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Storytime Southside’s Preschool Storytime aims to foster a love for reading and stimulate imagination in young minds. Through engaging stories, interactive activities, and creative play, this storytime aims to create an enjoyable and educational experience for children aged 3 to 5. |
Scavenger Hunt This passive program is held within the children’s area of the library. It allows younger patrons to familiarize themselves with the library while completing the hidden message. Each month there is a new theme, hidden objects and a message or quote for the children to decode. Once they have completed the hunt, they turn in their message, and retrieve a prize! |
Lego Club Embark on a creative journey with our LEGO Club. This engaging program is tailored for those ages 6-11, providing an opportunity for children to come together and explore the wonderful world of LEGO building. |
Rock Garden This event is for children ages 6-11 to enjoy a hands-on art activity together. Participants will choose their favorite stones and transform them into colorful, whimsical pieces of art that can be added to a community rock garden or taken home as unique keepsakes. The rock garden would be housed on the library property. |
Science Saturdays Calling all young scientists ages 6-11! Join us for Science Saturday at the library, where we'll explore exciting experiments, hands-on activities, and fascinating discoveries. It's the perfect way to spark curiosity and have fun with science, from egg-rockets to creating your own slime! |
Special Programming Look to our online calendar to stay in the know about all spring and holiday events. St. Patrick's Day puzzle wreath, rock garden painting, Creek Week, Earth Day, tie-dye crafts and much more! |
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Book Walk First Saturday of the Month 10 a.m.
Book Walk is a walking book club hosted by the Southside Branch Library that begins at the Cobblestone Farmers Market entrance and continues around Washington Park and back. Grab some comfortable shoes, a water bottle and join us as we discuss this month’s thriller or horror. Get your copy from the Southside Library front desk. Registration and RSVP is required online. Any changes due to weather conditions will be sent out the morning of the meeting. Use the link below to join! |
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Southside Book Club Second Monday of the Month at 6 p.m.
This traditional and well-established book club provides dynamic conversations and excellent snacks. We have eclectic book choices that incorporate the tastes of the whole group. Get your copy of this month’s title at the Southside Library front desk. Use the link below to find out more. |
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Gardening Workshops We have an array of gardening workshops coming to the Southside Branch Library. Gardening for well-being, attracting pollinators and how to plant and nurture a tree are just a few of the upcoming themes. Register for a class through our online calendar!
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Looking for some Spring Reads? Look what's popping up! |
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Emily Wilde's compendium of lost tales : a novel
by Heather Fawcett
Renowned faerie scholar Emily Wilde must navigate the deadly intrigues of a faerie realm as they seize Wendell's throne and race to break a deadly curse, in the third novel of the series following Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands.
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Junie : a novel
by Erin Crosby Eckstine
Sixteen-year-old slave Junie tends to master's daughter Violet at Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, but when Violet's potential marriage leads Junie to commit a desperate act that rouses sister Minnie's spirit, she enlists coachman Caleb's help as horrifying secrets are revealed.
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Loca : a novel
by Alejandro Heredia
In 1999 in New York, when book-loving science nerd Sal finds love at a gay club one night, life for him and his best friend, young mother Charo, unexpectedly opens up to a vibrant social circle that pushes them to consider what they owe to themselves and to each other.
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The bones beneath my skin
by TJ Klune
In 1995, after losing everything, Nate Cartwright retreats to his family's summer cabin in Roseland, Oregon, only to find it occupied by a man named Alex and a remarkable girl named Artemis Darth Vader; as cultists and government forces close in, Nate must choose between despair and hope.
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Forsyth County Public Library
660 W. Fifth St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101
336-703-2665forsythlibrary.org |
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