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YA Reads: Young Adult Contemporary Romance and Romantasy

Posted about 2 days ago by Genevievre Wood

Posted in Book Reviews, Fiction, For Teens, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, romance, Teens, young adult | Tagged with #bookrecs, #yabooks, #yalit, #yareads, #yatrends, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, contemporary romance, reading suggestions, romance, romancereaders, romantasy, teenreads, ya, yabooks, yareads, young adult

Youth is an emotional whirlwind, and nothing captures that quite like Young Adult Contemporary Romance and Young Adult Romantasy. From high school halls to high fantasy, these stories vary in […]

YA Reads: Celebrating LGBTQ+ YA Nonfiction & Transgender and Nonbinary YA Fiction

Posted about 1 month ago by Genevievre Wood

Posted in Book Reviews, diverse reads, Fiction, For Teens, lgbtq, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens, young adult | Tagged with #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, booksforteens, reading suggestions, teenreads, ya, yabooks, yafiction, yanonfiction, yareads, young adult, youngadult, youngadultbooks

Happy Pride Month, Richmond! At Richmond Public Library we make sure that our collection reflects diverse identities and includes LGBTQIAP+ authors and characters no matter the month, but June is […]

Celebrate Pride Month with Richmond Public Library!

Posted about 1 month ago by James Vaughan

Posted in Book Reviews, celebrations, diverse reads, Families, Fiction, For Teens, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Picturebooks, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Teens, young adult | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, #childrensbooks, #kidsbooks, #rplrecommends, #yareads, adult, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, celebrations, Children's, LGBT, lgbtq, pride, Pride Month, pridemonth, queer, ya, young adult

March Book Chat with the YA Team

Posted about 4 months ago by Genevievre Wood

Posted in Book Reviews, Fiction, For Teens, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens, young adult | Tagged with #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, #teenreads, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, reading suggestions, teenbooks, teenreads, ya, yabookchat, yabooks, yafiction, yanonfiction, young adult, youngadult

GENEVIEVRE RECOMMENDS THE SWANS OF HARLEM BY KAREN VALBY The Swans of Harlem is a remarkable work of narrative nonfiction, focusing on the lives of five of the founding ballerinas […]

YA Reads: Fantasy, Mythology, Afrofuturism & Afrofantasy

Posted about 4 months ago by Genevievre Wood

Posted in Book Reviews, diverse reads, Fiction, For Teens, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Teens, young adult | Tagged with #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, afrofantasy, Afrofuturism, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, Fantasy, mythology, reading suggestions, teenbooks, teenreads, ya, yabooks, yafiction, yareads, young adult

Fantasy and Mythology are two genres that often captivate readers with their enchanting worlds and imaginative characters. Both featuring elements of the fantastic, they can capture readers’ imaginations and offer […]

YA Reads: Native American and Indigenous Peoples Month

Posted about 8 months ago by Genevievre Wood

Posted in Book Reviews, diverse reads, For Teens, holidays; celebrations, Native American Heritage, Teens, young adult | Tagged with #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, reading suggestions, teenreads, ya, yabooks, yareads, young adult

Richmond Public Library celebrates our Indigenous community members by recognizing Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month (also celebrated as Native American Heritage Month in the US), which takes place annually during the […]

Just What IS D&D?

Posted about 11 months ago by Louis Maranski

Posted in Adult | Tagged with adults, young adult

Dungeons and Dragons, usually shortened to D&D or DnD, is a game first published by Wizards of the CoastTM in 1974 that has become much more prominent and popular in […]

Slice-of-life graphic novels for all ages

Posted about 4 years ago by Alexandra Zukas

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with books for adults, children's books, graphic novels, reading suggestions, young adult

So when I say “slice of life,” you might be wondering what that means in terms of genre. In slice-of-life fiction, the story focuses on a short episode in a […]

Celebrating the Year of the Ox

Posted about 4 years ago by Laura Price

Posted in Adult, Asian American, Children's, Families, Holidays, Teens | Tagged with books for adults, children's books, Lunar New Year, picture books, teens, Year of the Ox, young adult

It's the Year of the Ox! Celebrate the Lunar New Year with a new book!

Meet Authors: Earn Extra Credit by A. B. Westrick

Posted about 8 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Events | Tagged with authors, yava, young adult

What’s it like to work as a bartender? Are you still teaching yoga? Will your travels to Ireland find a place in your next novel? Why’d you drop the research […]