Hear book recommendations (listed below) and learn about the many offerings on tap at the San Francisco Public Library this summer from Michelle Jeffers, Chief of Community Programs and Partnerships at SFPL.
And, we'll delve into the issue of gun violence in the Bay Area with Griffin Dix, gun safety activist and author of Who Killed Kenzo?: The Loss of a Son and the Ongoing Battle for Gun Safety, and Reygan Cunningham, co-director of California Partnership for Safe Communities.
Finally, Aimee Good and Isabella Celedon from Environmental Traveling Companions will tell us about pioneering accessible outdoor adventure for people with a variety of abilities and backgrounds.
Book recommendations:
Young Children: Yenebi’s Drive to School by Sendy Santamaria
Middle Readers: When the Beat was Born by Dj Kool Herc
High Schooler / Young Adult: The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee by Ellen Oh and Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater
Beach Read: Ilium by Lea Carpenter and Multo by Cindy Fazzi
Nonfiction: The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson and Burn Book by Kara Swisher
Poplular at the Library: James by Percival Everett; All Fours by Miranda July and Table for Two by Amor Towles
Local Interest: The Last Fire Season by Manjula Martin
Producers: Chris Nooney and Heather Hughes
Hosts: Ethan Elkind and Fred Pitts