I love middle grades novels and I am used to reading the very best ones. I don’t read them as books for children, I read and enjoy them the way I do any book — because they tell good stories, because they introduce me to characters that I want to know, and because they make […]
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Some Places More Than Others by Renée Watson
For the suitcase project, Amara’s teacher tells the class, “Everything and everyone tells a story.” This theme runs through the book taking Amara from her home in Beaverton, Oregon to Harlem, New York as she constructs HER story of place.
Just Ask by Sonia Sotomayor
Be different. Be brave. Be you.