Registration opens:
September 18th, 2025

MCPL - JCA Interages Intergenerational Book Club - Virtual

Kin : Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford

Students in grades 6, 7, and 8 are invited to a 4 week virtual intergenerational book group held in association with the JCA Heyman Interages Center. SSL hours will be earned if requirements are met.

Create connections with older adults from the Jewish Council for Aging's Heyman Interages Center through a multiweek discussion of Kin : Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford. Participants can earn 8 SSL hours if they attend all 4 sessions, participate in the discussion, and present and submit a short Reflection piece. Participants will use the book to foster discussion, develop book evaluation skills, and comfort speaking with non-family member adults.

Kin : Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford, with art by Jeffery Weatherford, is the ONE MARYLAND, ONE BOOK 2025 title. A novel-in-verse, it celebrates generations of Black excellence. Poet and children’s author Carole Boston Weatherford and her son, artist Jeffery Boston Weatherford, collaborated on this book that gives voice to their earliest enslaved ancestors back to the founding of Maryland.

From Maryland Humanities, the sponsor of ONE MARYLAND, ONE BOOK: With each poem and its accompanying illustration, Carole and Jeffery tell their family story through each of their kin and the world they lived in: the Chesapeake Bay, the plantation house, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and more. The selection committee was enthralled by how Kin uses art and poetry to illuminate what can’t be said by historical records (when they are available), in a vital story that is about Maryland’s past and its present. 

Registration is required and is limited to 12 participants, who must meet grade level requirements. 

Questions? Contact Judy at White Oak Library at 240-773-9555. 

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People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing should request English-language captioning or sign-language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program they plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

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