Taylor Community Library

Teen Volunteer Group*
2025-04-23 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-05-07 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-05-21 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-06-04 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-06-18 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Detroit) | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Teen Volunteer Group*
Are you a teen who’s looking for volunteer hours? Join our Teen Volunteer Group!
Teen volunteers help plan, implement, and promote ways to improve services offered at TCL. Joining our group builds your resume, earns you volunteer hours, and gives you a chance to be heard. Tasks will include helping the library with collection maintenance, programming prep, maintaining the TCL Tiny Taylor Library, and more!
We meet every other Wednesday at 4 p.m. in person at the library.
*Want to earn volunteer hours for this? Visit our Volunteer page to see if space is available and to sign up!

Read & Respond to Poetry
2025-04-24 15:00 - 16:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Read & Respond to Poetry
Calling all poets!
It’s National Poetry Month!!!
We will have one of the front Community Rooms available to start reading and writing poetry every Thursday in the month of April, from 3 to 4:30pm.
It’ll be a space for you to read the poetry books you’ve been meaning to get to and then respond to them in any way that you choose.
Feeling bold?
Read a favorite poem of yours to the group or your own, and the audience will get the choice to write or verbally give their response to the poem.
Are you up for the challenge?

Spring Teen Craft
2025-04-30 17:00 - 18:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Spring Teen Craft
Ages 12-17 are welcome to join us for our Teen craft hour. We will have supplies for various crafts set up so teens can choose how they want to express their creativity. We’ll have stuff to make flower mason jar lanterns, tissue paper flowers, teen-level coloring sheets, and more.

Movie Day
2025-05-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Movie Day
Come join us for a movie day. We will set out chairs in one of the front Community Rooms to enjoy the movie Patch Adams (PG-13).

T(w)een Book Club
2025-05-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
T(w)een Book Club
T(w)een Book Club is a monthly book club suggested for tweens and teens ages 12-17 where we will read age-appropriate titles from all genres, have a snack, and do a book-related activity!
Copies of our monthly book will be placed on hold and can be picked up from our front desk before our meeting. Most of the time they are also available on Hoopla or Libby
We will take time to share thoughts on the book and chat about our general reading interests!
This month’s book is Buzzing by Samuel Sattin

Isaac Itkin can’t get away from his thoughts.
As a lonely twelve-year-old kid with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), everything from studying to looking in the mirror becomes a battle between him and a swarm of unhelpful thoughts.
The strict therapy his mother insists on doesn’t seem to be working, but when a group of friends invites him to join their after-school role-playing game, the thoughts feel a little less loud, and the world feels a little brighter.
But Isaac’s therapist says that exposure to games can have negative effects on kids with OCD, and when his grades slip, his helicopter mother won’t let him play anymore. Now Isaac needs to find a way to prove to himself, to his mother, and to the world that the way to quiet the noise in his head may have been inside him all along.

Puzzle Exchange
2025-05-12 10:00 - 19:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Puzzle Exchange
Tired of doing the same old puzzles? Stop by our puzzle exchange and swap them for new ones! From 10am till 7pm we will have one of our community rooms designated for puzzle swapping. Simply stop in, place the puzzles you no longer want on the table, and grab the ones you do want. There is no limit to how many puzzles you can drop off or take home.
THE FINE PRINT: Please only donate puzzles that have all their pieces to the best of your knowledge. Any puzzles not taken by the end of the event will either be put in our puzzle collection for circulation or recycled. You can drop off your puzzles ahead of time as early as Monday, May 5th.

Creative Writing Challenge
2025-05-12 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-06-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Creative Writing Challenge
Calling all creative writers! We will meet at one of the front Community Rooms the second Monday of every month, from 3:00-4:00pm. Everyone will be given a prompt, and your job will be to take this prompt to find words on signs, pictures, artwork, book spines, overheard phrases/quotes, etc. on library grounds and write them down. When everyone has something, they will come back to the room and we will put together what we have found.

Sew Crafty
2025-05-13 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-05-20 17:30 - 19:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Sew Crafty
Sew Crafty is a weekly lab for textile crafters to come together and work on their projects. If you love to quilt, sew, knit, crochet, embroider, needlepoint, or any other textile crafting, this is the place for you! An instructor will be available to teach you how to quilt, or to guide you on your projects. This is a weekly lab that is open on Tuesdays from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. This is a collaborative, inter-generational crafting group intended for kids, teens, and adults. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

Family Yoga
2025-05-15 17:45 - 18:45 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Family Yoga
Join Mrs. Carissa for a family yoga class. This class is open to children and their caregivers and we will practice movement and finding our breath in different Yoga poses. If you are between the ages of 12-17 you do not need a caregiver to accompany you, but they are more than welcome to join. Please bring your own yoga mat if possible. We do have 10 yoga mats for use, but they will be handed out on a first-come-first-served basis.

Bark for Books*
2025-05-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Bark for Books
Celebrate reading month with our favorite furry friends. Read aloud to a trained therapy dog for 15 minutes. Children and teens can also use their 15 minutes to practice book reports or speeches for school, or whatever you think will build their confidence in their reading and speaking skills. There are 16 slots open to read or speak aloud to a therapy dog and registration is required. They love to hear all the stories and get all the pets, so call or stop in the library to sign up starting 10 a.m. May 8!
*Registration Required

LIBRARY CLOSED
2025-05-24, 2025-05-26, 2025-06-19 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States

Sew Crafty
2025-05-27 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-06-03 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-06-10 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-06-17 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-06-24 17:30 - 19:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Sew Crafty
Sew Crafty is a weekly lab for textile crafters to come together and work on their projects. If you love to quilt, sew, knit, crochet, embroider, needlepoint, or any other textile crafting, this is the place for you! This is a weekly lab that is open on Tuesdays from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. This is a collaborative, inter-generational crafting group intended for kids, teens, and adults. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

Pride Month Movie Day
2025-05-31 15:00 - 17:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Pride Month Movie Day
Treat yourself to a free movie, where you don’t have to bother with sneaking in snacks. Come join us for a movie, bring your own snacks, and enjoy some time away from home. We will be watching To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! (PG-13). Open to teens (13+) and adults.

Bug Out with Art in the Park
2025-06-05 16:00 - 18:30 | Sheridan Pavilion, 12111 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Bug Out with Art in the Park
Join the Guidance Center in collaboration with the Taylor Community Library for our annual Art in the Park event with a Bugged-Out twist! This year we will have crafts and plenty of activities to soak up the early summer sun. Some activities include a live music & movement, balloon animals, face painting, bubble play area, bug catching kits, a bug exhibit on wheels and more. We will also have free snacks, water, and ice cream while supplies last. This event is for families, please register using the link below, (walk-ins are welcome).
www.guidance-center.org/kids-art-in-the-park

T(w)een Book Club
2025-06-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
T(w)een Book Club
T(w)een Book Club is a monthly book club suggested for tweens and teens ages 12-17 where we will read age-appropriate titles from all genres, have a snack, and do a book-related activity!
Copies of our monthly book will be placed on hold and can be picked up from our front desk before our meeting. Most of the time they are also available on Hoopla or Libby
We will take time to share thoughts on the book and chat about our general reading interests!
This month’s book is Blood City Rollers by V.P. Anderson

Ice-skater Mina is on a one-track path to Olympic gold and glory—that is, until she totally wipes out at her biggest competition, and is kinda-sorta-kidnapped by undead kids on roller skates. Sucked into the high stakes world of Paranormal Roller Derby, she finds herself “recruited” by a squad of vampires who need a human player to complete their team—just in time to save the league from losing it all.
Between learning to play derby well enough to kick butt on the track, crushing hard on the dreamy team captain, and navigating the spooky rules of the supernatural, how can Mina go from striving to be a ten alone, to becoming one of nine chaotic bodies forming a perfectly-imperfect team? Forget being the best. Will she be enough to help her new friends survive the season?

Pride Month Movie Day
2025-06-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Pride Month Movie Day
Treat yourself to a free movie, where you don’t have to bother with sneaking in snacks. Come join us for a movie, bring your own snacks, and enjoy some time away from home. We will be watching Love, Simon (PG-13). Open to teens (13+) and adults.

Library Pride
2025-06-18 17:00 - 18:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Library Pride
Join us for a night of crafts with resources set out about Pride! We’ll be making pearler beads, tissue paper rainbows, and more. We’ll also have special guests Pride in Downriver joining us to share resources and information about their community programs/work.

4H: Garden to Table Workshop*
2025-06-20 14:00 - 15:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
4H: Garden to Table Workshop
In this hands-on program supported by the Michigan State University 4-H Extension program, youth will explore the journey of food from seed to plate! Participants will learn how to plant and care for a garden, harvest fresh produce, and turn their homegrown ingredients into simple, healthy meals. Activities promote teamwork, environmental awareness, and healthy living through fun and engaging gardening and cooking experiences. This program is for youth ages 10 – 17. Sign up using the link below and feel free to call the library if you need help registering.
https://www.canr.msu.edu/events/garden-to-table-summer-workshops
There will be 3 separate courses and you are welcome to come to all as a series or one that interests you! The courses are:
June 20, 2-3:30pm Plant It, Grow It, Eat It! Youth will learn the basics of gardening, including how to start seeds, transplant seedlings, and care for plants. Participants will create their own mini container gardens to take home, using herbs or veggies that are easy to grow.
July 25, 4-5:30pm Harvest & Snack! Participants will explore how to identify when produce is ripe and ready to harvest. They’ll pick garden-grown fruits and vegetables, learn about their nutritional value, and prepare a sample.
August 22, 4-5:30pm Keep it Fresh! Learn simple ways to make your garden harvest last longer! Youth will explore easy preservation methods like quick pickling, drying herbs, and freezing produce.
