Lola loves to hear Daddy read a new library book each night, an activity that spurs her imagination and results in inventive play the next day.

A voracious young reader pens a love letter to libraries and books, and powerfully expresses the need for diversity and the importance of represe

Lola loves to hear Daddy read a new library book each night, an activity that spurs her imagination and results in inventive play the next day.

Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago

In this powerful story about the Great Migration, a boy discovers Chicago's postwar South Side, a library that welcomes everyone, and the poetry

Every Tuesday, Lola and her mother go to the library to borrow new books for Mom to read to her before bedtime.

Emma, the daughter of poor migrant workers, longs to own a real book, and when she turns eight and must attend school for the first time, she is

Lola reads story books to her new baby brother Leo, and even though Mommy and Daddy are busy, they still have time to read to Lola at bedtime.

Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully,

Based on a scene from Wright's autobiography, Black boy, in which the seventeen-year-old African-American borrows a white man's library card and

Nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when he'll be able to read.

In what other place can a child "sail their dreams" and "surf the rainbow" without ever leaving the room? This ode to libraries is a celebration