As a girl, Betty had been “too ashamed to go to the library with an overdue book,” she recalled. So, “Ol’ Paul” ended up staying with her as she grew up, establishing a career in ...

Library honors girl who loved books. ... When she was 9, she led a book drive with Girl Scouts and classmates that collected 3,000 books for the children's ward at University Hospital.

The two books that will remain in the library’s teen section include the 2006 novel “Sold,” which is about a girl sold into sexual slavery; and the 2020 book “Grown,” about sexual ...

A nonprofit called the Human Library allows readers to sign out “human books” – people from stigmatized groups – for conversations that shatter stereotypes and foster compassion.

On Thursdays, they go to the South Side Library. This week, she picked out books by Mercer Mayer, a book about singer Selena and another about the Little Mermaid, her favorite Disney princess.