Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System

Whether you're a kid, teen, or adult: graphic novels, magazines, and audiobooks ABSOLUTELY count toward your time goals for our summer reading programs! We even have nonfiction graphic novels and graphic novel adaptations of Shakespeare and other literary classics!

During the summer months away from school, it’s crucial that children have access to healthy meals, safe environments, and books and educational opportunities so they can keep learning. Click to learn what resources are available for kids and families this summer.

What's in your To Be Read (TBR) pile? #TellUsTuesday #MCCLS

Every bookworm needs their brain food! Feed your mind by joining our 2021 Adult Summer Timed Reading Challenge. You can read magazines or books to yourself, read to others, or just listen to a book. Books can be regular books with paper pages, digital, audiobooks, or magazines. Read our books or your own. Just join us on Beanstack for the fun! If you prefer, stop in to get a paper tracker. Register at mccls.beanstack.org

We are partnering with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) to present the author Jarvis Givens, and scholars Cornel West and Brandon Terry discussing the history of Black education in the US sparked by Givens’ new book Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching.

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Did you know we have a special summer reading program for teens ages 11-17? There's a reading program with a chance to win one of five $25 Amazon gift cards (the more you read, the more entries you get!) and one painting and craft night in June and July. Check it out here: https://www.mccls.org/summer-reading-for-teens

We will host trailblazing author Amy Tan in conversation with actress Tamlyn Tomita on Thursday, May 6 at 8 PM ET. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Amy Tan rejected her mother’s career expectations and chose to write fiction instead, resulting in her becoming a New York Times best-selling author. In addition to adult fiction, Tan has written two memoirs, two children’s books, numerous magazine articles, a libretto, screenplays, and was the creative consultant for Sagwa: Th...e Chinese Siamese Cat, the Emmy-winning PBS KIDS series. In addition to Tan’s most recent book Where The Past Begins: A Writers Memoir, PBS Books will be discussing her episode of AMERICAN MASTERS, Unintended Memoir. About the Moderator: The conversation will be led by actress and activist Tamlyn Tomita, who is best known for her role in Karate Kid II and The Joy Luck Club, as well as her narration of the PBS series, Asian Americans, produced by the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) and WETA, the flagship PBS station in Washington, D.C.

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