Summer Reading!

Matt, a white quarterback from Montreal, Quebec, flies to France (without his parents' permission) to play football and escape family pressure. Freeman, a black football player from San Antonio, Texas, is in Paris on a school trip when he hears about a team playing American football in a rough, low-income suburb called Villeneuve-La-Grande. Matt and Free join the Diables Rouges and make friends with the other players, who come from many different ethnic groups. Racial tension erupts into riots in Villeneuve when some of their Muslim teammates get in trouble with the police, and Matt and Free have to decide whether to get involved and face the very real risk of arrest and violence.

This summer’s new exciting book for the reading challenge is Away Running. Away Running has been reviewed by School Library Journal Xpress as “An eye-opening book” and “relatable to a wide variety of people”.

About the book...

To attend the luncheon all you need to do is take digital notes as you read that stay in your account, even after the book is returned. Print the notes and share with your teacher!

To find the book go to Desiney. Away Running is available to all students in Destiny as an eBook.

1. Any summer reading assignment completed by a student can be turned in to Mrs. Meltzer or Mrs. Haroth. 2. Any summer reading assignment completed can be swapped our for a homework grade in an English class. 3. The summer reading celebration is for any student and/or teacher who participated and will be held after school (since there will be food) by the end of September.