Posted: 09/01/2010

Outcasts United highlighted by One Maryland One Book   The Maryland Center for the Book, a program of the Maryland Humanities Council has selected Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town by Warren St. John as the featured title for the third-annual statewide community reading project, One Maryland One Book. The One Maryland One Book project brings together diverse people in communities across the state through the shared experience of reading the same book and participating in book-centered discussions and other related programs. This year's selected book is Outcasts United, the story of a soccer team of refugee boys from war zones in Liberia, Congo, Sudan, Iraq  and Afghanistan called the Fugees; their coach, Luma Mufleh; and the town where they live - Clarkstown, Georgia - a sleepy, souther town upended by refugee resettlement. During the summer, Marylanders will be reading the book to prepare for programs being held across the state in September and October. For more information, visit www.onemarylandonebook.org.