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Rochester Reads News

Thank you for participating in Rochester Reads 2012. Check back with us late in 2012 for the announcement of next year's Rochester Reads selection!

Main Selections

Noted author Tony Horwitz has two best-selling books discussing different aspects of the War: Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War and Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War.



Junior Selection

Our Junior title, The River Between Us by Richard Peck, is a historical novel about how 15-year-old Tilly Pruitt, living during the first year of the Civil War


Children's Selection

Our Children's Title this year is B is for Battle Cry: A Civil War Alphabet written by Pat Bauer and illustrated by David Geister.