Would your child benefit from a Reading Buddy? The Juniorettes’ Reading Buddies is a cross-age, effective method of energizing young readers. Parkland elementary school age students are welcome to attend. When younger students read with older students, literacy skills are picked up in an enjoyable manner. Building partnerships between our high-achieving, high school girls and elementary-age children is an excellent way to reinforce lifelong reading success. Young students will build self-confidence and enhance literacy skills! Registration is not required. Please visit www.cityofparkland.org/library or call (954)757-4207 for more information.

Create a colorful stained glass lantern using glass jars, tissue paper and sequins! Parkland Library card required to register. To register visit www.cityofparkland.org/library or call (954)757-4207 for more information.

Oh, no! You are at a special place or witnessing an amazing event and your camera is back in your hotel room. Have no fear! Your iPhone camera is always handy and is an exceptional photo device once you know how to use it. This course is designed to help you take great iPhone photographs and process them to share with friends, family, or online. The two-day course will be taught by Alan Spitzer, a physician and a professional photographer, who has had numerous exhibits of his work around the country. Registration required. To register visit www.cityofparkland.org/library or call (954)757-4207.

Oh, no! You are at a special place or witnessing an amazing event and your camera is back in your hotel room. Have no fear! Your iPhone camera is always handy and is an exceptional photo device once you know how to use it. This course is designed to help you take great iPhone photographs and process them to share with friends, family, or online. The two-day course will be taught by Alan Spitzer, a physician and a professional photographer, who has had numerous exhibits of his work around the country. Registration required. To register visit www.cityofparkland.org/library or call (954)757-4207.

Sponsored by the Parkland Friends of the Library during the library’s operating hours these five days, the fair features used books. For more information, call 954-757-4203.

Local cartoonist Cory Laub will teach children to draw some of their favorite superheroes and cartoon characters while entertaining them with fun facts about animation and comic book trivia. It's a great time, and children will have a ton of fun while learning to draw! Parkland Library card required to register. To register visit www.cityofparkland.org/library or call (954)757-4207.

It’s 1961 and everything is changing in Florida. Jim Crow strains to maintain its hold, the Cold War escalates, the US space program hits its stride, and the Jewish Goldens, determined to begin a new pastoral life along Florida’s central east coast, are just trying to hold on to their small orange grove near the excitement of Cape Canaveral. In Goldens Are Here, author Andrew Furman imagines their unique struggles and dreams during a single tumultuous citrus season. Inspired by true events, Goldens Are Here offers a glimpse of the sea changes occurring in Florida and the nation in the 1960s through the prism of one family’s negotiations with the land, their neighbors, and with each other. Registration required. To register visit www.cityofparkland.org/library or call (954)757-4207.

Would your child benefit from a Reading Buddy? The Juniorettes’ Reading Buddies is a cross-age, effective method of energizing young readers. Parkland elementary school age students are welcome to attend. When younger students read with older students, literacy skills are picked up in an enjoyable manner. Building partnerships between our high-achieving, high school girls and elementary-age children is an excellent way to reinforce lifelong reading success. Young students will build self-confidence and enhance literacy skills! Registration is not required. Please visit www.cityofparkland.org/library or call (954)757-4207 for more information.

Stories hide in plain sight. They live and breathe in the life and lives of people and places around you. The cat lady next door as well as the old man working the tollbooth both have stories to tell. The best a writer can hope for is to tell it from the heart. Local author Lisa Colodny will lead this interactive discussion about how to tell a story – from short stories to screenplays and everything in between. Registration required. To register visit www.cityofparkland.org/library or call (954)757-4207.

Search your closet for your coziest mittens and boots, the City of Parkland presents Snowfest 2018. On Thursday, December 20th from 5:00-8:00pm a frosty cold front will come through Pine Trails Park. This event is open to Parkland residents only and requires registration in advance for $5 per person. Featuring dual snow slides as tall as mountains, toddler slide and snow area, crafts, music, food trucks, and more. We bring in more than 50 tons of snow to transform the park into a winter wonderland.

Kids, teens and adults will have fun family bonding time making these novel but easy projects: artsy sculptures made by folding the pages of a book! No experience necessary. All materials will be provided. Parkland Library card required to register. To register visit www.cityofparkland.org/library or call (954)757-4207.

Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing one another to endure and discovering strength they never knew possible. Starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba. Registration required. To register visit www.cityofparkland.org/library or call (954)757-4207.