The Big Read
January 12th, 2010
Sunapee Middle High School Library will be joining many libraries across the state in promoting this year’s NH Big Read. This year’s book selection is To Kill a Mockingbird and will be read in February and March throughout New Hampshire. While some students will read the book this winter as part of their high school English class curriculum, thanks to a grant by the National Endowment of the Arts and the NH Center for the Book, all interested students will be able to read along by picking up a copy of the book in the SMHS Library. A town-wide book discussion for late-March is currently being planned.
“To Kill a Mockingbird is a superb book on many levels. It’s a powerful story about racial prejudice and its consequences, but it’s also a beautifully written story of the relationship between a father and his children, who learn, by his example, the true meaning of courage and justice. It offers many interesting themes for discussion and programming including justice for all, the role of the lawyer in society, standing up for what is right, single parenting, weighing tough choices….” Read more at the New Hampshire Center for the Book website.
The Big Read: NH Reads To Kill a Mockingbird is a project of the Center for the Book at the NH State Library. The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.
Sunapee High School students are invited to nominate books for the Flume: NH Teen Readers’ Choice Award. Suggestions of fiction and nonfiction books that appeal to teens in grades 9-12, with publication dates from 2007-2009, are requested. Submit your nominations online at the 