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All-School Read 2025
All School Read 2025
The purpose of the Mill Valley Middle School All School Read (ASR) program is to foster a shared community reading experience that builds empathy and a love of reading by creating student and school engagement around a common theme. This year’s two week All School Read program features activities such as discussions, workshops, art projects, and special events related to the theme of disability awareness. The All School Read is a collaborative program sponsored by district level community partners including its main sponsor the MVMS Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) and supporting sponsor It Takes A Village (ITAV). The All School Read program directly aligns with our district's commitment to building a positive school climate that promotes student engagement around topics that accurately reflect the diversity in identities and experiences that exist among our students, staff, and school community.
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6th Grade Out of My Mind, Sharon Draper
Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school-but NO ONE knows it. Most people don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again and again. If only she could speak up, if only she could tell people what she thinks and knows. But she can't. She can't talk. She can't walk. She can't write.
Being stuck inside her head is making Melody go out of her mind-that is, until she discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time ever. At last Melody has a voice . . . but not everyone around her is ready to hear it. (Draper, 2021)
Resources for Out of My Mind
7th Grade Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, Dusti Bowling
“Whoa! What happened to your arms?”
Aven Green gets that question a lot. She loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she’ll have to answer the question over and over again. Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability, and they discover a room at Stagecoach Pass that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined. (Bowling, 2023)
Resources for Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
8th Grade The Running Dream, Wendelin Van Draanen
Sixteen-year-old Jessica lives to run but when a tragic accident results in her leg being amputated below the knee, her running dreams are shattered. During her recovery she gets to know Rosa—-a girl with cerebral palsy whom she had previously ignored. Rosa helps Jessica believe in a future with unexpected opportunities. With the support of her coach, friends, family and community, Jessica starts to wonder if it is possible not only to walk again, but to run. (Van Draanen, ND).
Resources for The Running Dream