Teen Scene
October 2025
 
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with us by crafting a beautiful Ojo de Dios!
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 4:00 PM-5:00 PM, Lane Room
Burlingame Main Library
No Registration Required.
This Program is funded by the Burlingame Library Foundation.
 
Join us for an evening of poetry at our Community Poetry Open Mic Series with featured reader, 2017 San Mateo County Poet Laureate, and author of A Different Physics, Lisa Rosenberg!
Come share a poem or two or sit back and listen. The Open Mic will be followed by a reading and book signing from Lisa. Light refreshments will be provided. Copies of Lisa's most recent works will be available to purchase from the author. All poets, poetry enthusiasts, and the poetry curious are welcome.
Registration required for Open Mic readers. If you would just like to listen, no need to register. 
Adults and Teens 13+ 
https://burlingame.libcal.com/calendar/programs/poetry
 
Swap your leftover yarn or fabric and pick up something new. Any sewing notions or knitting/crochet tools are welcome too.
Email Cynthia at rider@plsinfo.org with any questions. 
 
United Against Hate Community Rice Dish Potluck
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 5:30 PM-7:00 PM
Burlingame Main Library
Bring your favorite Rice Dish, meet your neighbors, and help foster an atmosphere of mutual respect, tolerance, and understanding one person at a time.
 
 
Join us for a fun pumpkin painting craft and a spooky screening of a movie of your choice!  (Movies rated PG to PG-13).
No registration required.
Craft available while supplies last.
This program is funded by the Burlingame Library Foundation.
 
Join us for a Puppet Art Theater Presentation of Frankenswine!
A zany version of the classic Frankenstein story as told by a cast of pigs.
Friday, October 24, 2025, at 4 pm , Lawn in Front of City Hall*
*The event will be held outdoors, weather permitting, and moved inside the library in case of bad weather.
No registration required.
This program is funded by the Burlingame Library Foundation.
 
Sewing with Teacher Angi, for ages 10 and up
If you are interested in registering for an upcoming class, please complete this form: https://forms.gle/YntmmTR8NUC1aEBP8
 
Recent Releases
Sisters in the Wind
by Angeline Boulley

When Lucy meets someone who claims to help Native American foster kids reconnect with their communities, she’s skeptical. She’s also pretty busy trying to outwit a violent stalker. Fans of Angeline Boulley’s Firekeeper’s Daughter and Warrior Girl Unearthed will recognize familiar characters in this powerful mystery.
Nothing Like the Movies
by Lynn Painter

When they attend the same college, Wes is determined to make his ex-girlfriend Liz fall back in love with him using the rom-com worthy big gestures she loves, but when his best efforts get him nowhere, he wonders if their relationship is really over for good.
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
by Cynthia Leitich Smith, editor

Sandy June’s Legendary Frybread Drive-In is a food truck that appears wherever Indigenous people across North America need to meet. It provides the setting for the linked stories in this touching and magical anthology that takes readers from Hawai’i to Alaska to Manitoba and many liminal places in between.
This Place Kills Me
by Mariko Tamaki

Elizabeth, beloved member of the Wilberton Academy’s exclusive Theatrical Society, is found dead after her premier performance as Juliet. New girl Abby, perhaps the last to see Elizabeth alive, doubts the authorities who rule the death a suicide. Read-alikes: Karen M. McManus’ Nothing More to Tell; Christopher Sebela’s Pantomime.
The House of Quiet
by Kiersten White

Impoverished children who fail to adjust to the Procedure meant to give them supernatural powers end up at the House of Quiet. Birdie gets a job there in order to find her missing sister, but instead she finds aristocratic teens who pull her into a dangerous conspiracy. Read-alikes: Ginny Myers Sain’s Dark and Shallow Lies; Quinn Diacon-Furtado’s The Lilies.
 
Horror Round-Up
The Bad Ones
by Melissa Albert

Before Becca disappeared, she left clues only her former best friend Nora could decode. Now Nora must figure out how Becca’s disappearance ties to a childhood game of theirs. Fans of urban legends will enjoy this creepy supernatural horror laced with mystery.
 
Aisle Nine
by Ian X. Cho

Two years ago, demon-spewing portals to hell opened all over the world, which are now managed by the Vanguard Corporation. When a portal opens in the discount store where Jasper works, he decides to take action and save the world himself. Read-alikes: Alex Brown’s Damned If You Do; Lorence Alison’s Solstice.
Immortal Dark
by Tigest Girma

Hoping to locate her kidnapped sister, Kidan enrolls in Uxlay Academy, where she can get close to the suspect, a vampire named Susenyos. She’s supposed to hate Susenyos, but she finds herself fascinated with him instead. Read-alikes: Sharina Harris’ Sign of the Slayer; Jenni Howell’s Boys With Sharp Teeth.
The Dark We Know
by Wen-Yi Lee

Home for her abusive father’s funeral, art student Isadora Chang reunites with an estranged friend. Together they investigate their mutual friends' deaths. Is there a connection with the gruesome sketches Isadora doesn’t remember drawing? This enthralling Gothic novel spins horrors from childhood trauma and small-town secrets.
Flawless Girls
by Anna-Marie McLemore

Unsettled by the elite finishing school Alarie House, Isla left immediately. When her sister Renata graduates and returns home raging and unrecognizable, Isla must return to Alarie House to find out what happens there. This lyrical book highlights the horror of how women are pressured to achieve perfection.
 
Contact your librarian for more great books!
Burlingame Public Library
480 Primrose Rd
Burlingame, California 94010
650-558-7400 x3

www.burlingame.org/library