Welcome to
ALL AMERICA READS

All America Reads is a national reading and literacy program produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy.

The ongoing program is designed to encourage reading and discussion of novels with broad appeal and accessible themes. The project selects a new novel every other year for use in classrooms across the nation.

The program is proud to announce the future featured novel, The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. Look for resources for teaching and reading The Bean Trees in the future.

For each novel, All America Reads engages a dedicated team of professional educators who apply the reading theory of Dr. Kylene Beers as they develop reading strategies and lesson plans for secondary readers.

In addition, the program provides activities and approaches to the novel that promote comprehension and discussion of the text and its themes.