Teen services

Events for teens

Tabletop Gaming Meetup
Close-up of game board, with several multi-sided dice

First Wednesdays: For Grades 6-12: Dungeons & Dragons, Honey Heist and more! Join us play a variety of tabletop games with other teens. Never played before? That’s no problem! We’ve got all the supplies and knowledge you need to jump right in. We meet on the 1st Wednesday of each month from 4-5 p.m. 

More ongoing teen events

Event
 Days 
Description
Weekly Teen Films
 Fridays at 3:30pm at Menlo Park Library

Wednesdays at 5:30pm at Belle Haven Library
Teen Film Fridays and Teen Film Wednesdays feature a different movie each week—and snacks are provided! Each film is rated PG-13 or lower. Drop in and find out what the movie of the week is, and use the suggestion box in the Teen Zone to request movies you’d like to see in the future.
Teen Advisory Group (TAG)
  

Want to earn volunteering hours and be involved in your Menlo Park community? Join other teens in grades 7-12 in our Teen Advisory Group (TAG). TAG shares ideas on our library's teen programs, contests and more. The TAG group meets twice a month at the Menlo Park Library. Fill out the online application. 

 

 

Upcoming events for teens

 

Teen Resources

Looking for a good book?

YA Black Lives Matter  YA Celebrating Latina/o Lives  YA fairy tales retold
YA fantasy YA graphic novels YA historical fiction
YA manga YA middle school list YA science fiction

 

Recommendations by teens!

Kanopy for movies to stream films without paying a subscription.
  • East Side Sushi (Drama) (Rated PG)
  • Loving Vincent (Documentary)
  • The Horse Boy (Documentary)
Overdrive for ebooks which has a mix of genres of YA books.
  • The Thousandth Floor (Katharine McGee)
  • The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
  • Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Ransom Riggs)
  • Ten (Gretchen McNeil)
  • Desert Dark (Sonja Stone)
  • P.S. I Still Love You (Jenny Han)
  • The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)

Databases for school

  • Academic Search Complete has more than 6,400 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,700 peer-reviewed journals. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887.
  • Britannica School and Escolar is made for today’s digital classroom, with extensive, up-to-date information sources in English and Spanish.
  • High School Supersearch is a multi-database search of several student resources below.
  • Historical Abstracts and Full Text (World) covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
  • History Reference Center (U.S. and World) offers 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, 140 history periodicals, 74,000 historical documents, 81,000 biographies of historical figures, 113,000 historical photos and maps, and 83 hours of historical video.
  • Points of View Reference Center contains resources that present multiple sides of an issue, helping students develop persuasive arguments and essays, understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
  • ProQuest Databases provide a single source for scholarly journals, newspapers, reports, working papers and datasets along with digitized historical primary source documents and more than 450,000 eBooks. 
  • Referencia Latina is a comprehensive Spanish-language resource offering 49,000 encyclopedia entries, 50,000 images, 2,500 health reports, 100 reference books, dozens of general interest magazines, and daily updated articles from a dozen prominent newspapers from 10 Latin American countries.
  • Science Resource Center is a comprehensive research database of content from 860 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc.
  • New York Times to stay up-to-date on current news.
  • Tutor.com for live school work help.

 

Volunteer with TAG

Teen Advisory Group

The Teen Advisory Group (TAG) is a rolling-membership volunteer group committed to the promotion and improvement of the library’s teen programs and materials. The Teen Advisory Group contributes ideas for library programs, activities and displays.

Meetings for the Teen Advisory Group are generally held every first and third Thursday of the month, from 4:30–5:30 p.m. Additional meetings may be held as-needed. Prospective members should be in grades 7–12.

Check out what the M-A Chronicle wrote about TAG in this article!

 

Library Teen Advisory Group (TAG) seeks new members

The Library Teen Advisory Group (TAG) is accepting applications for new members. This is a rewarding extracurricular activity for middle and high schoolers. Participating teens in grades seven-12 meet twice a month and earn volunteer hours at the library with a variety of different activities such creating colorful book displays, planning fun events, and helping with library projects.

Apply now

Contact us

Ella Hadrovic
Librarian
Email
650-330-2533

Rose Waldman
Library and Community Services Supervisor
Email

650-330-2516

 

 

 

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