Norfolk Public Library receives Great Stories Club grant from the American Library Association

NORFOLK - Norfolk Public Library has been selected as one of 35 libraries nationwide to take part in the Great Stories Club, a reading and discussion program for teenagers.

The grant is offered by the American Library Association with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This is the second year that the Norfolk Public Library has been awarded this grant.

As part of the Great Stories Club series on Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation, staff from Norfolk Public Library will work with teens at The Zone Afterschool Program to read and discuss stories that explore questions of race, social justice and history.

Norfolk Public Library will receive more than $1,000 in funding and books, which will be gifted at the end of the program.

Gatherings of the Great Stories Club began in September.