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Recently asked to do RA training with staff, we decided to focus on diversity and inclusion. Here's an outline of what that training looks like.
My latest YA contemporary, Serious Moonlight, is a book about Birdie and Daniel, two teens who meet one rainy afternoon in Seattle and impulsively decide to hook up. Unfortunately, the experience is bumbling and embarrassing. Birdie’s only solace is that she’ll never see him again, but alas, when she lands a job working the front […]
How to extend toddlers' attention spans and model mindful practices.
I’d first heard about Irish Industrial Schools during a trip to Ireland. A book titled Fear of the Collar by Patrick Touher came up during a conversation at an event I was attending. The story was an account of his experience in the Artaine Industrial School, run by the Christian Brothers. I bought the book […]
“Have you ever been told you are not enough?” With this opening line, author-cartoonist Joel Christian Gill grabs the attention of readers of all ages and introduces us to the legendary Bessie Stringfield, the first African American woman to ride solo across the United States on a motorcycle.
In Atlanta, graduation rates among black students went up 17 percent with a new SEL program. Hispanic students showed a 25 percent rise.
Financial literacy, game night, and World Refugee Day programs are some family-oriented activities at libraries this summer.
In Wreck, Tobin has a lot of choices to make—ones most high school juniors don’t generally make, thank goodness. She’s choosing what to do with her future, which is typical, but she also has to choose how to interact with her dad, Steve, who has ALS and frontotemporal dementia, and what to do about his request to possibly assist in his death.
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