The One Book Project is a countywide reading and discussion project that fosters empathy, promotes awareness, and strengthens the fabric of our community by exploring the themes in this year’s One Book selection, Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig. About the Fall 2023 Primary Title Sitting Pretty: The […]
The Primary Title The One Book Project is a communitywide reading and discussion project inviting everyone to read and discuss the themes of civil rights, tolerance, diversity, acceptance, and courage. About the Fall 2022 Primary Title When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she […]
This September – November, One Book, One Bakersfield, One Kern (The One Book Project) is encouraging the entire community to share experiences related to a single book’s themes through discussions, educational programming, and entertainment. The read is meant to pull a community together, cross cultural divides, and enhance understanding of our diversity, all while supporting literacy. […]
The Primary Title The One Book Project is a community-wide reading and discussion project inviting everyone to read and discuss the themes of immigration and assimilation. About the Primary Title As an immigrant in an unfamiliar country, with an indifferent mother and abusive father, Reyna had few resources at her disposal, but she is determined to […]
This September – November, One Book, One Bakersfield, One Kern (The One Book Project) is encouraging the entire community to share experiences related to a single book’s themes through discussions, educational programming, and entertainment. The read is meant to pull a community together, cross cultural divides, and enhance understanding of our diversity, all while supporting literacy. […]
This September – November, One Book, One Bakersfield, One Kern (The One Book Project) is encouraging the entire community to share experiences related to a single book’s themes through discussions, educational programming, and entertainment. The read is meant to pull a community together, cross cultural divides, and enhance understanding of our diversity, all while supporting literacy. Are […]
______________________________________________________________ About the Book A revelatory account of a kind of poverty so extreme, and so often hidden, most Americans don’t think it exists. Kathryn Edin teamed up with Luke Shaefer to make a surprising discovery: the number of American families living on $2.00 per person, per day, has skyrocketed to one and a half million […]
1st One Book, One Bakersfield Read March 21st – May 15th, 2002 Organized by community volunteer, Jillian Stump-Fritch, the first One Book Project engaged Kern County Library and included a wide variety of community programming and funding partners. The One Book Project was modeled on One Book Chicago. Following Seattle, Chicago, and Los Angeles, Bakersfield was one […]
2nd One Book, One Bakersfield Read July – October, 2002 Community volunteer, Jillian Fritch and the One Book Project steering team, organized the 2nd read. This One Book coincided with the California State Read of The Grapes of Wrath, for which the Kern County Library received 8 mini-grants at 8 library branches throughout Kern County. This read also coincided […]
