Celebrating Black History Month

 Although our Library is always committed to diversity and to expanding our collection to include books from every culture, this month we want to focus on books that celebrate and share Black history and culture.

Here's our first selection:

Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper

Draper is an awesome author and we have a lot of her books in the Library. 

Stella by Starlight was published in 2015 and tells the story of Stella Mills who lives in the segregated South. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she can’t. Some folks are right pleasant. Others are a lot less so. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn’t bothered them for years. But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something they’re never supposed to see, something that is the first flicker of change to come, unwelcome change by any stretch of the imagination. As Stella’s community—her world—is upended, she decides to fight fire with fire. And she learns that ashes don’t necessarily signify an end. (Amazon review)

Draper was inspired to write this book after coming across the diary of her grandmother who, although she had been forced to leave school after fifth grade, insisted on writing each night by the light of the moon.