03037cam a2200529 4500 2722501985 TxAuBib 20260403120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9798765611838 B0DMKFJMJX Amazon a2d7719a-012f-4f3f-b0a0-6bfdc24e2c93 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11995617 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Ramsey, Calvin Alexander. The Library in the Woods [Libby eBook]. Lerner Publishing Group, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Informational Fiction. Black History Month. moving to new home. African American. North Carolina. learn to read. Picture Book. Jim Crow era. segregation. Illiterate. own voices. Education. Libraries. literacy. Farming. Roxboro. school. Winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award A Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books of the Year After a storm devastates the farm his parents have been renting, Junior moves with his family to Roxboro, North Carolina. The year is 1959, and the nine-year-old boy has to navigate the realities of the segregated South while adjusting to life in town. Instead of farming, his father works at the lumberyard, and his mother takes in laundry from the white people in town. Junior meets new friends who have a TV—and their own books! These new friends offer to take Junior to the library, and he's surprised to discover that in a clearing in the forest, there's a log cabin that houses a library for Black residents. The library in the woods feels magical, giving Junior a sense of possibility and community. The books he checks out also help him uncover a secret he never knew about his father. This fictional account is based on a real-life library author Calvin Alexander Ramsey frequented as a child. Ramsey's heartfelt text, accompanied by illustrations from award-winning artist R. Gregory Christie, celebrates family, libraries, and the resourcefulness of the Black community. Juvenile Literature. Historical Fiction. Juvenile Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book. Coretta Scott King Book Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-04-03 20:00:02. Christie, R. Gregory. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a2d7719a-012f-4f3f-b0a0-6bfdc24e2c93&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a2d7719a-012f-4f3f-b0a0-6bfdc24e2c93&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)