Teens

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KCKPL Teen Services

Teen Services offers a variety of resources for youth aged 13-18, including programs, academic help, volunteer opportunities, and recommended books. Interested? Click on a link, send an email, stop by a branch, or give us a call.

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Upcoming Events

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Adult Take Home Craft - Macramé Key Chain

07/14/2025 @ 9:00am–07/31/2025 @ 5:00pm
Teens, Adults
West Wyandotte Library
Library Branch: West Wyandotte Library
Room: Take Home - West Wyandotte Library
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Crafts & Hobbies, Take Home
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Come grab a kit to make your own macrame key chain! 

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Adult Take-Home Craft @ Main: Mandala Rock Painting

07/15/2025 @ 9:00am–07/31/2025 @ 9:00pm
Teens, Adults
Main Library
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Take Home - Main Library
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Entertainment & Culture, Crafts & Hobbies, Additional Program Format, Take Home
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Come grab a kit to make colorful dot-painted mandala stone.

 

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Library programs, events, and classes are photographed or videotaped for promotional purposes or to document library activities.  Notify library staff if you prefer not to be photographed. 

Los programas de la biblioteca, eventos y clases son fotografiados o filmados con fines promocionales o para documentar las actividades de la biblioteca. Notificar al personal de la biblioteca si prefiere no ser fotografiado.

 

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Yoga : Para el Bienestar

9:30am–11:00am
Children, Teens, Adults
South Branch Library
Library Branch: South Branch Library
Room: Conference Room A - South Branch Library
Age Group: Children, Teens, Adults
Program Type: Developing Skills, Health & Wellness, Additional Program Format, Spanish
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Yoga para Principiantes!!! Listos para equilibrar tu estado físico ,a tu ritmo y con disciplina? entonces integrate a estas sesiones para lograrlo.

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Library programs, events, and classes are photographed or videotaped for promotional purposes or to document library activities.  Notify library staff if you prefer not to be photographed. 

Los programas de la biblioteca, eventos y clases son fotografiados o filmados con fines promocionales o para documentar las actividades de la biblioteca. Notificar al personal de la biblioteca si prefiere no ser fotografiado.

 

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Lego Club

1:00pm–1:30pm
Children, Teens
Main Library
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Craft Room - Main Library
Age Group: Children, Teens
Program Type: Developing Skills, Entertainment & Culture, Crafts & Hobbies, Games & Video Games, Recreation
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With their imagination and creativity kids and teens can join in on the Lego fun this summer! Ages 6-19. No registration needed!

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Library programs, events, and classes are photographed or videotaped for promotional purposes or to document library activities.  Notify library staff if you prefer not to be photographed. 

Los programas de la biblioteca, eventos y clases son fotografiados o filmados con fines promocionales o para documentar las actividades de la biblioteca. Notificar al personal de la biblioteca si prefiere no ser fotografiado.

 

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Switch Mania!

2:00pm–3:30pm
Children, Teens
Main Library
Library Branch: Main Library
Age Group: Children, Teens
Program Type: Developing Skills, Computers & Technology, Games & Video Games, Recreation, Entertainment & Culture
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Main Library is pulling out the Nintendo Switch for an afternoon of gaming! Come and join us! For ages 8 to 19.

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Library programs, events, and classes are photographed or videotaped for promotional purposes or to document library activities.  Notify library staff if you prefer not to be photographed. 

Los programas de la biblioteca, eventos y clases son fotografiados o filmados con fines promocionales o para documentar las actividades de la biblioteca. Notificar al personal de la biblioteca si prefiere no ser fotografiado.

 

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Soak Up the Fun: Summer Reading Wrap-Up Party

5:00pm–7:00pm
Children, Teens
South Branch Library
Library Branch: South Branch Library
Age Group: Children, Teens
Program Type: Entertainment & Culture, Special Events, Parties & Celebrations
Event Details:

Sound the alarm and get ready for a wet and wild experience as we celebrate summer with a splashing good time! It may be hot outside, but Fantastic Fire Department® will save the day with water games and activities! 

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Library programs, events, and classes are photographed or videotaped for promotional purposes or to document library activities.  Notify library staff if you prefer not to be photographed. 

Los programas de la biblioteca, eventos y clases son fotografiados o filmados con fines promocionales o para documentar las actividades de la biblioteca. Notificar al personal de la biblioteca si prefiere no ser fotografiado.

 

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Exploring the World of Dance

6:00pm–7:00pm
Children, Teens
West Wyandotte Library
Seats Available
Registration Required
Library Branch: West Wyandotte Library
Room: Auditorium - West Wyandotte Library
Age Group: Children, Teens
Program Type: Developing Skills, Health & Wellness, Entertainment & Culture, Music
Registration Required
Event Details:

Dance is a universal language that transcends borders, cultures, and time. It is an expressive art form that brings people together, celebrating movement and rhythm.

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Library programs, events, and classes are photographed or videotaped for promotional purposes or to document library activities.  Notify library staff if you prefer not to be photographed. 

Los programas de la biblioteca, eventos y clases son fotografiados o filmados con fines promocionales o para documentar las actividades de la biblioteca. Notificar al personal de la biblioteca si prefiere no ser fotografiado.

 

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Burmese Community College Readiness Class

6:00pm–8:00pm
Teens, Adults
West Wyandotte Library
Library Branch: West Wyandotte Library
Room: Conference Room C - West Wyandotte Library
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Developing Skills, School & Homeschool
Event Details:

Preparing for college can feel overwhelming, but our College Readiness Class is here to help!

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Library programs, events, and classes are photographed or videotaped for promotional purposes or to document library activities.  Notify library staff if you prefer not to be photographed. 

Los programas de la biblioteca, eventos y clases son fotografiados o filmados con fines promocionales o para documentar las actividades de la biblioteca. Notificar al personal de la biblioteca si prefiere no ser fotografiado.

 

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Mending Monday Makerspace

6:00pm–8:00pm
Teens, Adults
West Wyandotte Library
Library Branch: West Wyandotte Library
Room: Craft Room - West Wyandotte Library
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Developing Skills, Home & Garden, Entertainment & Culture, Crafts & Hobbies
Event Details:

Bring items to mend or alter, or your latest sewing project and take advantage of the Sewing Machines and supplies in the library sewing lab the first Monday of the month from 6 pm to 8 pm.  Come for the evening and share ideas and inspiratio

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Library programs, events, and classes are photographed or videotaped for promotional purposes or to document library activities.  Notify library staff if you prefer not to be photographed. 

Los programas de la biblioteca, eventos y clases son fotografiados o filmados con fines promocionales o para documentar las actividades de la biblioteca. Notificar al personal de la biblioteca si prefiere no ser fotografiado.

 

Resources for Teens

Bloom's Literature

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Bloom’s Literature offers a comprehensive resource for the study of literature.

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Britannica Moderna

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Older students can turn to Britannica Moderna, with more than 47,000 articles plus about 8,000 images.

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Driver's Permit Tests

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Prepare with these Kansas DMV practice tests.

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Explora High School

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High School students can look up articles and facts for research papers, class projects, or homework from the world’s leading magazines and reference books.

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Explora Middle School

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Middle School students can look up articles and facts for research papers, class projects, or homework from the world’s leading magazines and reference books.

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History Reference Center

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Comprehensive history reference database offering full text from more than 1,600 reference books, encyclopedias, non-fiction books, and leading history periodicals.

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Issues & Controversies

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Helps students and researchers understand today’s crucial issues by exploring hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture.

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Learning Express

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Comprehensive test preparation, skills improvement resources, and career guidance for elementary students to adult learners.

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Literary Reference Center

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Includes thousands of plot summaries, synopses, and work overviews; articles of literary criticism; author biographies; literary journals; book reviews; classic and contemporary poems and short stories.

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Novelist K-8

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Reading recommendation resource for school grades K-8.

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Novelist Plus

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Reading recommendation resource for all ages.

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Read It!

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Read It! is designed for middle and high school students and adults who have a basic foundation in English grammar and reading but need adapted reading material for a variety of subjects.

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Tutor.com

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Provides live homework help and in-person tutoring services that connect students to a professional tutor online in math, science, social studies or English.

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Recommended Books

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Codebreaker

This original, interactive thriller from debut author Jay Martel follows a brilliant teenage girl as she races across D.C. to decode the clues her father left behind, which may just be the key to saving the country from a devastating tragedy.

Mia Hayes has peaceful plans for the summer—find a part-time job at a coffee shop and work on her college applications. Those plans are shattered one night when government agents arrive unannounced at her home seeking something they believe her father has taken. When the dust settles, her mother is dead and her father is gone, a fugitive on the run. 

Three weeks later, and still reeling from her father’s betrayal, Mia spends her seventeenth birthday at a protest in the heart of D.C., where she meets Logan, a rebellious and charming hacker. Just as she’s enjoying her first happy moment since the night her world exploded, a voicemail from her father arrives to upend everything she believed about her family, her past, and what really happened that night three weeks ago. Even more, the voicemail hides another encoded message inside which, once Mia solves it, sets her and Logan off on a mission from her sleepy suburb straight into the heart of the federal government.

With the same agents now hot on their trail, Mia and Logan must navigate their way through American history’s most iconic sites and uncover its most well-hidden secrets to reveal the truth about her family and stop a deadly attack. 

In this non-stop thrill ride, the reader has the chance to test their own codebreaking skills alongside Mia, lending an exciting interactive element to this page-turning thriller packed with action, romance, and life-changing revelations.

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Poemhood, Our Black Revival

"A rich, thoughtful anthology exploring centuries of Black poetry." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"This deep and complex assemblage of Black poetry culminates in a joyful, painful, and emotionally rich experience." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"An eclectic mix of Black experiences fills this unmatched anthology that features both modern poets, such as Nikki Giovanni and Ibi Zoboi, and 'the brilliant Black poets who are now ancestors'... A fresh canon for poetry studies."--ALA Booklist (starred review)

"An excellent collection of poetry that is an insightful read on the Black experience"--School and Library Journal

Starring thirty-seven poets, with contributions from acclaimed authors, including Kwame Alexander, Ibi Zoboi, and Nikki Giovanni, this breathtaking Black YA poetry anthology edited by National Book Award finalist Amber McBride, Taylor Byas, and Erica Martin celebrates Black poetry, folklore, and culture.

Come, claim your wings.

Lift your life above the earth,

return to the land of your father's birth.

What exactly is it to be Black in America?

Well, for some, it's learning how to morph the hatred placed by others into love for oneself; for others, it's unearthing the strength it takes to continue to hold one's swagger when multitudinous factors work to make Black lives crumble. For some, it's gathering around the kitchen table as Grandma tells the story of Anansi the spider, while for others it's grinning from ear to ear while eating auntie's spectacular 7Up cake.

Black experiences and traditions are complex, striking, and vast--they stretch longer than the Nile and are four times as deep--and carry more than just unimaginable pain--there is also joy.

Featuring an all-star group of thirty-seven powerful poetic voices, including such luminaries as Kwame Alexander, James Baldwin, Ibi Zoboi, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, and Gwendolyn Brooks, this riveting anthology depicts the diversity of the Black experience by fostering a conversation about race, faith, heritage, and resilience between fresh poets and the literary ancestors that came before them.

Edited by Taylor Byas, Erica Martin, and Coretta Scott King New Talent Award winner Amber McBride, Poemhood will simultaneously highlight the duality and nuance at the crux of so many Black experiences with poetry being the psalm constantly playing.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection pick!

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Oathbound

The phenomenal third book in the TikTok sensation Legendborn Cycle by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Tracy Deonn. Perfect for fans of Tahereh Mafi, Sabaa Tahir, Cassandra Clare and Leigh Bardugo!

Severed from the Legendborn. Oathbound to a monster.

Bree Matthews is alone. She exiled herself from the Legendborn Order, cut her ancestral connections, and turned away from the friends who can't understand the impossible cost of her powers. This is the only way to keep herself - and those she loves - safe.

But Bree's decision has come with a terrible price: an unbreakable bargain with the Shadow King himself, a shapeshifter who can move between humanity, the demon underworld, and the Legendborn secret society. In exchange for training to wield her unprecedented abilities, Bree has put her future in the Shadow King's hands - and unwittingly bound herself to do his bidding as his new protégé.

Meanwhile, the other Scions must face war with their Round Table fractured, leaderless, and missing its Kingsmage, as Selwyn has also disappeared. When Nick is detained by the Order's Merlins, he invokes an ancient law that requires the High Council of Regents to convene at the Northern Keep and grant him an audience. No one knows what he will demand of them . . . or what secrets he has kept hidden from the Table.

As a string of mysterious kidnappings escalates and Merlins are found dead, it becomes clear that no matter how hard Bree runs from who she is, the past will always find her . . .

Praise for Legendborn:

'I love the feeling of a magical world existing just beneath the surface of our own and this story gave me everything I wanted: incredible characters, ancient lore and secret societies - all grounded in our very real, very flawed world . . .' Leigh Bardugo, author of Shadow and Bone

'Tracy Deonn's Legendborn braids southern folk traditions and Black Girl Magic into a searing modern tale of grief, power and self-discovery.' Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Belles