College Applications Workshop @North
November 9
Wednesday, 6:30-7:30pm
The YMCA PG&E Teen Center provides teens with programs to pursue their educational goals, career ambitions, and leadership skills. Staff from the Teen Center show you how to fill out college applications and write your College Application Essay before the November 30th deadline. This free workshop is open to current and future students applying to college and their parents.

Teen Tour @BAMPFA
November 18
Friday, 4:00-5:00pm
The THP South Branch Teen Leadership Group hosts a free tour of the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives, located in downtown Berkeley. Join BAMPFA's curator of school & family programs, Karen Bennet, for a tour focusing on the exhibit Berkeley Eye: Perspectives on the Collection.

Space is limited and priority is given to Berkeley teens. Please contact us to register. Call 510-981-6060 or email teen librarian Andrea Mullarkey for information and to reserve your spot.

Between the Lines by Sarah Klein

Add, Extract, React: Animation Class @Central
Saturday, November 19
1:00-4:00pm
We'll work with artist Sarah Klein in small teams to design an animation of hand colored and hand-cut paper. Take a playful approach and experiment with forms, patterns and color. Participants gain experience filming a section of the animation using traditional stop-motion techniques. The sections will be gathered into one collaborative work that will be posted online for public viewing. Read more.

Advance registration is required. Ages 12 and up. No previous animation experience is required. To sign up or get more information visit the fifth floor Art & Music desk, call 510-981-6241, or email us.

Native American History/Bancroft Library @North
November 30
Wednesday, 6:00pm
November is  Native American History Month. Lee Anne Titangos will be here to share the history and images of Bancroft Library's Native American collections. Leanne Hinton, UCBerkeley emerita professor of Linguistics and the force behind the Breath of Life program that helps indigenous Californian communities preserve their languages, will discuss how these collections are used by the local Native American communities.

Breathing Room
by Marsha Hayles
I did not like this book. The main character is this girl who has tuberculosis and she has to go away from her family to a sanitarium. It took her a year and a half to come back from there and most of the book takes place at the hospital.

 It is very sad because most of her friends die from this disease and her best friend, who she meets in the middle of the book, has to stay at the hospital even when the main character is leaving. And she was thinking about staying with her but then ended up just leaving. She did leave a note and they said goodbye and did all these nice things before she went but it was still disappointing that she left. I thought she should've stayed to be with her.

Find this book in the Library's catalog.

What are your friendly teen librarians up to? Andrea Mullarkey from Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch and Nikki Santiago from the Claremont Branch are attending the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Conference November 4-6!

Follow their hijinks on Twitter by watching the official conference account @yalsa or things they may post on #yalsa16!

And here are the "Best of the Best"  YALSA reading suggestions