Annual Fundraising Event

2026 Book Fair: Saturday, September 26 at Annapolis Mall

Save the date and the books for our sixth-annual fundraiser BOOK FAIR at Annapolis Mall.

We are accepting gently used books at convenient locations around the county until August 31. No textbooks, reference books, or magazines, please. Email AACLC.bookfair@gmail.com to arrange for book drop-off.

In addition, in August, these local public libraries are collecting books inside each branch in specially labeled donation boxes for us:

*Broadneck

*Busch Annapolis

*Eastport-Annapolis Neck

*Crofton

*Odenton

*Severna Park

Thank you, AACPL, for your partnership!

A very successful BOOK DONATION Drive-up & Drop-off event happened on Saturday, July 25 at Eastport United Methodist Church. Thank you, book donors and Eastport UMC!

We’re still seeking sponsors. Please email Jane at director@aaclc.org for more information.

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Thank you for supporting our book fair and adult tutoring programs.

Location Sponsor

Playwright Sponsor

Poet Sponsors

Partners

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: DISCOVERIES BRANCH

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, ANNAPOLIS

EASTPORT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF ANNAPOLIS
BOOKS FOR INTERNATIONAL GOODWILLPIP MOYER RECREATION CENTER

In-Kind Donors

2025 Book Fair: Our Biggest Ever

Our fifth-annual fundraiser BOOK FAIR at Annapolis Mall was a tremendous community success, with the highest turnout and support we’ve ever seen. The mall kindly donates its Community Room and Crate & Barrel Court space for this fantastic event. Discoveries: The Library at the Mall partners with the Literacy Council to provide event support and coordinating activities.

We thank all our donors, supporters, volunteers, shoppers, partners, local media promoters, and sponsors! More than 60 volunteers made the event possible, and at least 75 households, neighborhoods, and other groups donated gently used fiction and nonfiction. We sold thousands of books, raising much-needed funds for our free adult tutoring programs.

Thank you, Broadneck High School English Honor Society and National Honor Society student volunteers, for helping us haul over 280 boxes of donated books to the mall for the book fair!

Thank you, J. Lynwood Holmes, local author and owner of Old Fox Books for a delightful reading of the 2025 children’s book, Copernicus.

After the event, we donated the remaining books. They were delivered to Books for International Goodwill (BIG) in Annapolis.

A Fabulous 2024 Book Fair — Thank You!

Thank you for Supporting Local Adult Literacy at Book Fair 2023!