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.
These novels richly illustrate coming-of-age themes against the backdrop of World War II with three memorable protagonists- an Army bombardier, a girl on the American homefront, and a teenage survivor of the Nazi genocide.
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.
This series explores how different authors and communities understand the multiple definitions and connotations of ecological sustainability and try to make it work in the world.
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.
These four books help to introduce post-colonial Africa to the novice and explore some of the continent’s crises in greater depth, including the West’s complicity in them.
