Join in a virtual Author’s Corner featuring J. Courtney Sullivan as she reads from her new book Friends and Strangers at 7p.m. on Tuesday, July 14th.
More information coming soon!
Please register here!
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Summer Reading Club 2020.
Imagine Your Story.
Starting June 22nd, sign up for Summer Reading Club ONLINE!
Earn virtual badges as you track your reading progress. Earn additional badges for participating in fun activities!
Can the Children’s Room together read more than 250,000 minutes this summer?
Teens – we have a fun summer for you too!
Adults – join the fun for your Summer Reading Challenge too!
Children
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman
Black Is A Rainbow Color by Angela Joy and Ekua Holmes
Let The Children March by Monica Clark- Robinson
New Kid by Jerry Craft
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
Mixed A Colorful Story by Arree Chung
Something Happened In Our Town by Marianne Celano
We Rise We Resist We Raise Our Own Voices edited by Wade Hudson
Please also take a look at our Children’s room Diversity book list
Teen
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Double Victory by Cheryl Mullenbach
A Few Red Drops by Claire Hartfield
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
It’s Trevor Noah: Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
Harlem Hellfighters by Walter Dean Myers
March by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Loving vs Virginia by Patricia Hruby Powell
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Riot by Walter Dean Myers
Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
Please also take a look at our Diverse Stories Teen Voices booklist
Adults
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Essential Gwendolyn Brooks by Gwendolyn Brooks
Hitting A Straight Lick With A Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
Home by Toni Morrison
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
How to be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Lakewood by Megan Giddings
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Stony The Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrica Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
How to Fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon
I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street by Matt Taibbi
On Account of Race by Lawrence Goldstone
Stay Woke by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith
Join friends old and new for a lively VIRTUAL book discussion of the July title, Food Heroes: 16 Culinary Artisans Preserving Tradition by Georgia Pellegrini!
The meeting will be held through the remote conferencing platform, Zoom on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 7:30 PM. If you would like to join in, please register online by Monday, July 27 so the Library can send you the invitation link.
If you don’t have a physical copy, it is available as an e-book to Melrose residents with a library card through our online digital resource Hoopla. If you are not a Melrose resident, check with your local library to see if Hoopla is available or if you are a Massachusetts resident apply for a virtual e-card through the Boston Public Library!
Creativebug is our newest digital resource! Nurture your creative side with 1000+ video classes in painting, knitting, crafting, sewing & more!
Using your library card and PIN, create your own account for free and get crafting!
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