Take a musical journey around the Americas with Latin Grammy-winning 123 Andrés and Christina. Their high-energy, bilingual Spanish program is full of movement, rhythm and fun. For children ages birth to 6 years old.
Share the fun of reading with your children ages 3-5 years at the Parklands-Turner Neighborhood Library.
Every Tuesday at 10 a.m., children and their grownups will explore stories and activities to encourage children to develop a lifelong love of reading and learning.
This 30-to-40-minute program is designed to promote language and listening skills, expand children’s imaginations and arouse their curiosity about the world around them.
See you at the library.
Welcome to The Homework Zone!
The Parklands-Turner Library staff cares about the education and well being of the youth in our neighborhood. In support of scholastic achievement, library staff invite children ages 8 to 15 to visit the Parklands-Turner Library on Wednesdays after school for a unique study hall opportunity.
Each Wednesday from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m., library staff will establish a calm study environment called The Homework Zone in the children's room.
If you enjoy playing games, then visit the Parklands-Turner Neighborhood Library on Thursday nights at 5:00 p.m. for Game Night!
Kids and teens will enjoy a variety of competitive games; from video games, to card games, to board games!
Every Thursday will feature a different type of game.
Recommended for ages 7-16.
Share the fun of reading with your children ages 3-5 years at the Parklands-Turner Neighborhood Library.
Every Tuesday at 10 a.m., children and their grownups will explore stories and activities to encourage children to develop a lifelong love of reading and learning.
This 30-to-40-minute program is designed to promote language and listening skills, expand children’s imaginations and arouse their curiosity about the world around them.
See you at the library.
The Parklands-Turner Black Literature Book Club will host a librarian-led discussion on Tuesday, August 28, at 2 p.m. Thoughtful sharing and insightful comments are the hallmark of the club, and always lead to a greater enjoyment of the specially selected title of the month.
Welcome to The Homework Zone!
The Parklands-Turner Library staff cares about the education and well being of the youth in our neighborhood. In support of scholastic achievement, library staff invite children ages 8 to 15 to visit the Parklands-Turner Library on Wednesdays after school for a unique study hall opportunity.
Each Wednesday from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m., library staff will establish a calm study environment called The Homework Zone in the children's room.
If you enjoy playing games, then visit the Parklands-Turner Neighborhood Library on Thursday nights at 5:00 p.m. for Game Night!
Kids and teens will enjoy a variety of competitive games; from video games, to card games, to board games!
Every Thursday will feature a different type of game.
Recommended for ages 7-16.
The Parklands-Turner Neighborhood Library has a terrific collection of comic books and graphic novels. Children and teens are encouraged to come in and enjoy one of the comics on display, or select an item from the catalog from any library in the city and have it delivered to Parklands-Turner, especially for you!
Each month, the library staff will select and recommend a graphic novel or comic series for you to enjoy.
Come in and enjoy!
College and Job Seekers for Teens and Young Adults
Every month at Parklands-Turner, teens (ages 13-19) and young adults (ages 20-24) are guided through specific steps toward realizing their goals—whether these goals are to receive a scholarship award to the college or university of choice, acceptance into a competitive and highly coveted apprenticeship program or a call-back after a series of successful job interviews.
Teens: Have you recently read a really great book? Do you have a favorite book that you'd like to recommend to other teens?
Do you want to earn additional community service hours?
Accomplish all of these each time you write a book review that gets published on the Parklands-Turner Library page.
Submit your one-page review to Young Adult and Teen Specialist Auset Whaley.
Holiday planning? We got you covered, from cookbooks to entertaining, Christmas cookies and decorating, holiday DVDs and seasonal fiction, cardmaking and other craft guides.
Youth continue to be at the heart of every social movement. What are today's teens thinking about current and past African American social movements?
From 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. every Thursday from January 18 to February 22, 2018, teens at the Parklands-Turner Library will watch and discuss films that show little-known occurrences of the past that are relevant to what they see happening in society today.
Want to wear your message to the world on your shoulder? Don't wait until February to make your mark.
Come to a special post-Kwanzaa/Get-Ready-for-Black-History-Month DIY craft for teens at the Parklands-Turner Library.
Saturday, Jan. 13 from 1 - 3 p.m., teens will immortalize powerful, meaningful images and words as they design their own buttons and book markers to wear during Black History Month and beyond.
Do you love cookies, cakes, pies and other baked goods?
If you want to learn how to bake or if you just want to explore new recipes, visit the specially assembled display of baking books behind the library's main desk, and check out an assortment of books on baking.
The books selected by the staff of the Parklands-Turner Neighborhood Library will be available throughout the month of November.
Your library has a great collection of cookbooks of all kinds to help you in your culinary adventures.
