Tag: Fox Cities Reads

Three seventh-graders form Maplewood Middle School in Menasha ended the mystery by announcing this year’s book for Fox Cities Reads as Sharon Draper’s “Stella By Starlight.” The book is the story of a girl in a small South Carolina town who battles prejudice when the Ku Klux Klan comes to town. Libraries across the Fox […]

The Fox Cities Book Festival received a $2,500 grant from the Bright Idea Fund within the Community Foundation to support free public presentations by Matthew Desmond, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, which is the book selected for the Fox Cities Reads. Desmond speaks April 11 at 6:30 p.m. […]

In November, I was asked to reflect upon the 2022 Fox Cities Reads featuring indigenous author Tommy Orange and his book There, There. November was National Native American Heritage Month, as well as a very painful reminder of a dark chapter in our nation’s history. While many of us with European ancestry were busy overeating […]