Danbury Library has been selected as one of 35 libraries nationwide to take part in the Great Stories Club. The reading and discussion program for underserved teens means library staff will travel to a workshop in Chicago next month.
As part of the Great Stories Club series on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation, staff from Danbury Library will work with Danbury Youth Services in recruiting teens to read and discuss stories that explore questions of race, equity, identity, history, institutional change and social justice. The competitive grant is offered by the American Library Association, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
The books — curated for the theme "Growing Up Brave on the Margins: Courage and Coming of Age" — were selected to inspire young people to consider "big questions" about the world around them and their place in it. Danbury Library will receive a $1,200 programming grant and 11 copies of each of the selected books, which will be gifted to the book club participants at the end of the program.
