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These picks from adult fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novel could help you earn the Badger Badge for this year's Summer Reading Challenge on Beanstack! These picks from the adult fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novel shelves could help you earn the Puffin Badge for this year's Summer Reading Challenge on Beanstack!
These picks from the adult nonfiction shelves could help you earn the Cat Badge for this year's Summer Reading Challenge on Beanstack!
These picks from the adult fiction and nonfiction shelves could help you earn the Whale Badge for this year's Summer Reading Challenge on Beanstack!
May is Foster Care Month. Monroe Public Library has partnered with Green County Human Services to bring information to our patrons about becoming a foster parent. Here are some additional resources from our shelves.
Books for big kids and teens:
A note from Laura: a number of blockbuster hit books over the last decade have been historical novels that follow women's stories. Many of these books fictionalize the lives of real women, and others delve into intriguing historical periods. Here are a few titles you might like if you enjoy character-centered historical fiction:
Black in the Middle: an Anthology of the Black Midwest, ed. Terrion Williamson, 977.04 BLA The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, Aaron Bobrow-Strain, 972.1 BOB * The Yellow House, Sarah Broom, 814 BRO * The Heritage, Howard Bryant, 306.483 BRY Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, 305.8 COA *ª An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 970.004 DUN *ª Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong, 305.4895 HON I Am Not Your Negro, DVD 323.1196 IAM Survival Math, Mitchell S. Jackson, 305.8 JAC Wandering in Strange Lands, Morgan Jerkins, 305.89 JER *ª Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi, 305.8 KEN * Conditional Citizens, Laila Lalami, 323.6 LAL ª Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon, 305.89 LAY *ª The Making of Black Lives Matter, Christopher J. Lebron, 305.896 LEB Brown White Black, Nishta Mehra, 305.8 MEH Dying of Whiteness, Jonathan Metzl, 362.1089 MET * So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo, 305.8 OLU *ª Finding Latinx, Paola Ramos, 305.8 RAM Just Us: an American Conversation, Claudia Rankine, 305.896 RAN Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad, 305.809 SAA *ª My Vanishing Country, Bakari Sellers, 328.73 SEL *ª No Human Is Illegal, J.J. Mulligan Sepulveda, 325.73 SEP Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream, Mychal Denzel Smith, 973.933 SMI A More Beautiful and Terrible History, Jeanne Theoharis, 323.1196073 THE The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, David Treuer, 970.004 TRE *ª Caste, Isabel Wilkerson, 305.5 WIL *ª You may also have interest in the lists Policing, Justice, and Prisons and Fiction on Race in the United States.
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