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Help an adult student learn to read or help with a special event. There are many ways to help us start a reading revolution!
If you or your organization is helping to create a Reading/Learning Community in the Mid-South or you need additional resources to make your program flourish, join us! We can help.
Read Across America Month Begins March 2014!
This March is Read Across America Month at Literacy Mid-South! We will have special events, book giveaways, author visits, and more. In 2012-2013, Literacy Mid-South's Book of Choice was read by more than 5000 Mid-Southerners! We're very proud to say that we're giving away more books than ever to kids in low-income communities this year!
We've chosen two books for March. First, our family Book of Choice is Neversink by local author Barry Wolverton. Barry's masterful middle-grade debut, Neversink, is an epic tale of some very un-epic birds, a fast-paced and funny story of survival, friendship, and fish, in the vein of Watership Down and Kathi Appelt'sThe Underneath.
Our adult Book of Choice is Life is So Good by Richard Glaubman and George Dawson. In this remarkable book, George Dawson, a slave’s grandson who learned to read at age 98 and lived to the age of 103, reflects on his life and shares valuable lessons in living, as well as a fresh, firsthand view of America during the entire sweep of the twentieth century.
Join us for special events, nominate a Literacy Leader in your community, and start a book club to read one or both of our Spring Books of Choice!
Upcoming Events
Reading Flash Mob
We're having a Reading Flash Mob at Overton Park on March 15th as part of our citywide reading campaign. Come hang out at the park with a picnic blanket, some friends, and lunch and enjoy the weather and a good book. We want to fill Overton Park with readers!
Special prizes will be given to those spotted reading our 2014 Books of Choice, Neversink and Life is So Good! Stop by the Literacy Mid-South tent and say hello!
Questions? Email us(jrhodin [at] literacymidsouth [dot] org)!
What Are You Reading, Memphis?
WHAT ARE YOU READING, MEMPHIS?
Tweet about it between March 1 and March 31 and you could win a gift basket from the Booksellers at Laurelwood!
#ReadMemphis
Our Twitter Handle: LiteracyMSouth
