by Carol Cross | Dec 3, 2016 | Blog
This holiday season, Heroic University is once again sponsoring a display in the Town of Cary’s Gifting Tree program. Academy Street in downtown Cary is lined with small evergreen trees that are decorated by Cary groups and organizations to represent their...
by Carol Cross | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog
I like to read North Carolina authors, and I like to read multicultural authors, so this book is a “twofer” because author Renée Ahdieh is a woman of mixed race married to a Persian husband as well as an UNC-Chapel Hill graduate living in Charlotte. The...
by Carol Cross | May 30, 2016 | Blog
Now that our 2015-16 Heroic U classes are officially over, I have some time to catch up on some other great YA reading that I missed when teaching. So my first book of the summer was Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. And what a great book to...
by Carol Cross | Dec 4, 2015 | Blog
As part of the Town of Cary’s Giving Tree program, in which local community organizations decorate trees to be displayed at the Town Hall campus over the holiday season, Heroic University is sponsoring a tree. What makes our tree unique, though, is that all the...
by Carol Cross | Dec 3, 2015 | Blog
In the beginning of October, there were books hiding in bushes, lying against walls in alleys, and other assorted cubbyholes in downtown Cary. Maybe you found one? If so, you can thank the students of Heroic University for supplying your hidden literary treasure.The...
