Pasadena Public Library
We’re celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month! We’re learning about empanadas and how to make pastry dough from scratch. This dough technique (cutting cold butter into flour) is similar to making pie crusts, biscuits, scones, pasties, turnover dough, and other pastries. This process creates tiny air pockets (the butter) in your dough, […]
Review by Emily Battaglia , 17 This is Not a Ghost Story By Andrea Portes Mere months before Daffodil Turner begins her new life in college, she finds herself with a rather unusual summer job: house sitting a dusty old mansion for a strange old couple. As the days drag […]
Pasadena Public Library – Teen Advisory Board, August 21, 2021 at Hastings Branch Library Present: Staff: Jane, Angel Members: Yenyi, Noah, Vivien, Caelie, Gabrielle (Gem), Aminda, Leo Announcements: TAB podcast invite – 2-3 TAB members in discussion with another library’s TAB; Noah volunteered. Anyone else? Will also reach […]
Pasadena Public Library – Teen Advisory Board, July 24, 2021 at Hastings Branch Library Present: vivien, maya, leo, genevieve Well-being grant Economic well-being (financial) Emotional well-being (mental health) Environmental well-being (space) Inner well-being (purpose, self) Intellectual well-being (creative) Physical well-being (health, food) Social well-being (relationships) Vocational well-being (work […]
Pasadena Public Library – Teen Advisory Board, June 26, 2021 at Hastings Branch Library Present: caelie, yenyi, vivien, luke, leo, jasmine Announcements Distribute shirts, tags In-person events Levelup fair – who can represent us? Talk about TAB, give out prizes Well-being grant Discuss Moving TAB meetings to […]
In this lesson, participants learn to activate yeast, roll out and bake pizza dough, plus make a very simple mac and cheese with roasted red peppers — all using pantry items. Mac and Cheese Pizza Yields two 10-inch pizzas Ingredients: 1/2 box Elbow pasta 8 oz Velveeta […]
Review by Emily Battaglia, 16 The Left-Handed Booksellers of London By Garth Nix Eighteen-year-old Susan’s search for her father divulges a secret world within London and a family of booksellers that fight to regulate it. She is thrust into a confrontation with the mythical creatures of the Old World as the […]
Review by Cadence Chen, 17 Dragonfly Girl By Marti Leimbach Kira Adams is failing school. While she may be a genius when it comes to math and science, she’s definitely not doing so hot in her other subjects. Combined with the relentless bullying at school and her sick mom with […]
Review by Giselle Carlos, 16 Girl on the Line By Faith Gardner *TRIGGER WARNING* The novel does mention suicide, self-harm, drugs, mental illness. The story is phenomenal, providing its readers with a newfound lust for life, an understanding that we are not our labels. Faith Gardner’s Girl on the Line […]
Review by Jasmine Sov, 15 Pumpkin By Julie Murphy Waylon Brewer can’t wait to get out of Clover City. His plans are all laid out—he’s going to go to community college with his twin sister Clementine, find out exactly what he wants to do with his life, and then go Full […]