yabooks

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Celebrate Disability Pride Month with RPL’s YA Collection

Posted about 1 year ago by Genevievre Wood
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 1 year ago by Genevievre Wood
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 1 year ago by Genevievre Wood
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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The 2021 RPL Teen Reading Challenge

Posted about 5 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
I have a love hate relationship with reading challenges. I tried one in 2019 with mixed results. You can read more about that here. I tend to feel super inspired […]
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YA Books with Jewish Protagonists

Posted about 5 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
I initially set out wanting to write this post about YA Hanukkah books; however, there are not many (or any) of those.  That’s a bummer! If you are a Jewish […]
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