Award Winners
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2024 YAVA Award Celebration & Winner
Posted about 2 days ago by Genevievre Gray
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Award Winners, For Teens, Teens
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Richmond Public Library hosted the 11th annual Young Adult Virginia Author (YAVA) Award Celebration on April 20th, 2024. The Main Library Auditorium transformed into a whimsical tent of wonders, and […]
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2023 YAVA Award Celebration & Winner
Posted about 12 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Award Winners, Teens
The Young Adult Virginia Author (YAVA) Award Celebration commemorated its tenth year on April 22 with an afternoon of fun, food, and most importantly, books! This year’s theme was “retro […]
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Black History Books: A 2023 Review
Posted about 1 year ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Award Winners, Black History Month, diverse reads, History and Preservation, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations
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In Virginia, it is generally believed that African American History began with the importation of West Africans into Jamestown in 1619. After the Civil War, the Daughters of the Confederacy […]
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Common Book Reading List
Posted about 2 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Adult, Award Winners, book discussions, Book Reviews, diverse reads, History and Preservation, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, VCU Common Book
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We hope you are looking forward to the upcoming programs that the Richmond Public Library has planned in support of the 2022 VCU Common Book, The Organ Thieves. Whether you […]
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By Teens, For Teens – The Giver & Other YA Classics
Posted about 2 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Adult, Award Winners, Reading Recommendations, Teens
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Welcome back to another installment of By Teens, For Teens, a blog post series where RPL VolunTEENs make book and movie recommendations for you! This week is for our readers […]
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By Teens, For Teens – Gone with the Wind (the book & the movie)
Posted about 2 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Adult, Award Winners, Book Reviews, Movies, Teens
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This week, Isabelle R., age 16 has some high praise for the old classic, Gone with the Wind. She takes on both the book and the movie in her reviews, […]
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2022 Youth Media Awards Winners
Posted about 2 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Award Winners, Children's, Reading Recommendations, Teens
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For those of you who are fans of children’s and young adult literature, the Youth Media Awards are probably as exciting as the Oscars or the Grammys. The Youth Media […]
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