Coming in September and October 2008...
Randolph Reads invites all residents of Randolph and surrounding counties to read A Home on the Field: How One Championship Soccer Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America by Paul Cuadros, and join in community discussions about issues raised in this inspiring and moving book.
The goals of Randolph Reads A Home on the Field are to improve race relations and increase the understanding of the greater community about who the Latino immigrants are, why they are here, how they came and what challenges they face in our community.
Randolph Reads is sponsored by the Latino Coalition of Randolph County in partnership with the Friends of the Library, the Randolph Arts Guild and the Randolph County Public Library, and includes representation from the Asheboro City Schools, the Asheboro Police Department, Randolph Community College and the Randolph County Schools.
A Home on the Field
For more than ten years, the small town of Siler City, North Carolina, has been at the front lines of immigration, drawing workers from Latin America as well as from traditional Latino enclaves across the United States. When reporter Paul Cuadros moved south to study the impact of the burgeoning Latino community, he encountered a volatile culture clash between longtime residents and the newcomers, one that eventually boiled over into an anti-immigrant rally featuring ex-Klansman David Duke. The bitter struggle imbued Cuadros with a new purpose: to show the growing number of Latino youth that their lives could be more than menial work at the local poultry plant. Soccer would be the key to helping these boys find a better place in this world.
A Home on the Field is Paul Cuadros’s unforgettable account of his three seasons coaching “Los Jets” of Jordan Matthews High School, a team of under-appreciated young Latino soccer players in an all-football town who overcame prejudice, poverty and the odds to become champions.
Copies of A Home on the Field are available @ your library.