About Rochester Reads
Now in its tenth year, Rochester Reads
has sought to encourage community discussion, family reading, literacy, understanding,
and cross-community interaction by promoting the reading of a single book in the Rochester, Minnesota area. In addition to the main Rochester Reads selection, books similar in theme to the main book are chose for both Young Adult and Child audiences.
Everyone
is invited to participate by reading the books this winter and then attending Rochester Reads events and discussions in April
2012.
Previous Rochester Reads Selections
2011
Main Selection: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Junior Selection: The Dust Bowl : An Interactive History Adventure by Allison Lassieur
Children's Selection: Leah's Pony by Elizabeth Friedrich and Michael Garland
2010
Main Selection: The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
Junior Selection: Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
Children's Selection: Muktar and the Camels by Janet Graber
2009
Main Selection: Candy Freak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
by Steve Almond
Junior Selection: The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull
Children's Selection: Little Pea by by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Jen Corace
2008
Main Selection: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Junior Selection: The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
Children's Selection: Beatrice's Goat by Page McBrier illustrated by Lori Lohstoeter
2007
Main Selection: Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Junior Selection: Frindle by Andrew Clements
There was no Children's Selection in 2007
2006
Main Selection: No Horizon is So Far by Liv Arnesen & Ann Bancroft
Junior Selection: Jason's Gold by Will Hobbs
Children's Selection: Something to Tell The Grandcows by Eileen Spinelli & Illustrated by Bill Slavin
2005
Main Selection: The Giver by Lois Lowry
Junior Selection: Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix
Children's Selection: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox & Illustrated by Julie Vivas
2004
Main Selection: Once Upon a Town by Bob Greene
Junior Selection: Don't You Know There's a War On? by Avi
Children's Selection: Just Like New by Ainslie Manson & Illustrated by Karen Reczuch
2003
Main Selection: Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Junior Selection: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Chlidren's Selection:Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting & Illustrated by Ronald Himler