2022 Great Read for Youth
The Arkansas Center for the Book at the Arkansas State Library is pleased to announce the 2022 Great Read for Youth selection: Beast of Prey (2021) by Ayana Gray.
In the first novel of the “Beasts of Prey” series, fate binds a beast keeper and a warrior-in-training together as they unravel mysteries that threaten their home.
Ayana Gray is a “New York Times” bestselling young adult fantasy author and a lover all things monsters, mythos, and magic. Originally from Atlanta, she now lives in Little Rock. Watch Ayana talk about her work in the Great Reads from Great Places: Central II (Books for Teens).
Great Reads from Great Places: Central II (Books for Teens)
Running time: 34 minutes 38 seconds.
Introduction by Michael Pearce, director of the Alabama Center for the Book, and featuring Charles Waters and Irene Latham, author of “African Town” (chosen by Alabama Center for the Book); Ayana Gray, author of “Beasts of Prey” (chosen by Arkansas Center for the Book); Andrea Davis Pinkney, author of “Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Tell It” (chosen by Mississippi Center for the Book); and Julia Watts, author of “Needlework” (chosen by Tennessee Center for the Book). The featured authors discuss their books, the states that selected them, and how “Books Bring Us Together.”
2022 Great Read for Adults
The Arkansas Center for the Book at the Arkansas State Library is pleased to announce the 2022 Great Read for Adults selection: Remote Access: Small Public Libraries in Arkansas (2021) by Don House and Sabine Schmidt.
With their cameras and notebooks in hand, photographers Sabine Schmidt and Don House embarked on an ambitious project to document the libraries committed to serving Arkansas’s smallest communities. Remote Access is the culmination of this fascinating three-year effort, which took the artists to every region of their home state.
