Teen Hangout

Multicultural Teens sitting and talking at library

Programs & Events for Teens

You'll love our crafts, games, teen afterhours, and other great events! Follow our Teen Instagram to keep up with what's happening.

Calendar of Events for Teens

All Glendale Public Library Events for Teens

Foothills Library Events for Teens

Heroes Regional Park Library Events for Teens

Main Library Events for Teens

Velma Teague Library Events for Teens

Teen Volunteering

Volunteering will bring you community service credit for school, work experience, and fun! Ages 14 and up are welcome to apply.

Volunteering

eBooks, Movies, Music & More

Read eBooks and magazines, listen to audiobooks and music, and watch videos on your phone, tablet, computer, or other device for free!

To access digital library content, you will need your library card barcode (the number on the back of your library card) and PIN (usually the last four digits of your phone number).

Please be aware that Freegal, hoopla, the Greater Phoenix Digital Library/Libby, and other digital library applications allow full access to all library card holders, including restricted minors.

The Libby App & the Greater Phoenix Digital Library (Overdrive): Popular eBooks, Audiobooks & Magazines

The Greater Phoenix Digital Library, powered by OverDrive, has thousands of eBooks, audiobooks, and magazines to use on your computer or portable devices. You'll find the newest and most popular titles! You'll also have access to an additional "Always Available" collection of eBooks, audiobooks, and magazines.

The app for the Greater Phoenix Digital Library is Libby, a simple yet feature-rich eBook reader and audiobook player. There's also a web-based version of the Libby app that runs in a browser window.

Access the Greater Phoenix Digital Library Website

Download the Libby App

Use the Web-based Libby App

hoopla digital: Always-available eBooks, Audiobooks, Magazines, Movies & Music

With hoopla, you can instantly borrow hundreds of thousands of digital movies, music albums, audiobooks, eBooks, and comics, 24/7 with your library card — there's never a waiting list. The checkout limit is seven items per month.

Want to get more out of your monthly checkouts? Unlock endless entertainment with BingePass! Enjoy seven days of on-demand digital access to individual platforms and collections. Get digital magazines, movies, puzzles, comics, podcasts, eBooks, documentaries, video courses, and more. With SeasonPass — part of the BingePass lineup — you can even watch full TV seasons with just a single borrow.

Hoopla is compatible with Apple TV, Fire TV, and Roku devices.

Access the hoopla Website

Download the hoopla App for Android

Download the hoopla App for iOS

Download the hoopla App for Kindle

Available hoopla BingePass Titles

Freegal: Downloadable Music & Music Videos That Are Yours to Keep!

It's free, it's legal . . . it's Freegal! Download up to five MP3s per week from a catalog of over 15 million songs from over 90,000 music labels, including Sony Music, plus over 40,000 music videos. There are no DRM (digital rights management) restrictions. They're yours to keep!

Download the Freegal App for Android

Download the Freegal App for iOS

Download the Freegal App for Kindle

Online Learning for Teens

To access these databases (except for Khan Academy), you will need your library card barcode (the number on the back of your library card) and PIN (usually the last four digits of your phone number).

Britannica Escolar

Descubra los artículos enciclopédicos, los recursos multimedia y otros materiales de aprendizaje que apoyan la investigación de los estudiantes y refuerzan la programación curricular.

Britannica Library Edition

Discover encyclopedia articles, multimedia, primary sources, e-books, and other learning resources that support student research and reinforce curriculum standards.

Gale in Context: Elementary

Gale In Context: Elementary, formerly Kids InfoBits, gradually lets elementary school children gain comfort with research by delivering age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content covering a broad range of subjects taught in the classroom.

Gale in Context: High School

Gale in Context: High School helps students develop both research and critical-thinking skills while covering the spectrum of student-focused subject matter. It provides holistic topic perspectives by integrating a multitude of content, including: reference articles from acclaimed publications, periodical and newspaper articles, and many other multimedia resources.

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints is an online resource covering today’s hottest social issues and helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.

Gale in Context: Science

Supporting high school curricula and university coursework, Gale in Context: Science features authoritative information for assignments and projects, and provides detailed coverage of popular subjects. From earth science and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history and biography, this revolutionary, curriculum-oriented online experience is designed to boost achievement for students and researchers.

Gale in Context: U.S. History

Gale in Context: U.S. History delivers comprehensive, contextual, media-rich search results from the most extensive online collection of historical information available today. It provides a complete overview of U.S. history that covers the most-studied events, issues and current information.

Gale in Context: World History

Gale in Context: World History is a comprehensive online collection that provides multicultural, global and research-based dynamic content that supports today’s history research requirements. It moves chronologically over 5,000 years from antiquity to the present and geographically around the globe.

Hobbies and Crafts Source

This database offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast. Full text is provided from leading hobby and craft magazines.

Khan Academy

You can learn anything. Expert-created content and resources for every subject and level. Always free.

Rocket Languages

Learn a language on your own terms and in your own time.

Scribner Writers Online

This collection includes Scribner literature titles that focus on different aspects of world and genre literature.

Twayne's Authors Online

Find in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers. Includes influences of literary movements.

Request a Teen Book Box

Want personalized reading picks? Try our Teen Book Boxes (which comes with fun stuff to keep!) or Readers Concierge service.

Teen Book Boxes

Need something new to read? Looking for something to do? We’ve got you covered! Request a Teen Book Box at your home library and receive a box filled with a craft/activity, three library books to borrow, and other cool stuff, all chosen just for you by your personal teen librarian! Everything except the books and the box is yours to keep. Limit one box per teen, per month. Boxes are available only to teens, ages 12-18. A valid email address and library card number must be provided. Quantities are limited, so be sure to sign up today!

Request a Teen Book Box

Don’t have a library card yet? Register online and pick up your card when you pick up your box!

Readers Concierge: Recommendations Just for You

Let us help you find your new favorite reads! Just complete a short survey to give us a sense of what you like to read and library staff will email you a personalized list of five to ten titles within three to five days.

Readers Concierge Request