Children & Families Discover Stories

Family Story Times

10:30 a.m. Monday, Dec. 5

Story Times start again Jan. 9.All ages welcome with adult.

Black Diamond After-School Book Bunch at Black Diamond Elementary

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

3:45 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 15

Ages 8 to 12, parents and siblings welcome.

Eat free pizza, play games and talk about books in the Black Diamond Elementary School Library.

This book group is open to all, but BDE students staying after school must bring a permission slip from their grown-up on the day of book group. Parents will need to sign out their children with the librarian by 4:45 p.m.

Ready-Set-Read

If you are in elementary school, take the Reading Challenge.

Read at least 20 minutes per day for 20 days and choose a new paperback book at your community library.

Forms are available at the library.

Teens

Read Three, Get One Free

Read three books, write three thoughtful reviews and get a prize book for free.

Forms are available at the library.

Adults

The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair And Its Legacy

7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3Held at Baker Street Books, 32709 Railroad Ave., Black Diamond.

The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair had it all. The era and its people come to life in The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair and Its Legacy – a new, coffee-table-style book filled with history, stories and pictures to celebrate the fair’s upcoming 50th anniversary.

Meet authors and HistoryLink.org historians Paula Becker and Alan Stein as they discuss the people and events that made this fair unique.

Black Diamond Library 3rd Tuesday Book Club

Ape House by Sara Gruen

7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20

Friends of the Black Diamond Library Monthly Meeting

7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21