Help others find their next great book to read! Our Teen Speak Blog is a place where teens in Glendale review books they are currently reading and tell their honest opinions. Read any book you like, write a one paragraph summary (75 words minimum), and then tell us your opinion about the book in a second paragraph (100 words minimum). All types of books are welcome: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Manga, or any other book you choose.  

You Will Gain

One hour of Community Service Volunteer Credit per book review. You can submit three book reviews per week

Experience practicing critical thinking skills, and writing the book review from your unique perspective  

Experience writing content that will be displayed on a public blog  

Knowledge about a new book that you will read, and we hope you will enjoy the book review process! 

Next Steps

Read your book of choice 

Write your opinions of the book in a review 

Send it to the Teen Speak Blog by visiting this link: Teen Speak Blog Link

The Teen Services Librarian will read your review, and if it is approved, you will receive an email, and your review will be added to the Teen Speak Blog.  

You receive community service volunteer credit  

Description

Assist Literacy Department staff by sending them a list of interesting questions that can be used during their conversation programs when teaching English language classes, or to help people practice speaking English. Send at least 15 of your best questions in a Microsoft Word document, on a wide variety of topics to TBarrios@GlendaleCA.gov. Questions should be professional, but should be about fun, relevant topics, and should sound like questions that you might really hear someone say in a conversation. Your questions should include different types of vocabulary words if possible.  

Example Questions:  

Do you like going to the Farmer’s Market? What do you like to buy when you go to the Farmer’s Market?  

Do you have a dog? What is your new dog’s name? He is so cute, and he reminds me of a Capybara.  

Do you like to ride rollercoasters? Why or why not?   

What do you like to do on the weekend for fun?  

You Will Gain

Community Service Volunteer Hours depending on how many Word documents, of 15 questions each, you send to the Teen Services Librarian (You can send in up to 5, for a maximum of 5 volunteer hours) 

Skills that help you learn about how to create questions for people who are learning English as a second, third, or fourth language 

Skills that help you learn about how to create a professional document  

Time Commitment

You can decide to send the librarian only one Microsoft Word document containing 15 questions, for 1 hour of volunteer credit, or you can send up to 5 documents containing 15 questions each, for up to 5 hours of volunteer credit!