One Book * One School * One Community 2012

Kilmer Middle School has chosen the book Trash by Andy Mulligan as the first ever selection in our One Book * One School * One Community effort during the Summer of 2012. This is not required reading, nor will there be any academic assessments on this book.

AWARDS

• Carnegie Medal 2012 shortlist (British literary award recognizing an outstanding book for children or young adults, conferred by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)
• Rhode Island Teen Book Award 2012
• 2011 Best Fiction for Young Adults, Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
• School Library Journal Best Books 2010
  

NON-FICTION BOOKS TO PAIR WITH THE NOVELTRASH

• Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
• The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession With Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health -- And a Vision for Change by Annie Leonard
• Trash Talk: What You Throw Away by Amy Tilmont and others 
  

RELATED WEB SITES

• The Dump Kids (Cambodian Communities out of Crisis)
• Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground (PBS Frontline World)
• United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
• UNICEF
  

Kilmer's One Book Poster 2012

Listen to the first few pages read aloud:

Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping on it. Then one unlucky-lucky day, the world turns upside down. A small leather bag falls into his hands. It’s a bag of clues. It’s a bag of hope. It’s a bag that will change everything. Soon Raphael and his friends are running for their lives. Hounded by the police, it takes all their quick-thinking and fast-talking to stay ahead. As the net tightens, they uncover a dead man’s mission to put right a terrible wrong. And it's three street-boys against the world...

Author Andy Muligan's web site 

PARTICIPATE

Take pictures of yourself reading Trash and tweet them to@kilmerlibrary or e-mail them to kilmerlibrary <at> fcps.edu for display on the Kilmer Middle School web site. 

Use the hashtag #1bookkms when discussing the book on Twitter!

QUESTIONS?

Please contact Gretchen Hazlin, Kilmer Librarian, if you have any questions about our common book project.