About Rochester Reads
Now in its eighth 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 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 February
2010.
Previous Rochester Reads Selections
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
