2025 One Maryland One Book
Kin: Rooted in Hope
By Carole Boston Weatherford
Art by Jeffery Boston Weatherford
Maryland Humanities is pleased to announce that the selection for the 2025 One Maryland One Book is Kin: Rooted in Hope.
Released in 2024, the book is a work of art, history, and personal genealogy – the authors’ search into their family tree led them to ancestors who were among the founders of Maryland.
Reader’s Guide
Every year we work with educators and partners to bring you relevant information to enhance your reading of the One Maryland One Book. Here are some ways you can read along with us.
Read a welcome message from Maryland Humanities staff.
See bios, statements, and learn more about the book’s themes.
Activities in the Teacher’s Guide assist in the practice of these Maryland curricular requirements.
Prompts to guide your conversations about the book.
Activities and curricular guides arranged by subject for interdisciplinary exploration.
Related reading and other recommended resources to augment the book.
The people and organizations that helped us compile the content and resources of this guide.
We would not be able to reach all of Maryland without the continued support of our partners.
What if everyone read the same book at the same time, then came together to talk about it?
When we read a great book, we can’t wait to share the experience with others. That’s one of the joys of reading. In this spirit, Maryland Humanities created One Maryland One Book to bring together diverse people in communities across the state through the shared experience of reading the same book.
Now in its eighteenth year, One Maryland One Book remains Maryland’s only statewide community reading program. Each year, the selection process is guided by a common theme. The theme for 2025 is What We Collect, What We Tell.
The Maryland Center for the Book at Maryland Humanities partners with public libraries, high schools, colleges and universities, museums, bookstores, correctional facilities, and other organizations to bring book-centered discussions and other related events to communities across Maryland. But One Maryland One Book is not just about reading or literature; it is also about bringing people together for meaningful dialogue.
The book selected for 2025 is Kin: Rooted in Hope
By Carole Boston Weatherford
With art by Jeffery Boston Weatherford
Poetry © 2024 Simon and Schuster
Grab your copy
Find a free copy of Kin: Rooted in Hope at your local library or bookstore and get reading!
Maryland Humanities has partnered with libraries across the state to hold print copies of the book for giveaway, as well as supporting e-book and audio editions to their catalog.
Reach out
Each year, more than 15,000 Marylanders read the One Maryland One Book selection. How many of those people are your friends or family?
Use the book to jumpstart a meaningful conversation in person or virtually with an old friend or to make a new one.
Pull up a chair
We invite you to join Maryland Humanities and thousands of other Marylanders at one of the many book discussions and related events happening around the state and online from mid-September to mid-November, including the author tour in October.
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