Our Vermont Reads 2022 choice, The Most Costly Journey (El viaje más caro), tells the stories of 19 migrant farm workers from Latin America in their own words.
The “March” Trilogy was written by civil rights icon John Lewis, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and award-winning graphic artist Nate Powell. All three volumes illustrate the story of Lewis’s commitment to nonviolent protest in the pursuit of social justice.
Vermont Reads is Vermont Humanities’ statewide community reading program. These books are all high-quality young-adult level works that offer food for thought for all ages.
The lingering effects of slavery, the Civil War, and rural strife provide a complex background in this series of Pulitzer-winning novels set in the American South.
When Cultures Meet: First Contact in the Lake Champlain Basin
By Vermont Humanities | April 5, 2018
In fiction and nonfiction, the series explores the ramifications of contact between Europeans and the native inhabitants in the Champlain Basin and New England generally, and the ensuing history of the region.