Shepherd Park (Juanita E. Thornton) Neighborhood Library

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We will be making holiday crafts for all ages in the activity room on Dec. 2 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Please join us in making cards and handmade gifts for loved ones. All ages are welcome.Call Anina at 202-541-5917 with questions.

Eco Crafts Workshop

Presented by the National Children's Museum

The National Children’s Museum is offering a free parent/child workshop at Shepherd Park Library. The workshop if based on their book Family Literacy Projects on a Budget. The workshop will be held from 6-8:30 pm on Wednesday December 16th. Museum staff will present reading activities and ideas for complementary creative art projects using recycled materials.

Build Your Child’s Vocabulary

About.com provides tips for helping your preschooler learn new words.Tips include substituting synonyms (with examples), reinforcing the alphabet and rhyming.For more information, visit the About.com preschoolers’ page.

GED Test Prep

Through the Testing and Education Reference Center, the library offers three timed, full-length GED practice tests in English and two in Spanish. The site also provides Master the GED, a book with subject reviews, test-taking tips and test strategies. Other resources on the site are Word of the Day, a Quick Quiz, Tips and Strategies, and Test Info, Dates and Deadlines.

Pulitzer Prize Winners in Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize has been honoring excellence in journalism and the arts since 1917.Read these prize winners: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (2009) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (2008) The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2007) March by Geraldine Brooks (2006) Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2005) The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2004) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)