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Posted: 10:35 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012

Students skype with acclaimed writer

By Nancy Badertscher

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A group of students at Roswell’s Holcomb Bridge Middle School had a unique conversation with Linda Sue Park, Newbery Prize-winning author of A Long Walk to Water, on Dec. 11. The virtual Internet discussion with Park in Rochester, N.Y. touched on a schoolwide push to read her book and a pledge by the school’s teachers and students to raise $10,000 to help build a primary school in South Sudan, the world’s newest countries. Students were selected to participate in the conversation with Park based on essays they wrote explaining their desire to help the people of Sunday or how reading Park’s book affected their lives.

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