Celebrating the selection of True Biz by Sara Novic for the 2024 One Book, One Philadelphia program.

Celebrating the selection of True Biz by Sara Nović for the 2024 One Book, One Philadelphia program. WHEREAS, Since its founding in 1891, the Free Library of Philadelphia has worked to build an enlightened community devoted to lifelong learning; and WHEREAS, Now, on its 22nd annual season, the Free Library of Philadelphia’s One Book, One Philadelphia is a signature project of the Free Library of Philadelphia. It promotes literacy, library usage, and civic dialogue by encouraging the entire greater Philadelphia area to come together through the sharing of ideas and the joy of reading; and WHEREAS, True Biz is a story of communication across radically different experiences. It involves three characters at the River Valley School for the Deaf. Charlie is a new transfer student. Austin is the school’s golden boy. February is the school's Headmistress and a child of deaf adults. Together, they try to find their footing during a new school year, navigating major life changes and an impending threat to their school that may change them forever; and WHEREAS, Sara Nović is a writer, activist, and translator based in Philadelphia. Her New York Times bestselling book Girl at War won the American Library Association’s Alex Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University, where she studied fiction and literary translation; and WHEREAS, The official One Book, One Philadelphia public reading period lasts from A…