Every Monday at 4 p.m., come to Parklands-Turner for a family story time!
Story time fun for the entire family, these 30-40 minutes story times are packed full of books and activities designed to be enjoyed by children of any age and their accompanying adults.
These story times are a great way to further your child’s lifelong love of reading and learning by promoting your child's language and literacy skills. Children and their grownups are encouraged to actively participate in the stories and activities during the program.
Love movies? What to be the director? Learn video production techniques from the Fab Lab staff in this 90-minute session.
There is a maximum of 6 participants per session.
Click the link to register online!
Come to Parklands-Turner every Tuesday at 10 a.m. and share the fun of reading with your children ages 3-5 years! Children and their grownups will explore stories and activities to encourage children to develop a lifelong love of reading and learning. These 30-40 minute programs are designed to promote language and listening skills, expand children’s imaginations and arouse their curiosity about the world around them.
Welcome to The Homework Zone!
The Parklands-Turner Library staff cares about the education and well being of 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 p.m. to 5 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.
Bon Appetit!
Author and Maryland architect Pamela Heyne AIA, will visit the Parklands-Turner Neighborhood Library on Thursday, June 29 at 7 p.m. to present a program on her 1989 interview with Julia Child about kitchen design, entertaining and US culture. Ms. Heyne has published several design books and has appeared on the Discovery Channel, been interviewed by the BBC, and lectured internationally.
The Parklands-Turner Neighborhood Library has a terrific collection of comic books and graphic novels. Each month, library staff will select a popular title for you to enjoy.
Children are encouraged to visit and read in the library, or check out the selected comics on display. Better still, kids can select any comic titles from any library across the city and have them delivered to Parklands-Turner, especially for you!
The Parklands-Turner Neighborhood Library has an assortment of amazing books that have been adapted into incredible blockbuster movies.
Every month, library staff will select a book that has been adapted into a film and displayi it all month long for your reading pleasure.
Read and enjoy the featured book of the month. At the end of each month, library staff will present the film adaptation on the big screen TV for your further enjoyment.
These entertaining urban fictions novels are great stress relievers. These novels will keep you on the edge of your seat and coming back for more and more.
"Women hold up half the sky, but it is the heavier half." (ancient Egyptian Nut; ancient Chinese proverb)"Man is the head, but woman is the neck that turns the head." (South African Proverb)It often is said that "behind every great man, there is a great woman." That is because strong, intelligent men choose strong, intelligent women whose stories often don't get told.
Have you ever wondered what history would look like from a woman's point of view? Do you ever wish we had "herstory" as well as history? These historical novels will bring you into many different women's worlds. In the Museum of Extraordinary Things, you will meet a "mermaid" in Coney Island.
Would you like a break from the everyday routine world? If so, fly into fantasy with these books. You can take a journey to Wonderland, to a mysterious and magical island located in the afterlife, to another remote island where real magic exists, or to a fairy underground. You can also join three children and a greyhound who is a folk Catholic saint on a long and interesting journey.
The Parklands-Turner Neighborhood Library has a terrific collection of comic books and graphic novels. Each month, library staff will select a popular title for you to enjoy.
Children are encouraged to visit and read in the library, or check out the selected comics on display. Better still, kids can select any comic titles from any library across the city and have them delivered to Parklands-Turner, especially for you!
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly" - Lauren Bacall
All during the month of May, twenty seven young patrons of the Parklands-Turner Neighborhood Library were busy making paper kites and reading books, all in an effort to complete our kite contest giveaway reading contest to win real kites to take home and fly out in the fresh Spring air.
Earn Community Service Hours as a Library Youth Advisor
Teens! Are you a respectful, responsible young adult aged 13-19 and interested in sharing your ideas about how the Parklands-Turner Library can meet your needs and the needs of other young people in our community?
Visit the library today or phone 202-645-4532 and ask to speak with Ms. Auset for more information on how you can be a part of this exciting new group.
Are you excited about the Summer Olympics? Do you wish you could carry a flaming torch? The Library can't provide you with a real flaming torch, but we can help you to make a light-up pretend torch after preschool story time; and you can take your torch home with you!
As part of the Parklands-Turner Library Summer Reading Kickoff celebration from June 7 to June 10, all neighborhood preschool aged children are invited to participate in a special craft project following the 10:00 a.m. story time in the Children's area of the library on Tuesday, June 7.
Black Literature Book Club will meet on Tuesday, May 31 to discuss Okey Ndibe's novel, "Arrows of Rain". The meeting is at 2:00 p.m. Copies of the book are available at the circulation desk for members to checkout. There is still time for new members to join.
