Shelf Respect
News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
Celebrate Juneteenth with RPL’s YA Collection
Posted about 1 month ago by Genevievre Gray
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Book Reviews, celebrations, diverse reads, For Teens, Juneteenth, Teens
| Tagged with book recommendations, booksforteens, teenreads, yabooks
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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June Book Chat with the Youth Services Team
Posted about 1 month ago by Lisa Wiertel
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Children's, Families, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #bookchat, #bookrecs, #childrenbookrecommendations, #childrensbooks, #kidsbooks, #picturebook recommendations, #richmondlibrary, #rplrecommends, #youthservices, picturebooks, richmond, ripple
Welcome to the another installment in our series of blog posts featuring children’s books we’re currently loving! “Book Chat with the Youth Services Team” features one book recommendation from each […]
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Storytime at Home: Beach Days
Posted about 2 months ago by Sarah Fenninger
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Book Reviews, Children's
| Tagged with #bookchat, #bookrecs, #childrensbooks, #kidsbooks, #rplrecommends, #storytimeathome, storytime at home
Welcome to the Storytime at Home series! Every other week, we share a list of book options tied to a kid-approved theme, a craft you can set up to go […]
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Celebrating YA LGBTQ+ Voices
Posted about 2 months ago by Genevievre Gray
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Book Reviews, diverse reads, Fiction, For Teens, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, teenreads, yabooks
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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Children’s Books Set In Richmond and Virginia! (Part 2)
Posted about 2 months ago by Lisa Wiertel
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Biographies, Children's, diverse reads, Fiction, nonfiction, Picturebooks, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions
| Tagged with books, child, children, children's books, richmond, Richmond Public Library, RPL, virginia
This is the 2nd installment of a series of blog posts highlighting children’s books that include Richmond and Virginia as the location. It is always fun to read books that […]
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Find Your Next Great Read @ the Library
Posted about 2 months ago by Meg Raymond
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Book Reviews
Richmond Public Library has something for everyone Check out these new or newly updated booklists on the RPL Readers page All Five Senses fiction you can see, hear, feel, smell, […]
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Storytime at Home: Adventure!
Posted about 2 months ago by Sarah Fenninger
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Book Reviews, Children's
| Tagged with #bookchat, #bookrecs, #childrensbooks, #kidsbooks, #rplrecommends, #storytimeathome, storytime at home
Welcome to the Storytime at Home series! Every other week, we share a list of book options tied to a kid-approved theme, a craft you can set up to go […]
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May Book Chat with the Youth Services Team
Posted about 2 months ago by Lisa Wiertel
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Children's, Families, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with #bookchat, #bookrecs, #childrenbookrecommendations, #childrensbooks, #kidsbooks, #picturebook recommendations, #richmondlibrary, #rplrecommends, #youthservices, picturebooks, richmond, ripple
Welcome to the another installment in our series of blog posts featuring children’s books we’re currently loving! “Book Chat with the Youth Services Team” features one book recommendation from each […]
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Storytime at Home: Bugs!
Posted about 2 months ago by Sarah Fenninger
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Book Reviews, Children's
| Tagged with #bookchat, #bookrecs, #childrensbooks, #kidsbooks, #rplrecommends, #storytimeathome, storytime at home
Welcome to the Storytime at Home series! Every other week, we share a list of book options tied to a kid-approved theme, a craft you can set up to go […]
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month – YA Collection
Posted about 3 months ago by Genevievre Gray
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Asian American, Fiction, For Teens, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with book recs, booksforteens, ireadya, reading suggestions, teenreads
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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