Photos After Dark Teen Photography Contest Winner!
Congratulations to McGreal Duffy, age 15, for her lovely night-time shot of Brighton's Mill Pond! To see all entries in this photo contest, please check out the album on the Teen Scene's Facebook page.
Mill Pond Under the Night Sky
Tuesday, May 28
Teen Writers' Workshop
Poets, Songwriters, Storytellers, and Dreamers, bring your original work and thoughts about writing. Meet with Mike Ball, award-winning humorist. Teens 6-12th Grade. Drop-ins welcome. Call 810-229-6571 x227 for more information.
Wednesday, May 29
Teen Advisory Board
TAB members at the Brighton District Library help plan teen programs and events, promote cool books, movies, and music, and earn volunteer credit, too! Pizza is provided. We accept new members every May. Ages 11-18.
Tuesday, June 4
Teen Writers' Workshop
Poets, Songwriters, Storytellers, and Dreamers, bring your original work and thoughts about writing. Meet with Mike Ball, award-winning humorist. Ages 11-18. Drop-ins welcome. Call 810-229-6571 x227 for more information.
This week's session is serving as a Teen Poetry Slam and will be held at the Peaberry Bean & Beats in Whitmore Lake. So come out and share your poetry or cheer on other members of the group. Can't wait to see you there!
Sunday, June 9
Springfest
Celebrate Spring! Join the fun! Enjoy magic with Colors the Clown and her petting farm, balloon art by Tim Thurman, magic by Jeff Wawrzaszek, free face painting and ice cream treats. All ages. Registration for Summer Reading Program available for ages 2 through adult.
Tuesday, June 11
Teen Craft - Rockin' it Out
Design unique stone artwork with some fun graphic transfers. They make great decorations for your room or garden! No experience is required to participate and the Library supplies all materials. Register beginning Tuesday, May 28. Ages 11-18.
Friday, June 14
Teen Movie - Beautiful Creatures (PG-13)
Bring a friend and check out a newly released movie at the Library! Snacks and beverages will be provided. This month's movie is Beautiful Creatures (PG-13), based on the popular book by Kami Garcia. Register beginning Friday, May 30. Ages 11-18.
Tuesday, June 18
Muggle Quidditch
Learn the basics of Harry Potter's favorite magical game from members of the University of Michigan Quidditch Team, then try playing it yourself. Please BYOB (i.e. Bring Your Own Broom)! Register beginning Tuesday, June 4. Ages 11-18.
Tuesday, June 25
Teen Writers' Workshop
Poets, Songwriters, Storytellers, and Dreamers, bring your original work and thoughts about writing. Meet with Mike Ball, award-winning humorist. Ages 11-18. Drop-ins welcome. Call 810-229-6571 x227 for more information.
Wednesday, June 26
Underground Reads Teen Book Club
Escape into some dark, fantastical worlds with this summer's teen book club. Pizza and pop will be provided, so come hungry. This month's book is Tunnels by Roderick Gordon, an exciting read about two friends investigating a labyrinthine world underneath London that's full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like us! Register today and reserve a copy of the book at the Information Desk. Ages 11-18.
Friday, June 28
Teen Gaming
Stop by for the newest and coolest games around! Play Guitar Hero, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, or dance on the big screen with the XBOX Kinect. Snacks and drinks provided. Drop-in. Ages 11-18.
Set in a world of luxury and deception, the Luxe series will take you on a thrilling trip to the age of innocence that's anything but innocent. Don't miss your chance to dance in the gilded ballrooms of nineteenth century Manhattan, and slip away with the city's most charming bachelors.
This series follows the lives of Camelia and Ben, two teens with psychometric abilities. Having this ability allows them to sense the future through touch and sets them up to solve some creepy local mysteries. These books are especially popular with fans of the Twilight series, so pick one up today if you need a paranormal romance fix!
Meet Amy, a teen from our time period who is cryogenically frozen, along with her parents, in the hopes of colonizing a new planet 300 years away from Earth. Woken up early while the ship Godspeed is still 50 years from its destination, she teams with fellow teen Elder, the boy being groomed to take over as ship's captain one day.
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with seventeen-year-old Augustus forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. This quick read will have you laughing and crying at the same time.
When Kula Baker, daughter of an outlaw, sets out for San Francisco to clear her father of a crime he didn't commit, she hardly expects to find herself swept up into a world of elegance and intrigue. Not sure who to trust, she finds herself drawn to both the handsome David Wong, a soft-spoken man from Chinatown, and Will Henderson, the son of a wealthy banker.
In 2036 New Jersey, when teens are expected to become fanatically religious wives and mothers or high-priced Surrogettes for couples made infertile by a widespread virus, sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony find in one another the courage to believe they have choice.
Several adopted teens, with no memories of their past, are brought together by Subject Seven, an escapee from the underground lab where all of them were artificially created and genetically modified to be ultimate warriors. The scientists that created them want them dead, and the teens will have to join forces to protect themselves and rediscover what they're capable of.
