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Geneva Reads Plans Selection of Next's Year's Community Read

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Geneva Reads has narrowed the choices for next year’s community read to five possible titles.

The five titles are 1) When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago, 2) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon, 3) First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung, 4) A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah, and 5) Just Like Us by Helen Thorpe.

Geneva Reads plans to poll the public on the five titles being considered. The first poll will be conducted at the Geneva Reads Children's Book Fest on May 1st, which is being held at the Geneva Community Center from Noon to 3 p.m. Online polls will be run on www.genevareads.org and www.genevapubliclibrary.net beginning the first week of May and running until Saturday, May 22nd.

The group hopes to make its selection for the March 2011 program in early June.

Geneva Reads sponsored two community reads in 2010. In March, The Color of Water by James McBride was the community pick. Some 400 students at the Geneva City Schools participated, as well as several book clubs and other groups in the community. Over 100 books were sold and distributed in the community and several programs and discussion were also held. The author, James McBride, spoke at in Geneva on April 5th at Albright Auditorium. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Relin was read community-wide in January and David Relin spoke in Geneva on January 26th.

The Geneva Reads Initiative is a partnership between schools and libraries, government and community agencies, and others in Geneva, to raise the level of literacy in people of all ages and to increase the importance of reading and the reader in the community. Participants include the Geneva Public Library, The Geneva City School District, the City of Geneva, the Geneva Human Rights Commission, the African American Men’s Association, Geneva Headstart, The Finger Lakes Times and others.