Free Family Book Swap

Free Family Book Swap Swap up to 10 books per family member and discover endless new reads for free!

Join our San Diego County community for fun, family bonding, and eco-friendly living.

🌎📚 Click ‘Follow’ for updates on our next swap! Free Family Book Swap aims to promote sustainability, community engagement, and a love for reading by offering free monthly book swaps for families. Families can exchange gently used children’s books for other preloved books at no cost.

⚠️ ATTN SAN DIEGO RESIDENTS: Don’t vote for scumbag Mayor Jones.
06/02/2026

⚠️ ATTN SAN DIEGO RESIDENTS: Don’t vote for scumbag Mayor Jones.

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter, and trans histories deserve to be protected, read, shared.These three books and more will be u...
05/29/2026

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter, and trans histories deserve to be protected, read, shared.

These three books and more will be up for grabs at our next free book program because trans history belongs in every community. 📚

🤎 These books are for readers who want to better understand trans history through stories of courage, survival, leadership, and liberation.

👇🏽 Every single title in this stack will be free for our community to take home while supplies last.

1️⃣ Marsha
Written by: Tourmaline


2️⃣ Hispanic Star: Sylvia Rivera
Written by: Claudia Romo Edelman and J. Gia Loving
Illustrated by: Cheyne Gallarde
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3️⃣ Miss Major Speaks
Written by: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek
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🌳 Climate justice is racial justice, and Black writers have been telling the truth for generations about land, food, pol...
05/28/2026

🌳 Climate justice is racial justice, and Black writers have been telling the truth for generations about land, food, pollution, and community care.

These books will be up for grabs at our next free book program because climate justice reading should be easier for our community to access. ♻️

🤎 These are for curious readers who want to name the crisis, understand the roots, and turn understanding into action.

👇🏽 Every single title in this stack will be free for our community to take home while supplies last.

1️⃣ A Terrible Thing to Waste
Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
By: Harriet A. Washington

2️⃣ All We Can Save
By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
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3️⃣ Black Earth Wisdom
Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists
By: Leah Penniman
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4️⃣ It’s Not That Radical
Climate Action to Transform Our World
By: Mikaela Loach


5️⃣ Parable of the Sower
By: Octavia E. Butler


6️⃣ Rooted in the Earth
Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
By: Dianne D. Glave


7️⃣ Soil
The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
By: Camille T Dungy


8️⃣ The Intersectional Environmentalist
How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
By: Leah Thomas


9️⃣ Unearthed
On Race and Roots and How the Soil Taught Me I Belong
By: Claire Ratinon


For the neurodivergent, overstimulated, and hyper-aware parents who are overwhelmed because the world simply wasn’t desi...
05/23/2026

For the neurodivergent, overstimulated, and hyper-aware parents who are overwhelmed because the world simply wasn’t designed for neurodivergent people.

These books are tools for understanding the invisible work that shows up when parenting while neurodivergent like sensory overload, preventative energy awareness, the nervous system, maintaining boundaries, and burnout prevention.

Not all of these books were written specifically for parents, but they can still support the neurodivergent person behind the parenting.

Save this if you are parenting through burnout, sensory overload, or constant hyper-awareness. These books are also helpful for learning more about a loved one that could be neurodivergent.

And if you are too busy to read as a parent, you can always try finding these as audiobooks from your local library, so you can be handsfree while juggling it all. BUSY PARENT TIP: Turn up the narration speed if needed!

Divergent Mind
Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You
By: Jenara Nerenberg


How to ADHD: An Insider’s Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)
By: Jessica McCabe


The Highly Sensitive Parent
Be Brilliant in Your Role, Even When the World Overwhelms You
By: Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.

Parenting When You’re Autistic
By: Pooky Knightsmith

We stand with the Muslim community of San Diego. Check out our latest book haul recommended by Karama San Diego. is an ...
05/23/2026

We stand with the Muslim community of San Diego.

Check out our latest book haul recommended by Karama San Diego. is an independent, non-partisan organization dedicated to helping people understand the issues facing the Arab and Islamic world, and of the Palestinian issue in particular. 🇵🇸

Here’s the full reading list. All these books will be available at our next book program.👇🏽

1️⃣ They Called Me a Lioness
A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom
By: Ahed Tamimi & Dena Takruri 


2️⃣ Against the Loveless World
A Novel
By: Susan Abulhawa


3️⃣ Mornings in Jenin
A Novel
By: Susan Abulhawa


4️⃣ Out of Place
A Memoir
By: Edward W. Said

5️⃣ Orientalism
By: Edward W. Said

6️⃣ BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
By: Omar Barghouti

7️⃣ The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
By: Rashid Khalidi 

8️⃣ The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
By: John J. Mearsheimer & Stephen M. Walt 

9️⃣ Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
Sumaya Awad & brian bean

140 Muslim children should never be targeted by hate on anyone’s livestream. We are devastated for the three heroic men ...
05/22/2026

140 Muslim children should never be targeted by hate on anyone’s livestream. We are devastated for the three heroic men who lost their lives defending the mosque/school, and for the children and parents who are traumatized from this terrorist attack.

Please consider donating to the impacted individuals and families.

ICSD Victim & Family Support Fund: BIT.LY/SUPPORTICSD

We’re choosing people over platforms ✌🏽
01/10/2026

We’re choosing people over platforms ✌🏽

🪁🚂 Join us for our first toy this Saturday, November 29 at La Jolla Library!Here’s what you’ll find throughout the day:
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11/27/2025

🪁🚂 Join us for our first toy this Saturday, November 29 at La Jolla Library!

Here’s what you’ll find throughout the day:
👉🏽 A storytime that centers Palestinian voices and creators 
👉🏽 Free swaps for toys, kids’ clothing, and books (all ages, languages, and genres)
👉🏽 Craft tables with papercrafts, stickers, stamps, and collage-making
👉🏽 A pin-making station to design and decorate. Suitable for ages 9+
👉🏽 Various coloring page stations for families to enjoy together
👉🏽 Educational zines to read and take home

🗣️ Please review the toy swap guidelines before you come. When families bring care to the process, it helps our volunteers keep tables filled and welcoming for everyone. Please don’t slow down the process.

📍La Jolla Library
7555 Draper Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037

🕰️ Schedule
Swap hours run from 11 am - 1 pm
Storytime starts at 12 pm

📢 We highly recommend arriving early for parking!

🅿️ Unlimited time
Library parking lot. Limited spaces
🅿️ 3-hour limit
Parking around the corner on Silver Street
🅿️ 2-hour limit
Street parking in front of the library on Draper Avenue

See you there.

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7555 Draper Ave
San Diego, CA
92037

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