This list is the third in a series that highlights titles by people of color from our print and online collections. These choices are some favorites in middle grade fiction.
Category: Fiction
Comics Through the Decades
Learn about the history of comics from the 60s to the present as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Ascension Parish Library! You can check out these titles at one of our four branches or from one of our online platforms. Go to myapl.org to find them.
Read, Watch, and Listen to Your Favorite Decade
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Ascension Parish Library we collected books, movies, and music from each decade that will transport you back in time. If you want to feel far out in the 1960s, think a book from the 2010s is bae, or want to explore any decade in between, this list has you covered.
Voices of Color: Young Adult Fiction
The second in a series of lists highlighting titles by people of color, these choices from our young adult collections will appeal to adults as well as teens.
Voices of Color: Books for Adults
This list is the first in a series that highlights titles by people of color from our print and online collections. These choices are some favorites in adult fiction.
Books to Keep You Up at Night
Have your own personal horror-fest with these blood-chilling novels.
Listen Up: Children’s Picture Books
Check out the audiobook versions of these children's picture books. Playaways are devices that can be checked out from the library and show pictures along with the narration. hoopla read-alongs are streaming audiobooks that show the pictures along with the narration. Hoopla audiobooks are only narration.
For the Love of Books
These stories take you into unusual libraries and bookstores. The list includes a mysterious time-defying library, a mobile bookshop, a library-turned-escape room, a historical Pack Horse Library, and more.
Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?
That song, first heard in the movie New Orleans, was sung by Billie Holiday and performed by Louis Armstrong. It captures the feelings of the people who are enchanted by the unique spirit of the Crescent City. Explore the city in the books and music available at the library.
“What’s your name, man? Alexander Hamilton”
Addicted to Hamilton: The Musical? Explore a little further with these books and films.
Shelf Analysis 