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Beginner Sewing Machine Class - 3 Week Session Tuesdays/Saturdays (Session 5)

March 28
6:30pm - 7:45pm

Art Life & Job Skills

This sewing machine class is open to adults and older teens who are beginners looking to develop their sewing skills for personal use or as a marketable skill that can be used to support themselves or their families. Class is limited to six people, o...

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YAVA Award Celebration

April 22
2:00pm - 4:00pm

Author Visit

Join us for our annual Young Adult Virginia (YAVA) Award Celebration! This year our theme is "Retro Video Games" so, grab your controller and mark your calendars! Meet and mingle with your favorite Virginia authors of young adult literat...

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Beginner Sewing Machine Class - Saturday Classes (Session 6)

April 29
11:00am - 1:30pm

Art Life & Job Skills

This sewing machine class is open to adults and older teens who are beginners looking to develop their sewing skills for personal use or as a marketable skill that can be used to support themselves or their families. Class is limited to six people, o...

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Celebrate Children's Book Week- Disguise Ripple

May 01
12:00am - 11:59pm

Art

Come by any of our 9 branches and get a Ripple template. Then using whatever crafts you want, disguise Ripple as your favorite book character. We will put it on Biblioboard for a contest. Special prizes will be given to 1 winner at each branch in the...

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Celebrate Children's Book Week- Disguise Ripple

May 02
12:00am - 11:59pm

Art

Come by any of our 9 branches and get a Ripple template. Then using whatever crafts you want, disguise Ripple as your favorite book character. We will put it on Biblioboard for a contest. Special prizes will be given to 1 winner at each branch in the...

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YA Reads Best Served Cold

Jennifer Deuell
March 15, 2023
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In honor of the Ides of March, I thought I'd put together a little booklist for you full of YA books all about revenge. Who does revenge better than a teen scorned? No one! Whether scorned by love, embroiled in an age-old feud, or taking a stance against the patriarchy, literary teens just have a way of exacting the most brutal forms of vengeance. I'm sure at one point or another, many of us have been wronged and fantasized about retribution. But, if you're like me, you would never actually go through with it. So let's live vicariously through...

RPL Staff's Most Anticipated Reads of 2023

Jennifer Deuell
January 16, 2023
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With a new year brings lots of excitement surrounding the release of new books. And, no one is more excited for these than our staff here at Richmond Public Library. We polled staff on what books they're most excited to read in 2023 and here are a few of the titles they named. Summer Michau, Broad Rock Branch The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag by Sasha Velour (Release date: April 4, 2023) Sasha Velour won season 9 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, which has transcended from being a reality competition show to an international...

Read a Celeb Memoir — 2022 RAD Reading Challenge for Teens

Jennifer Deuell
October 28, 2022
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Hey hey readers! Welcome back to my next installment of the RAD Reading Challenge...RPL Style! For those of you that are new here, I've taken on local book blogger Rachel Dawson's 2022 reading challenge. But, I'm doing it with all YA books! It's been fun so far and if you'd like to go back and read any of my prior posts, they're all linked at the end. The prompt just completed was to "read a celeb memoir." This one was tough! There aren't that many celeb memoirs written for teen readers. So, for all you celebrities out there reading my blog...