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We're doing a read-a-thon for Black History Month with prizes to win! Each area (adults, teen, children) have their own tic-tac-toe sheet to complete, so pick one up next time you stop in!

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When you stop in, help us in completing our puzzle!

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Our teen and children’s areas got a little bit of a makeover recently.

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Our bulletin board has been graced with a lot of cool sci-fi and fantasy. Did you know that J.R.R. Tolkien was born on January 3rd in 1892?

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Bravo!: Poems About Amazing Hispanics  (2017)

Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot―the Latinos featured in this collection, Bravo!, come from many different countries and from many different backgrounds. Celebrate their accomplishments and their contributions to a collective history and a community that continues to evolve and thrive today!

Biographical poems include: Aida de Acosta, Arnold Rojas, Baruj Benacerraf, César Chávez, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, Félix Varela, George Meléndez, José Martí, Juan de Miralles, Juana Briones, Julia de Burgos, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Paulina Pedroso, Pura Belpré, Roberto Clemente, Tito Puente, Ynes Mexia, Tomás Rivera

by Margarita Engle  (Author), Rafael Lopez (Illustrator)

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Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American winner of the first Newbery Honor ever awarded to a Latino. Her award winning young adult novels in verse include The Surrender Tree, The Poet Slave of Cuba, and The Lightning Dreamer, winner of the PEN USA Award.Engle’s most recent books are Orangutanka, Drum Dream Girl, The Sky Painter, and Enchanted Air. All of these books are to be released in 2015. For news and updates, visit http://margaritaengle.com/She lives in central California, where she enjoys helping her husband with his volunteer work for wilderness search and rescue dog training programs.

Rafael López is an mexican recognized illustrator and artist A children’s book illustrator, he has received two Pura Belpré Award medals from the American Library Association for Drum Dream Girl and Book Fiesta! He was chosen by the Library of Congress to create the National Book Festival Poster and has been a featured book festival speaker at this event. The illustrations created by López bring diverse characters to children’s books and he works to produce and promote books that reflect and honor the lives of all young people. His illustrations for Bravo! Poems about Amazing Hispanics was honored with the Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrators New York Original Art Exhibition. The book Maybe Something Beautiful based on his own work reclaiming neighborhoods with community murals secured the Tomás Rivera Book Award. Additional children’s books have received three Pura Belpré honors and two Américas Book Awards for illustration. The Fall 2018 release of The Day You Begin written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by López made the New York Times Bestseller List as #1 Children’s Picture Book.

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23 Books You Might’ve Missed in 2019

[via Read It Forward]

We’ve rounded up some of the best 2019 books you might’ve missed - add them to your ever-growing TBR pile. Trust us, they’re worth it.

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray    

The Ghosts of Eden Park by Karen Abbott 

The Other Americans by Laila Lalami 

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson 

Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer  

The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell 

The Travelers by Regina Porter

The River by Peter Heller 

Meg and Jo by Virginia Kantra   

The Farm by Joanne Ramos

Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin  

Bunny by Mona Awad 

On Swift Horses by Shannon Pufahl  

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Family of Origin by CJ Hauser        

The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri     

D-Day Girls by Sarah Rose   

We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin       

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Click through to see more titles.

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We will be closed on January 1st for New Year's Day! We look forward to seeing you in the new year!

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We'll be closing early tomorrow at 5PM for New Year's Eve!

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We'll be closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day for the holiday!

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Celebrate the Holidays by enjoying treats and games with our community and the Odom Branch Library staff!

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Cheer on your friends and enjoy time spent with others while taking turns playing video games and board games with other students. Games are rated T or below.

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Using materials found or kept, we will make decorations, cards, or gifts for the holidays. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Join us to make recycled holiday decorations and crafts using found or kept materials!

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The Akron Art Museum is launching a new program at Odom Branch Library to give people a chance to get more intimate with art. The Akron Art Museum Art Library will allow Summit County residents with a library card to “check out” original artworks including paintings, drawings, prints, and photos by local, regional, and international artists! Patrons can enjoy the work for up to four weeks, with up to five renewals if no one else has reserved the work. To further engage people, the museum will be hosting programs devoted to collecting art and how to display and care for it.

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Our launch party for our collection of the @AkronArtMuseum's Art Library is this coming Monday the 9th, so we thought we'd share some sneak peeks at some of the black and white art currently up in our community room!

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Our launch party for our collection of the @akronartmuseum  Art Library is this coming Monday the 9th, so we thought we'd share some sneak peeks at some of the black and white art currently up in our community room! The Akron Art Museum is launching a new program at Odom Branch Library to give people a chance to get more intimate with art. The Akron Art Museum Art Library will allow Summit County residents with a library card to “check out” original artworks including paintings, drawings, prints, and photos by local, regional, and international artists! Patrons can enjoy the work for up to four weeks, with up to five renewals if no one else has reserved the work. To further engage people, the museum will be hosting programs devoted to collecting art and how to display and care for it.

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Join us after school to play games, work on homework, do a craft, read a book, or just hang out with your friends!