Learn more about next year's iRead book "rode" by Thomas Fox Averill.
Watch Assistant Dean of Student Success John Dahlstrand talk about iREAD on WIBW 13 News.
The iRead book of choice for 2012 is “Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen” by Joe Drape. Also selected as the 2012 Kansas Reads book, "Our Boys" tells the story about the relationship between a coach, his football team and the small town of Smith Center, Kansas.
“Joe Drape, a sportswriter at The New York Times, first noticed the school a couple of years back, when the Redmen went through a full season undefeated - without giving up a single point. So he moved his wife and 3-year-old son to Smith Center, population 1,644, and set about chronicling the 2008 season. The result is a new book, Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen. Drape ...[states] ... that he envisioned the project as a modern-day Friday Night Lights set on the Great Plains, but it became something more. ”
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