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A Librarian’s Summer TBR Pile
Here are my summer reading choices for 2024, and hopefully one or more will speak to you as well. The first three, I hope to get to in the month of June, the last two I’m hoping to finish in July and August (respectively).
Five fascinating reads about grief for Mental Health Awareness Month
Find insights for Mental Health Awareness Month from five grieving authors who chart intimate journeys through their shaken worlds.
Not Too Young for This: Chronic Illness and Disability in Young Adult Books
Fiction can be windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors to all kinds of identities, chronically ill and disabled included. These seven young adult books offer varied experiences and responses to life with a chronic illness or disability as a teen.
Promoting Early Literacy Through DC Public Library's STAR Program
On April 27, the DC Public Library will host its annual STAR Fest, a free family celebration promoting early literacy development.
Passing
A historically and culturally significant part of the history of Black American experience, passing was the tactical measure used by some Blacks to evade US segregation. Mixed race African Americans with little to no visible African ancestry were able to pass as White in the US to gain economic and social status and to escape oppression and degradation that were inherent during the construction of race, Jim Crow discrimination and segregation in the US.
DC Public Library Foundation Partners with Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy
The Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy (IREL) is back for its 5th year and another beautiful summer of powerful learning. Join co-directors Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul and Tricia Ebarvia along with educators from across the country as we gather in Washington, D.C., at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library.