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One of the things I’ll remember most (about this summer at Breakthrough) was our theme, “Readers are Leaders.”

After several years of summer themes that were worthwhile but abstract (“Oh, The Places You’ll Go”), we opted this time for something more tangible. Besides reading two novels for their summer Reading class, students were pushed to read as much as possible on their own. They recorded their progress on the website Destiny Quest and also made paper chains, one link per book, competing for the longest. Bulletin boards around the school recommended titles in different genres (mystery, biography, fantasy) or shared the favorite books of notable leaders (President Obama – among others, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon).