The Pratt has a diverse group of new titles for young adults and graphic novel enthusiasts. Improve your self esteem and delve into a new tale of Black Panther with these hot picks.
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From an autobiography from a star of one of the hottest TV shows to the latest Spanish language titles– the Pratt has books for everyone this spring.
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This year, the Pratt is partnering with Light City Baltimore to spread the joy of fairy tales across the city.
A month of enchanted events kicks off with the Fairy Tale Extravaganza, where the Maryland Historical Society will be transformed into an enchanted forest.
Saturday, April 7, 10am-3pm
Maryland Historical Society
201 W. Monument St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
As part of Light City, this year’s Extravaganza will include an illuminated tree house. Families can take pictures on the throne surrounded by fairy lights. Storytelling with TAHIRA begins at noon, followed by a Fairy Tale Ball with a live string quartet and dancing. Crafts, magic, face painting and other fairy tale fun will entertain crowds throughout the day.
The magical month continues throughout April with Fairy Tale Balls and events at branches across the Pratt Kingdom. “Fairy tales are an introduction to reading for many children,” says Pratt Library President & CEO Heidi Daniel. “We want to help spark their imagination by bringing those books to life and hopefully inspire a lifelong love of learning.”
The Enoch Pratt Free Library’s Fairy Tale Festival is sponsored by Transamerica.
On Monday March 6, Cliff Weaver, an instructor with Code in the Schools, came to the Roland Park Branch to teach seven teens how to build a computer game from scratch with code. In putting together the code to run the game, participants learned vocabulary, concepts, and skills that are useful for any computer programmer.
This class was great for teens who had never coded before. The task itself was simple, and Mr. Weaver was a good instructor. He asked questions like “who can tell me the story of this code?” that made the technical task easy to understand. By the end 
of the class, even the beginners had successfully created a video game.
The class also worked well for the teens with a lot of coding experience. At first they didn’t think the project would be very challenging or interesting, but as the class wore on, those teens were able to engage with the project more deeply by asking questions about the reasoning behind the code that they created. At the end of the class, when the instructor asked everybody what they had learned, one of the more experienced teens admitted that “even when something seems simple, sometimes you still have to fix problems that you can’t see at first.”
This event was part of Teen Tech Week, an annual initiative from the Young Adult Library Services Association, focused on connecting teens with libraries and technology. To read more about this nationwide event, click here for our previous blog post.
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Special Collections manager, Michael Johnson shares materials from the Maryland Women Suffrage Association, including a letter from Susan. B. Anthony.