Each summer, Michigan Technological University sponsors a summer reading program called Reading as Inquiry. The program requires all first-year, incoming students to read a selected book before arriving at Michigan Tech and be prepared to discuss the book with Discussion Leaders and peers. Through critical reading of the book, the Reading as Inquiry program hopes to prepare each incoming student for college-level reading, inquiry, and discussion.
This year's book is Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal. The book recounts the tale of Conor Grennan's volunteer work at a Nepali orphanage, the Little Prince's Children's Home. Shortly after his second trip to the orphanage, Grennan discovers a horrible truth: these children were not orphaned, but taken from their homes by child traffickers, and later abandoned far from their families. Little Princes chronicles Grennan's commitment to provide a safe home for the children of Nepal, and reunite the children with their families.
