One Book, One School

THE 2023-2024 OBOS SELECTION IS: 

The OBOS program focuses on developing literacy but is also designed to build community and promote the character-building theme Stanley has adopted for that school year. The theme for the 2023-2024 school year is “Everyone Belongs” and Stanley is thrilled to share that the book we have chosen to read is You Are Here: Connecting Flights.

You are Here: Connecting Flights explores themes of identity and belonging in the entwined experiences of young people whose family roots may extend to East and Southeast Asia, but who are themselves distinctly American. The stories are written by Linda Sue Park, Erin Entrada Kelly, Grace Lin, Traci Chee, Mike Chen, Meredith Ireland, Mike Jung, Minh Lê, Ellen Oh, Randy Ribay, Christina Soontornvat, and Susan Tan, and Ellen Oh. Oh is also a founding member of We Need Diverse Books (WNDB), a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing diversity in children’s literature.

PREVIOUS ONE BOOK, ONE SCHOOL BOOK TITLES:

2022-2023 Wink by Rob Harrell

2021-2022 They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

2020-2021 Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson

2019-2020:  Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton

2018-2019:  Restart by Gordon Korman

2017-2018: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

2016-2017:  The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson

2015-2016:  I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

2014-2015:  Paperboy by Vince Vawter

2013-2014: Unstoppable by Tim Green

2012-2013:  Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai

2011-2012:  A Long Walk to Water: based on a true story by Linda Sue Park

2010-2011:  All Shook Up by Shelley Pearsall 

2009-2010:  Peak by Roland Smith

2008-2009:  Secrets, Lies and Algebra by Wendy Lichtman