Vermont Reads

It's been called a memoir in verse, a collection of vignettes about time, place, family and race. The book Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson…

The author of numerous works of fiction and essays, SalmanRushdie won the Booker Prize in 1981 for his novel Midnight's Children, and later that decade,…

This week we’ve been exploring themes from the book Wonder by R.J. Palacio. The novel is this year’s pick for the Vermont Humanities Council’s state-wide…

Some students look back on their middle school years fondly. But for others, it’s a time they’d rather forget.Author R.J. Palacio explores the emotional…

By now you’ve probably at least heard of the book, Wonder by RJ Palacio. It tells the story of Auggie, a boy with facial deformities due to a rare genetic…

Middle school is a time when kids become teenagers, and unfortunately this doesn’t happen at the same time for everyone.The first year of middle school is…

Each year, VPR partners with the Vermont Humanities Council to present Vermont Reads, a state-wide community reading program.This year’s selection is…

Tue 5/7/13 Noon & 7pm Look back through your middle school journals and you'll probably find some poems scrawled in the margins. When did you stop writing…