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Juneteenth

06/19/2024

Bob Marley

AGES BIRTH-4 Y/O


Children are encouraged to resist bullying and stand up for their rights.

Get up, stand up

Michelle Cook

AGES 5+


A celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the pioneers of change.

Our children can soar

Glenda Armand

Love twelve miles long

Ages 8+


In 1820s Maryland, Frederick's mother, who is a slave on a different plantation, walks twelve miles each way for a nighttime visit with her son...

Jaqueline Woodson

BROWN GIRL DREAMING

Grades 6 - 12


The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South

Kaitlyn Greenidge

Adult/Fiction


Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her mother, a physician, has a vision for their future together...

libertie

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Annette Gordon-Reed

Adult/Non-Fiction


The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native.

On Juneteenth

Daina Ramey Berry

Adult/Non-Fiction


A critical survey of black women's complicated legacy in America, as it takes into account their exploitation and victimization as well as their undeniable and substantial contributions to the country since its inception.

a black women’s history

Natalie Baszile

Adult/Non-Fiction


Celebrating African American farmers, land, and legacy.

we are each other’s harvest

Isabel Wilkerson

Adult/Non-Fiction


A chronicle of one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South...

the warmth of other suns

Edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha Blain

Adult/Non-Fiction


A 'choral history' of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers...

Four Hundred Souls

Word of the Week: Swiftie

04/18/2024

National Poetry Month

04/17/2024

Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world...

Time is a Mother

Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality...

Lighthead: Poems

Eve Ewing

Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose.

Electric Arches

Sharon Creech

Love That Dog shows how one boy named Jack finds his voice with the help of a teacher, a pencil, some yellow paper, and of course, a dog. Written as a series of free-verse poems...

Love That Dog

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Lucille Clifton

New and selected poems, 1988-2000 by one of the most distinguished poets working today.

Blessing the Boats

SCASL Book Award Nominees

Each year the South Carolina Association of School Librarians (SCASL) gives an award to the best book in four categories: Picture, Children’s, Junior, and Young Adult. There are a number of nominees in each category and the Library makes sure to have copies available in both print and/or as an eBook.


Find the lists for the 2024-2025 Nominees linked below (mobile) or to the right (desktop).


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International Women’s Day

03/08/2024

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Darlington, SC 29532

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Hartsville, SC 29550

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Lamar, SC 29069

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Society Hill, SC 29593

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