club: Tuesday, October 25 at 7pm. If you enjoy the pace, imagery and stories presented in graphic novels then this is the club for you! We’ll meet once a month on 10/25, 11/22, 12/27, 1/24, 2/28, 3/28, 4/25, 5/23 and 6/27. Registration (required) begins on Tuesday, October 4 and is for tweens in 5th to 7th grade only. When you register, you register for ALL 9 meetings. This month, we'll discuss Witches of Brooklyn by Sophie Escabasse. 

Teen Graphic Novel Book Club: Thursday, October 26 at 7pm. If you love comics and graphic novels, join us once a month as we discuss all things illustrated! Grades 8-12. Registration is required. This group will meet in the Teen Area. Books will be available for pick-up at the main circulation desk. Join us once a month on the following dates: 9/29, 10/27, 11/17, 12/15, 1/19, 2/16, 3/23, 4/27, 5/25 & 6/15. This month the group will discuss M is for Monster by Talia Dutton. 

Bad Movie Club: Halloween Edition! The Lost Boys (1987). Monday, October 31 at 6:30pm. Do you enjoy watching 'bad' movies with your family or friends? Do you enjoy talking about these 'bad' movies with other people? Once a month, join us and other like-minded teens to watch and discuss a bad movie. This month's bad movie will be: The Lost Boys (1987). Rated R, running time 97 minutes. Spooky snacks will be provided. Grades 7-12.

Celebrate Hispanic Graphic Novelists & Illustrators for

Hispanic Heritage Month!

Tween Reads

Isla to Island by Alexis Castellanos - In 1960s Cuba, Marisol’s home is no longer safe so her parents send her to Brooklyn. She’s faced with a dark and cold city along with learning a new language and adapting to her foster parents. Marisol starts to discover that home isn’t always about a place, but as simple as staying true to herself. 

Fantastic Tales of Nothing by Alejandra Green & Fanny Rodriguez - Nathan thinks he’s quite ordinary until he meets a creature named Haven. When Nathan realizes he has magical powers, it sets him and his unlikely group of friends off on a perilous quest across hearty terrain, creepy forests and ancient tombs. To save their land, the group must defeat a dark evil.  

Miles Morales: Shock Waves written by Justin A. Reynolds, illustrated by Pablo Leon - Miles Morales is Brooklyn’s Spider-Man. After he hears that the disappearance of a father at his school happens to be related to the corporation sponsoring Miles’ fundraiser for the victims of the Puerto Rico earthquake, Miles puts his spidey-senses to work to uncover the truth. 

Teen Reads

I’m a Wild Seed by Sharon Lee De La Cruz - In her memoir, De La Cruz shares the steps to undoing the patriarchal, colonial society on her own self-image, sexuality and freedom. She includes the people and things that shaped her identity and her definition of queerness.

Suncatcher by Jose Pimienta - Beatriz learns that a guitar may have the soul of her grandfather trapped in it. She thinks the only way to free him is to craft a flawless piece of music. This endless determination to craft the perfect song may come at the expense of her friendships, band and health. 

Juliet Takes a Breath written by Gabby Rivera and illustrated & adapted by Celia Moscote - As a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-America, Juliet comes out to her family the night before flying to Portland to intern with a feminist author. Her family’s reaction to her queerness is a disaster, and what’s even more upsetting, the author Juliet is interning with has a problematic definition of feminism which excludes women of color.