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            16 Articles Categorized Under Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction

            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction First-Year Reading: Fiction General
            September 7 2021

            Now Available: Updated Educator Guides for Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

            Kabul-born novelist Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, is known for his evocative storytelling deeply rooted in Afghanistan’s history and culture. Like so many of us, he watched Afghanistan fall to the Taliban with profound sadness. In the wake of these events, Penguin Random House has updated the educator’s guides for Hosseini’s

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            Now Available: Updated Educator Guides for Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction First-Year Reading: Fiction General
            September 7 2021
            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction
            July 23 2020

            Megha Majumdar’s debut novel A BURNING is an urgent story of class, fate, corruption, and justice

             A Burning is a novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies—and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of

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            Megha Majumdar’s debut novel A BURNING is an urgent story of class, fate, corruption, and justice

            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction
            July 23 2020
            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction First-Year Reading: Fiction
            June 24 2020

            An Absolutely Remarkable First-Year Reading Guide

            It may not be surprising to hear that Hank Green—brother to John Green and co-creator of Vlogbrothers, Crash Course, and SciShow—thinks about the Internet a lot. It makes plenty of sense, then, for his debut novel to ask some big questions about how we connect online. “Sparkling with mystery, humor and the uncanny, this is

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            An Absolutely Remarkable First-Year Reading Guide

            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction First-Year Reading: Fiction
            June 24 2020
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            January 16 2020

            Under the Feet of Jesus at the University of Oregon

            On the University of Oregon campus, incoming students are reading Under the Feet of Jesus as part of the Common Reading program. Written by Cornell Professor Helena María Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus tells the story of the men, women, and children who labor under dangerous conditions as migrant workers in California’s fields. At the center

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            Under the Feet of Jesus at the University of Oregon

            Community & School Reads Adults Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction First-Year Reading: Fiction General
            January 16 2020
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            August 8 2019

            Read an Excerpt From Brandon Hobson’s Where the Dead Sit Talking

            Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson explores the themes of loneliness and trauma as a young Native American boy named Sequoyah experiences life in the foster care system. This 2018 National Book Award Finalist is about a broken teenager’s search for his identity and the hardships of being displaced. Sequoyah lives his life always keeping his feelings buried, until he is placed with the Troutt family. There he meets Rosemary, a friend and confidant who, like him, is a Native American child living in the foster care system.

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            Read an Excerpt From Brandon Hobson’s Where the Dead Sit Talking

            Community & School Reads Adults Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: Fiction
            August 8 2019
            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction
            February 5 2019

            The Iowa Center for the Book Chooses Land of Permanent Goodbyes as an All Iowa Reads!

            The Iowa Center for the Book Chooses Land of Permanent Goodbyes as the 2019 All Iowa Reads for ages 12-18. The novel, set in Syria, tells the story of a refugee escaping his war-torn country in search of survival. Author Atia Abawi, a journalist and refugee herself, captures the hope that spurs people forward against

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            The Iowa Center for the Book Chooses Land of Permanent Goodbyes as an All Iowa Reads!

            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction
            February 5 2019
            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction
            January 11 2019

            One Book, One Chicago

              Chicago Public Library’s latest selection for its One Book, One Chicago program is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?  by Philip K. Dick. First published in 1968, Dick’s novel introduces readers to Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter commissioned to find rogue androids during the 2021 World War. A prescient rendering of a dark future, Do

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            One Book, One Chicago

            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction
            January 11 2019
            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction General
            September 19 2018

            One Read for Racial Justice with DREAM COUNTRY

            A story across countries, generations, and time, Dream Country follows one single African-and-American family pursuing an elusive dream of freedom from Liberia to America and back. Told in five different sections, Shannon Gibney spins a riveting tale of the nightmarish spiral of death and exile connecting America and Africa, and of how one determined young

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            One Read for Racial Justice with DREAM COUNTRY

            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction General
            September 19 2018
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            August 30 2018

            Small Great Things Takes on Social Justice

            Debuting at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and soon to be a major motion picture, SMALL GREAT THINGS was chosen for the 2017 National Teachers of the Year social justice booklist for high school – adult readers, a resource for educators, parents, community members, and policy makers interested in reaching young people on issues of social justice.

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            Small Great Things Takes on Social Justice

            Community & School Reads Adults Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction
            August 30 2018
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            August 8 2018

            Dystopian America: Common Reads Selections from Orwell to Atwood

            Common Reads presents a list of classic and contemporary dystopian fiction with offerings for all-ages, ideal for use in both first-year and community reads.

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            Dystopian America: Common Reads Selections from Orwell to Atwood

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            August 8 2018
            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction
            June 25 2018

            Tonight Show Summer Reads and Jimmy Fallon Want Your Vote

            Jimmy Fallon announced the launch of the official Tonight Show Summer Reads book club last week, and he’s asking the public to vote for the book they want to read the most. Voting ends at noon EST on Thursday, June 28th, so vote today!

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            Tonight Show Summer Reads and Jimmy Fallon Want Your Vote

            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction
            June 25 2018
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            April 2 2018

            One Book, One New York 2018

              The New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), New York Magazine and Vulture have announced the return of “One Book, One New York,” the exciting city-wide initiative that brings book-loving New Yorkers together to read the same book at the same time.     Throughout the month of April, New Yorkers

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            One Book, One New York 2018

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            April 2 2018
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