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Wil Haygood will return to Kent County High School in March of 2019
Wil Haygood has had notable careers in book writing and journalism. As a reporter for the Boston Globe, he reported from around the world. While covering the civil war in Somalia, he was taken hostage by rebel troops and rescued by the Pakistani Army. At the Washington Post, he wrote the story of White House butler Eugene Allen that was turned into the award-winning movie THE BUTLER, starring, among others, Oprah Winfrey, Forest Whitaker, and Robin Williams. Haygood - the first in his family to attend college - has written eight non-fiction books, the latest of which is TIGERLAND, which tells the triumphant story of a segregated high school in 1969 that won two Ohio state athletic championships against the turmoil of a nation at war.
The Visiting Distinguished Scholar in Media at Miami University, Ohio, Haygood was the 2017 Patrick Henry Fellow at Washington College, where he completed TIGERLAND. The recipient of numerous journalism and literary awards, Haygood received the 2018 Presidential Medal from Miami University, Ohio, the highest honor bestowed by the university.
The Visiting Distinguished Scholar in Media at Miami University, Ohio, Haygood was the 2017 Patrick Henry Fellow at Washington College, where he completed TIGERLAND. The recipient of numerous journalism and literary awards, Haygood received the 2018 Presidential Medal from Miami University, Ohio, the highest honor bestowed by the university.
Wil Haygood meets with a group of Kent County High School athletes to discuss Tigerland, athletics, and GRIT.
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Annotation of All American Boy by Jason Reynolds: "When 16-year-old Rashad Butler, an African-American student at the local high school, is beaten by a white police officer at the local corner store, his classmate Quinn Collins witnesses the event. Quinn, a member of the varsity basketball team who has been raised by the officer since his own father died in Afghanistan, will be forced to face the mounting racial tension among his teammates, many who are Rashad's friends, his classmates, and the entire community. Told in the alternating voices of Rashad and Quinn, this story portrays the truth that racism in American is sadly still alive. It will take the bravery of both boys to step forward and speak against injustice. “Timely and powerful, this novel promises to have an impact long after the pages stop turning” (SLJ)." (Mackin).
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"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter is trying to balance her suburban prep school life with the poor, black neighborhood where she lives when she witnesses her childhood best friend Khalil get shot and killed by a police officer. As tensions mount and her city erupts in protests, the only person who knows the truth of that night is Starr, and what she does or doesn't say can change everyone's lives forever" (Mackin).
"In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place" (Mackin).
"In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all" (Mackin).
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"One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears" (Mackin).
"Two-time Hunger Games survivor Katniss Everdeen is targeted by a vengeful Capitol that vows to make Katniss and all Districk 12 pay for the current unrest" (Mackin).
"Having been diagonised as a terminal cancer patient, Hazel is running out of time. When she meets Augustus Waters at the Cancer Kid Support Group, her life takes an unexpected turn" (Mackin.)"
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"While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death" (Mackin).
"Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives" (Mackin).
"Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return" (Mackin). |