“It takes an adult to make a child hate knowing things" -M.T. Anderson
Books make people smarter in all sorts of important ways. I like comparing getting the right book into the right student's hands to watering my garden. A slew of young adult authors are making a point to talk to kids about the importance of being a critical thinker and an aware, engaging citizen. I support them. I'll do my best to get kids reading books they enjoy and are willing to discuss and dissect. That's what good books do. They getting us thinking, talking, and growing.
Here are a few titles of books I've read or read about recently. They are certainly ones that will get readers thinking...and hopefully talking.
High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker
WinterGirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Disreputable Life of Frankie Landau-Banks by e. lockhart
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Read on!
-stenson
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