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Find Your Next Great Read @ the Library

Meg Raymond
May 29, 2024
book-reviews

Richmond Public Library has something for everyone Check out these new or newly updated booklists on the RPL Readers page All Five Senses fiction you can see, hear, feel, smell, or taste It's All Relative: Getting Above Your Raising memoirs of overcoming toxic childhoods It's All Relative: Family Secrets memoirs about things we don't talk about It's All Relative: Families Sure are Funny funny memoirs about families Danger! Plot Twists Ahead fiction with unexpected twists and...

Storytime at Home: Adventure!

book-reviews
childrens

Welcome to the Storytime at Home series! Every other week, we share a list of book options tied to a kid-approved theme, a craft you can set up to go along with the theme, songs/rhymes you can do during storytime, and additional enrichment activities. All books are available at Richmond Public Library, and crafts will involve items you likely have at home already! Our hope is that we can make it easy for you to share stories with your little ones and create a little bit of library magic at home.  P.S. Love library storytimes? Take a...

May Book Chat with the Youth Services Team

childrens
families
reading-recommendations

Welcome to the another installment in our series of blog posts featuring children's books we're currently loving! "Book Chat with the Youth Services Team" features one book recommendation from each of our Youth Services team members. We cover a variety of books from fiction to non-fiction, picture books to chapter books, graphic novels and more! We hope that this month's reading recommendations get you excited about some awesome new books we've added to our collection as well as some oldies but goodies....

Storytime at Home: Bugs!

book-reviews
childrens

Welcome to the Storytime at Home series! Every other week, we share a list of book options tied to a kid-approved theme, a craft you can set up to go along with the theme, songs/rhymes you can do during storytime, and additional enrichment activities. All books are available at Richmond Public Library, and crafts will involve items you likely have at home already! Our hope is that we can make it easy for you to share stories with your little ones and create a little bit of library magic at home.  P.S. Love library storytimes? Take a...

Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month - YA Collection

fiction
for-teens
reading-recommendations
teens

Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month from Richmond Public Library! Celebrate by checking out some of our diverse YA books written by AAPI authors and featuring AAPI characters from throughout East, Southeast, & South Asia. Click on the titles below to be linked directly to the book in our catalog. [wpmfpdf id="42331" embed="1"...