Annual Fundraising Event

September 27, 2025, at Annapolis Mall, 10 am – 4 pm

Our fifth-annual fundraiser BOOK FAIR will be on Saturday, September 27, at Annapolis Mall. The mall kindly donates its Community Room and Crate & Barrel Court space for this fantastic event. Find us inside the mall near the Discoveries branch of the library.

Find Your Next Great Read!

We’ll offer 1000s of reads in all genres. Books will be displayed on long tables and organized into categories. We’ll have browsable carts filled with hundreds of children’s books!

Paperbacks will be $1, hardbacks $2, or stuff a special edition Literacy Council reusable tote bag with all the books you can carry for $25.

Children’s Book Reading @ the Book Fair

Join us at noon inside Discoveries Library for a reading with J. Lynwood Holmes, local author and owner of Old Fox Books. She will read her 2025 children’s book, Copernicus, about a bookstore mouse that sometimes hitches a ride with customers to places near and far. See more about Copernicus on Old Fox’s Instagram. The book is beautifully illustrated by Julietta Paquini.

(Copernicus illustration by Julietta Paquini.)

Stick around in the afternoon for the Discoveries Local Author Fair. From 2 to 4 pm, stop by the library to meet local authors and learn about their latest titles.

Raffle Baskets

Don’t miss our amazing raffle baskets! Tickets will be available next to our checkout station, where you can also browse the baskets. Ticket buyers DON’T have to be present to purchase tickets or win! Email us if you’d like to purchase tickets now. Pre-event ticket sales end at noon on Friday, September 26.

RAFFLE TICKETS

$2/ticket or six tickets for $10

Enter to win any of the four baskets featured below.

1. Anne Arundel Treats

-$60 in Great Frogs Winery tasting gift certificates (for 2)

-$100 Timber Pizza gift card

-$75 in free Bundlet cakes for a year

-$25 Always Ice Cream gift card

-$20 Crooked Crab Brewing Co. gift card

-Crooked Crab merch.

-2 Anthropologie stemless wine glasses

value: $325

2. Annapolis Eats

-$50 Graul’s Market gift card

-$25 Always Ice Cream gift card

-$25 Squisito gift card

-$25 Rise Up Coffee Roasters gift card

-$20 Black Market Bakers gift card

-Rise Up Coffee merch. + Annapolis totebag

-Handcrafted basket

value: $260

3. Bay Ridge Wine & Spirits

A wine tour of sunny Southern Europe

Beautiful wines from:

Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, & Greece

5 bottles total | must be 21 to enter & win

value: $110

4. Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland Dining

$300 The Prime Rib

restaurant gift certificate

(gift certificate restrictions apply)

value: $300

Pre-event ticket sales end at noon on Friday, September 26.

See updates and previews on AACLC’s social channels.

Instagram @aacoliteracy | Facebook aaclc | X @aaclc

We are no longer accepting books for this year’s book fair. Please check back next May, when book fair 2026 plans will be announced. Consider delivering books to Books for International Goodwill in Annapolis if you’d like to donate them now.

Location Sponsor

Media Sponsor

Poet Sponsor

Reader Sponsor

Partners

DELEGATE DANA JONES 2025 CHILDREN’S BOOK DRIVE

DISCOVERIES: THE LIBRARY AT THE MALL

In-Kind Donors

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A Fabulous 2024 Book Fair — Thank You!

Our fourth-annual book fair was a huge success!

More than 50 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.

All of us enjoyed spending time with tutors, volunteers, and students. Holding the event at the mall attracted more support than ever, and we were pleased to promote our mission and services in such a central, well-trafficked location and through local media.

In 2024, we partnered with Discoveries: The Library at the Mall and children’s author Julia Inserro to offer a children’s reading and activity in the afternoon. Many thanks to Julia and Discoveries.

After the event, we donated the remaining books. They were delivered to Books for International Goodwill in Annapolis (BIG), children and families through the Anne Arundel County NAACP, and local Little Free Libraries.

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

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