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Summer Reading Challenge

May 11, 2026 No Comments

Summer is just around the corner, and we’re getting ready to dig a little deeper this year. The 2026 Summer Reading Challenge, “Unearth a Story,”

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MPL Eliminates Fines

MPL Eliminates Fines

Effective July 19, 2021 the Minot Public Library will no longer be charging fines on items returned late, with the exception of tools. This decision was made by the Minot Public Library Board with the intention to remove obstacles that may prevent people from using library services available to them. “The Library hasn’t been charging […]

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Digital Resource of the Month

Summer Reading Challenge

Summer is just around the corner, and we’re getting ready to dig a little deeper this year. The 2026 Summer Reading Challenge, “Unearth a Story,” invites readers of all ages to discover hidden worlds, buried histories, and unforgettable adventures. From June 1st through July 30th, we’re challenging our community to read 20 minutes per day for at least 30 days. Each day you read and log it in the Beanstack app helps you win prizes

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Library Spotlight

Reading to babies and toddlers is crucial for their development, fostering early language skills, building a strong foundation for literacy, and strengthening the bond between parent and child. Our 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program helps families stay on track by encouraging daily reading and celebrating milestones along the way. Sign up on the Beanstack App today!

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Juneteenth

Antiracist Baby

"Illustrations and rhyming text present nine steps Antiracist Baby can take to improve equity, such as opening our eyes to all skin colors and celebrating all our differences."
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The Bell Rang

"Every single morning, the overseer of the plantation rings the bell. Daddy gathers wood. Mama cooks. Ben and the other slaves go out to work. Each day is the same. Full of grueling work and sweltering heat. Every day, except one, when the bell rings and Ben is nowhere to be found. Because Ben ran. Yet, despite their fear and sadness, his family remains hopeful that maybe, just maybe, he made it North. That he is free. An ode to hope and a powerful tribute to the courage of those who ran for freedom, The Bell Rang is a stunning reminder that our past can never be forgotten."
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Revolution In Our Time

"In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary socialist movement that drew thousands of members--mostly women--and became the target of one of the most sustained repression efforts ever made by the U.S. government against its own citizens."
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Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman

"Upon arriving at the prestigious Wooddale University, seventeen-year-old Savannah Howard comes face-to-face with microaggressions and outright racism--but if she stands up for justice, will she endanger her future? Savannah Howard sacrificed her high school social life to make sure she got into a top college. When she is accepted to the ivy-covered walls of Wooddale University on a full ride, how can she say no? But she discovers Wooddale is far from the perfectly manicured community it sells on its brochures. Savannah comes face-to-face with microagressions stemming from racism and elitism."
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I Did a New Thing : 30 Days to Living Free

"Years ago, Tabitha Brown started a 30-day personal challenge that she called "I Did a New Thing!" The challenge was simple. Every day she would do something she'd never done before. In this book, Tab shares her own stories and those of others, alongside gentle guidance and encouragement to create these incredible changes for yourself and see what good can come from them."
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On Juneteenth

"Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us. From the earliest presence of black people in Texas-in the 1500s, well before enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown-to the day in Galveston on June 19, 1865, when General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery, Gordon-Reed's insightful and inspiring essays present the saga of a "frontier" peopled by Native Americans, Anglos, Tejanos, and Blacks that became a slaveholder's republic."
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