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General Recommendations
Youth Poetry Leads the Way
By:
SFPL_Family
Created on:
Feb 18, 2021
11 items
Whether you're celebrating National Poetry Month in April, or Amanda Gorman Appreciation Month any time at all, get inspired by...
General Recommendations
Boundaries, Consent, and Respect: Books for Teens
By:
SFPL_Family
Created on:
Jan 15, 2021
17 items
Up-to-date, insightful, empowering books for teen readers. All available for pickup through SFPL to Go.
1 like
General Recommendations
What librarian Elizabeth is reading 2021
Created on:
Jan 05, 2021
38 items
SFPL Main Children's Center Librarian Elizabeth LOVES telling you what she's read in kids fiction, both the good, bad, and not ...
1 like
General Recommendations
100 Years of Women's Right to Vote in the US
By:
SFPL_danielay
Created on:
Jul 29, 2020
27 items
This year marks the centennial of women's suffrage in the United States. The Nineteenth Amendment passed in 1920 gave women the...
General Recommendations
Favorite Beginning Reader Series
By:
SFPL_Kids
Created on:
Jul 23, 2020
18 items
How do you get to reading success? Repetition, repetition, repetition! These SFPL children's book series provide lots of repeti...
1 like
K-12 Study Guide
Beginning to Read
By:
SFPL_Kids
Created on:
Jul 20, 2020
11 items
You've sung the ABCs countless times. You've pointed out letters while you walked around the neighborhood. You've practiced w...
1 like
General Recommendations
What librarian Elizabeth is reading 2020
Created on:
Mar 31, 2020
70 items
SFPL Main Children's Center Librarian Elizabeth LOVES telling you what she's read in kids fiction, both the good, bad, and not ...
3 likes
General Recommendations
2019 SFUSD Recommended Summer Reading, Grades PreK-2
By:
SFPL_Family
Created on:
May 29, 2019
22 items
Snails, hens, and bears. Boats, bikes, and coral reefs. Markets, communities, and alternate universes. Oh, my, there are so ...
4 likes
General Recommendations
Previous Selections 2018: On the Same Page
By:
SFPL_StaffPicks
Created on:
Mar 20, 2018
5 items
Every other month SFPL chooses a book--with the help of your suggestions--to encourage San Franciscans to read and discuss the...
General Recommendations
2017 Staff Picks Best Teen Books
Created on:
Dec 28, 2017
13 items
SFPL staff picked our favorite teen books published in 2017. Don't miss these amazing reads!
2 likes
Topic Guide
Works of Guest Speakers of the Effie Lee Morris Lecture Series
Created on:
Dec 04, 2017
25 items
An SFPL Main Children's Center list of of the works of top authors and illustrators that have been Guest Speakers at the annual...
General Recommendations
Archived Staff Recommendations
Created on:
Nov 06, 2017
95 items
SFPL's West Portal Staff recommendations.
General Recommendations
Teotihuacan for young readers
By:
SFPL_Family
Created on:
Oct 26, 2017
21 items
Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire at the de Young Museum showcases the mysteriously beautiful ruins of an ancient Mesoam...
General Recommendations
Kumon Level CII
By:
SFPL_Family
Created on:
Apr 06, 2017
13 items
Calling all Kumon kids! SFPL has the books on the Level CII reading list.
General Recommendations
Kumon Level CI
By:
SFPL_Family
Created on:
Apr 06, 2017
13 items
Calling all Kumon kids! SFPL has the books on the Level CI reading list.
General Recommendations
Kumon Level AII
By:
SFPL_Family
Created on:
Mar 31, 2017
15 items
Calling all Kumon kids! SFPL has books on the Level AII reading list.
1 like
General Recommendations
Feminism. It's not a dirty word
By:
SFPL_Teen
Created on:
Mar 01, 2017
19 items
SFPL Teens have chosen these diverse books to share about issues of feminism. Celebrate Women's History Month in March and A Da...
1 like
General Recommendations
Thanksgiving Feasts
Created on:
Sep 10, 2016
32 items
Autumn's harvest and the wizardry of home cooks conjoin for this holiday of thanks. Within this list, you will find a myriad of...
1 like
General Recommendations
Gene Luen Yang in conversation with Raina Telgemeier - Children's Book Week 2016
By:
SFPL_Kids
Created on:
May 10, 2016
21 items
Children's Book Council presented their West Coast keynote event celebrating Children's Book Week with Gene Yang in conversatio...
Topic Guide
Celebrating Children's Literature - African American Heritage
By:
s
SFPL_ELM_Collection
Created on:
Mar 16, 2016
13 items
This is an SFPL list of items that are only available in the Effie Lee Morris Historical Collection - they are older reference ...
General Recommendations
Never Too Young: Books for Babies
By:
SFPL_Kids
Created on:
Dec 31, 2015
18 items
Sing, talk, read, play, and learn every day with baby books from SFPL! It's never too early (or too late!) to begin with books.
2 likes
General Recommendations
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (SFPL Environmental Center)
By:
SFPL_STEGNER
Created on:
Nov 22, 2023
10 items
In November 2023, the Environmental Center hosted scholar Brook Thompson. She discussed her top 10 books on Traditional Ecologi...
3 likes
General Recommendations
SFPL Women of World War II
By:
SFPL_CristinaM
Created on:
Feb 04, 2023
16 items
A keyhole view into the lives of women from a broad international spectrum during one of the most significant periods of the tw...
General Recommendations
Transgender, Nonbinary and Gender-Nonconforming Teens - An SFPL LGBTQIA Resource Guide
Created on:
Dec 01, 2022
11 items
A selection of books for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming teenagers, all written by transgender and nonbinary a...
3 likes
General Recommendations
SFPL Parkside Boys' Bookgroup Suggested Titles
By:
SFPL_ParksideLib
Created on:
Feb 26, 2022
28 items
Books we've read and discussed