Seek The Unknown @your library-Teen Read Week & Teen '13

It's Teen Read Week... so join us!


Teen '13
The Richmond Public Library is hosting a group of award-winning and best-selling Virginia authors of books released in 2013. It's an evening of celebration for young readers and all fans of pre-teen and teen fiction. 

Enjoy food, fun, book sales, signings, and giveaways. Click here for a PDF of the flyer: http://abwestrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Teen13flyer.pdf

Meet your favorite authors: Aimee Agresti, Gigi Amateau, Hannah Barnaby, Susann Cokal, National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine, Lana Krumwiede, Meg Medina, Elisa Nader, Erica Orloff, Valerie O. Patterson, Madelyn Rosenberg, Sarah Sullivan, Steve Watkins, A.B. Westrick, and Sylvia Whitman. Free and open to the public.

More information about this event can be found on the Richmond Public Library Event page: Teen '13 Facebook Event Page

There are so many cool stuff going on at the branches for Teen Read Week! 
Spirited History with LeeAnne & Angela
Learn about Richmond-area ghosts and things that go bump in the night with the paranormal investigation team, Spirited History. This program is best for ages 13 and up and will be held at several of our branches.

Wednesday, October 16 @ 6 pm
West End Library, 646-1877
Saturday, October 19 @ 2 pm
East End Library, 646-4474
Wednesday, October 23 @ 6pm
Belmont Library, 646-1139
Monday, October 28 @ 6 pm
North Avenue Library, 646-6675

FOR TEENS! At the Main Library on October 15 @ 4 pm: Make your phone and computer pay for itself… a class just for teens. Teens will learn how apps can help them save on the move.







More events for Teen Read Week can be found on the library's website calendar: RPL's Events Calendar

Girls of Summer 2013 Live Launch Party @ Main

What a great way to start off the Summer Reading program, right?

Our favorite library friends are joining us again for yet another wonderful summer program. This is the 3rd annual Girls of Summer launch party, where Richmond authors Meg Medina and Gigi Amateau join forces to present this empowering program for girls. The Girls of Summer 2013 will feature 18 titles by 18 authors for girls of all ages. 

Last year, the two authors did an interview with each other on our blog. The blog post can be found here: The Girls of Summer-A Conversation Between Authors Meg Medina & Gigi Amateau.


Also available is an interview they had a few weeks back with Bill Lohmann of the Richmond Times-Dispatch: Lohmann: ‘Strong girls’ is the goal of authors’ summer reading list.


We are ecstatic that these two authors decided to have their program at the Main Library again. To refresh your memory about the program, here is a blog post about last year's program: Girls of Summer 2012: One Night, Three Authors and One Amazing Book List.

If you are a mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, or even a friend of a girl, join us Tuesday, June 18th at 7 pm for this program. Spread the word!

More information about Meg Medina and Gigi Amateau can be found at their website: girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com

Girls of Summer 2012: One Night, Three Authors and One Amazing Book List

Gigi Amateau and Meg Medina

If you were not downtown at Library Park on Tuesday, June 19th, you missed a real treat! Oh and ice cream too. Local authors, Gigi Amateau and Meg Medina, presented their second annual Girls of Summer book list. Books about amazing, strong girls for amazing, strong girls! The list is made up of 18 titles for girls of all ages; and includes fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novels. The complete list is posted to their Girls of Summer website.

Each book was introduced at random with a short review. We were even treated to a few readings, which were all done by three wonderful young ladies.

Each Friday, their website will feature and interview with a different author who wrote one of the books on the list. Short reviews of each of the books on the list are also posted.

We were also treated to a conversation with a conversation with Wendy Shang, author of The Great Wall of Lucy Wu.

Wendy used to be a lawyer, and a few years ago she found herself wondering what was the one thing she hadn't done that she still really wanted to do? The answer was write a children's book!

It is hard to grow up and have one foot in two different cultures and no one is every completely comfortable with it. You are always told, to write about what you know, so she did. Which was also the reason why Lucy is twelve.Wendy remembers being twelve better then most other times in her life.

But she also wanted to make Lucy different, so she made Lucy a short, basketball player. (Gigi will tell you that is great basketball in the book!)

Wendy's advice to aspiring writers is this: read! Read a lot, read everything. Write a lot, write a little every day, and learn to edit your own work. 

We are looking forward to next year's event at Library Park!

a crowd of all ages