Programs for
Teens & Tweens
September 2025
Registration is now open for all September programs!

Program Guide
Pick up a copy at the library or view it online!
Event Calendar
Learn about and register for any of our programs.
 
Program Highlights:
Junior Library Volunteers
Date/Time: Monday, 9/22 at 6pm
Presenter: OFL's Teen Librarian
Location: Room 222 - 2nd Floor
Do you want to volunteer at the library? Join other teens in your community to make a positive impact at OFL. Volunteers will help set up book displays, plan and host library events, and help care for our Teen collection!
Visit www.oflibrary.org/events-calendar for finalized meeting dates/times.
This group can help teens fulfill required volunteer service hours and prepare for future college and career opportunities.
For teens in ages 12-17 | No registration necessary
Shades of Orange Painting Class
Date/Time: Saturday, 9/20, 2:00-3:30pm
Presenter: Shades of Orange
Location: Community Room - 1st Floor
Join artist Patti Stevens of Shades of Orange to create your very own fall painting! Patrons will follow along to learn the techniques for painting a fall scene - all supplies provided.
For ages 12-17 | REGISTRATION REQUIRED
SPONSORED BY THE FRIENDS OF OFL.
Reading Recommendations:
Fantasy:
Songs for Ghosts
by Clara Kumagai

Caught between cultures, relationships, and family, seventeen-year-old Japanese-American Adam finds new purpose after discovering a hundred-year-old journal written by a young woman in Nagasaki, leading him to a homestay in Japan, where he unravels the mystery of her identity and his own.
Mystery:
A Beautiful and Terrible Murder
by Claire M. Andrews

Irene Adler is no ordinary young lady. She's at the top of the ranks in the All Souls cohort, a competitive preparatory class reserved for Oxford's brightest minds. But her peers and professors don't know she's a lady at all. To them, she is Isaac Holland. Keeping up her disguise gets trickier when All Souls students start dying, one by one. Determined to find out who's responsible for the deaths, Irene--as Isaac--teams up with fellow classmate and roommate Sherlock Holmes to track down clues. Their mission grows more dangerous by the day as someone tries to frame Isaac for the murders, and Irene's own father, Dean Moriarty, begins to threaten her seat in school. Readers will love following these classic and beloved characters through the twists and turns in the dark halls of Oxford, and discovering what secret lies behind the glitz and glamor of the elite.
Realistic Fiction:
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
 
Featuring the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers and edited by bestselling Muscogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter, love, Native pride, and the world’s best frybread.
Romance:
Marisol Acts the Part
by Elle Gonzalez Rose

After a humiliating public dumping, a teen actress lands a role on the same high-profile show as her ex-boyfriend, only for things to get messy when she falls for his co-star.
Sci-Fi/Dystopia:
Starstrike
by Yoon Ha Lee

Teen mecha pilot Hwa Young returns to her rebel roots to fight against the Imperial force, but as she grapples with her warring allegiances, who can she really trust?
Graphic Novel:
This Place Kills Me
by Mariko Tamaki
 
At Wilberton Academy, few students are more revered than the members of the elite Wilberton Theatrical Society--a.k.a. the WTS--and no one represents that exclusive club better than Elizabeth Woodward. Breathtakingly beautiful, beloved by all, and a talented thespian, it's no surprise she's starring as Juliet in the WTS's performance of Shakespeare's classic tragedy. But when she's found dead the morning after opening night, the whole school is thrown into chaos. Transfer student Abby Kita was one of the last people to see Elizabeth alive, and when local authorities deem the it-girl's death a suicide, Abby's not convinced.
Need more reading recommendations?
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SAVE THE DATES - Friends of OFL Book Sale
Explore our Teen Space
Come Hang Out!
Are you and your friends looking for a safe space to hang out? OFL is YOUR spot! Meet up with friends, pick out books, play games, attend programs and more!
 
Gaming at OFL:
Board Games
 
Xbox One
 
Gaming PC
 
Summer Hours:
 
 
 Summer Saturday Hours: 10am-2pm
Through Labor Day
 
 
 
Labor Day Weekend
Closed August 30 - September 1

Onondaga Free Library
4840 West Seneca Tpk
Syracuse, NY 13215
315-492-1727info@oflibrary.org
www.oflibrary.org

Hours:
Monday 9:00am-8:30pm
Tuesday 9:00am-8:30pm
Wednesday 9:00am-8:30pm
Thursday 9:00am-8:30pm
Friday 10:00am-5:00pm
Saturday 10:00am-5:00pm*
Sunday CLOSED*Summer Saturday Hours:
3rd Sunday in June through Labor Day
Saturday 10:00am-2:00pm

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