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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
Inspire a new generation of Swifties with these fun titles:
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 Awards 2024
03/23/2024
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).
Find the availability and location of each of these titles OR place a hold to pick up at your local library at:
International Women’s Day
03/08/2024
End your doomscroll with these great online resources!
Word of the Week: Doomscroll
02/09/2024