Join Ann Arbor based YA author Patrick Flores-Scott for an analysis of the chapter titled "Monday: Rashad" – the third of Patrick's three-part review of the 2021 Washtenaw Read, All American Boys.

For all of Patrick's reviews, visit this page.

Join Ann Arbor based YA author Patrick Flores-Scott for an analysis of the chapter titled "Saturday: Rashad" – the first of Patrick's three-part review of the 2021 Washtenaw Read, All American Boys. 

For all of Patrick's reviews, visit this page.

Have you read the 2021 Washtenaw Read?

Each week, a few AADL staff members have a brief chat to answer one question – from "What's your favorite classic?" to "What book didn't live up to the hype?" – in just a few minutes. This week we break from that format to have a brief discussion of the 2021 Washtenaw Read, All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, as part of the larger weeks-long community discussion of this book.

Join AADL staff and community members for a live discussion of the 2021 Washtenaw Read, All American Boys.   

Can't participate in the live event?  Check out this recording of AADL Staff discussing the 2021 Read! 

This event is part of the 2021 Washtenaw Read. For more information, see https://aadl.org/washtenawreads. 

Watch a recording of AADL staff discussing this year's Washtenaw Reads selection, All American Boys, by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely.

Community members can join in a public discussion on Wednesday, February 10, lead by AADL staff!

This event is part of the 2021 Washtenaw Read. For more information, see https://aadl.org/washtenawreads. 

Join Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely for a special conversation about the 2021 Washtenaw Reads selection, All American Boys. They discuss how they came to write All American Boys together, the importance of the book's themes in their own lives, and how we can create meaningful inter-racial dialogue around issues like police brutality. 

In 2011, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in the New York Times Magazine.

"Documented" chronicles Vargas' journey to America from the Philippines as a child; his public struggle as an immigration reform activist/provocateur; and his journey inward as he reconnects with his mother, whom he hasn't seen in 20 years. A broken immigration system leads to broken families and broken lives.

This 89-minute 2013 documentary is unrated. 

Join us for a discussion of the 2020 Washtenaw Read: Dear America: Notes of An Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Antonio Vargas.

Jose Antonio Vargas will speak at Washtenaw Community College at 7pm on Thursday, January 30.

This event is part of the 2020 Washtenaw Read. For more information about Washtenaw Reads and previous years' reads, visit wread.org.

Jose Antonio Vargas comes to Ann Arbor to discuss his new memoir, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, the 2020 Washtenaw Reads selection.

In Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid, local author William D. Lopez examines the lasting damage done by this daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan.