THE BIG READ - National Literacy Events for Schools and Communities

*The Towne Lake Arts Center will be applying for THE BIG READ grant and would like your recommendation for possible titles to be featured in productions / events for schools and communities next year.

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  1. Please select your favorite titles (no more than three) to be featured in possible productions for schools and communities next year.
    FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
    MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
    BLESS ME, ULTIMA by Rudolfo Anaya
    LOVE MEDICINE by Louise Erdrich
    THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    A LESSON BEFORE DYING by Enest J. Gaines
    THE MALTESE FALCON by Dasheill Hammett
    A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
    SUN, STONE, AND SHADOWS: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories edited by Jorge Hernandez
    THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston
    WASHINGTON SQUARE by Henry James
    TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
    A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA by Ursula K. LeGuin
    THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
    THE THIEF AND THE DOGS by Naguib Mahfouz
    THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
    THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O'Brien
    THE SHAWL by Cynthia Ozick
    GREAT TALES AND POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE by Edgar Allan Poe
    HOUSEKEEPING by Marilynne Robinson
    THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
    THE JOY LUCK CLUB by Amy Tan
    THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH by Leo Tolstoy
    THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER by Mark Twain
    THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
    THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY and OUR TOWN by Thornton Wilder
    OLD SCHOOL by Tobias Wolff


  1. Choose ONE poet to be featured in possible BIG READ productions / events next year:
    Emily Dickinson
    Robinson Jeffers
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow





Lisa Tucker
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