For Teens
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Celebrate Disability Pride Month with RPL’s YA Collection
Posted about 11 months ago by Genevievre Wood
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Book Reviews, Disability Pride Month, diverse reads, For Teens, Teens
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Disability Pride Month is celebrated annually during the month of July, commemorating the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. This landmark civil rights law prohibits discrimination based […]
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Celebrate Juneteenth with RPL’s YA Collection
Posted about 12 months ago by Genevievre Wood
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Book Reviews, celebrations, diverse reads, For Teens, Juneteenth, Teens
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Juneteenth marks a very important day in American history. On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger and around 2,000 Union troops ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation […]
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Celebrating YA LGBTQ+ Voices
Posted about 12 months ago by Genevievre Wood
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Book Reviews, diverse reads, Fiction, For Teens, Reading Recommendations, Teens
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Happy Pride Month from Richmond Public Library! Celebrate by checking out some of our diverse YA books written by LGBTQ+ authors and/or featuring LGBTQ+ main characters.
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month – YA Collection
Posted about 1 year ago by Genevievre Wood
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Asian American, Fiction, For Teens, Reading Recommendations, Teens
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Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month from Richmond Public Library! Celebrate by checking out some of our diverse YA books written by AAPI authors and featuring AAPI characters […]
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2024 YAVA Award Celebration & Winner
Posted about 1 year ago by Genevievre Wood
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Award Winners, For Teens, Teens
| Tagged with awardwinners, booksforteens, forteens, ireadya, teenreads, teens, youngadult
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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Let’s Celebrate Black History!
Posted about 1 year ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Audiobooks, Biographies, Black History Month, book discussions, celebrations, Children's, Comics, diverse reads, Events, Families, For Teens, Graphic Novels, History and Preservation, Picturebooks, Poetry, reading suggestions
| Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #childrensbooks, Afrofuturism, authors, Black History Month, celebrations, Harlem Renaissance, Hip Hop, Seniors, Teen Activities
Let’s celebrate Black History through the arts at the Richmond Public Library!
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April is National Poetry Month
Posted about 2 years ago by Lisa Crisman
National Poetry Month “Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month is a special occasion that celebrates poets’ integral role in our culture and that […]
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PERSONAL FINANCE for EVERYONE
Posted about 3 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Events, For Teens, Health and Wellness, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with adulting, Author Talk, authors, consumer, Financial Literacy, first job, Home Economics, Law Library, local authors, nonfiction, Personal Finance, reading suggestions, saving and investment, teenreads, teens
Since when is Personal Finance a thing? When the world got super complicated, apparently. No longer is it just a decision of whether to put your money under the mattress, […]
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