Library received grant from Brooklyn\u2019s Books Unbanned<\/p>\n
Published 1:30 am Wednesday, October 14, 2026<\/p>\n
Submitted by the Orcas Island Public Library.<\/p>\n
The Orcas Island Library was fortunate to receive a grant from Brooklyn\u2019s Books Unbanned group this spring, and we\u2019ve been thrilled to put it to work with our local teens.<\/p>\n
With the grant, we\u2019ve now run two teen cohorts exploring censorship, challenged books and the role young people can play in the conversation. Our first cohort of three teens planned three of our monthly Teen Book Boxes, each featuring a challenged title: Ellen Hopkins\u2019 \u201cTricks and Crank\u201d and Dav Pilkey\u2019s \u201cCaptain Underpants.\u201d Teens can sign up to receive our monthly Book Box at orcaslibrary.org\/teen-reads<\/a>.<\/p>\n Our second cohort, made up of five teens, has created a display for Banned Books Week, which will be on view at the library Oct. 4-10. We hope you\u2019ll stop by and take a look at what they\u2019ve put together!<\/p>\n We are wildly proud of the teens we\u2019ve gotten to know through these opportunities. They\u2019ve shared thoughtful and valuable insights into censorship and the issues facing today\u2019s teenagers, and they\u2019ve contributed meaningfully to a much larger national conversation. Their ideas have been shared with Books Unbanned alongside contributions from teens across the country \u2014 from New York and California to Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n We\u2019re grateful for the opportunity to give our local teens a space to be heard, and we hope you\u2019ll stop by the library and see what they\u2019ve created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Library received grant from Brooklyn\u2019s Books Unbanned Published 1:30 am Wednesday, October 14, 2026 Submitted by the Orcas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-373338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}