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Vermont Reads 2012 Announced
Bull Run by Paul Fleischman with The Red Badge of Courage as a Second Choice
The Vermont Humanities Council is pleased to announce that Vermont Reads 2012 will feature Paul Fleischman’s Bull Run, a beautifully written novella that takes place during the Civil War. It is written in the first person from the point of view of sixteen different characters, eight northerners and eight southerners — male, female, black, white, old, young, soldier, and civilian. The award-winning book focuses on the social context of the war, the run-up to the first battle of the war, and its aftermath as well as on the battle itself.
Also as part of Vermont Reads 2012, VHC is encouraging communities to read The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane’s classic and groundbreaking story of heroism and weakness in the face of war’s indifference to the fate of individuals.
Fleischman is the author of the hugely successful Vermont Reads 2005 selection, Seedfolks, which tells through multiple voices how the planting of a garden in a vacant lot creates community.
Each year, communities around the state have the opportunity to bring people together to read, discuss, and build activities around that year’s selected book. In 2011 communities read the classic beloved To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In 2010 more than one hundred communities read The Day of the Pelican by Katherine Paterson. Vermont Reads was launched in 2003 with Witness by Karen Hesse.
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