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The Book That Changed My Life: Didn't You CRY?
In ninth grade I was blessed with an English teacher, Miss Soule, who really loved books. (Not always the case with English teachers, witness my tenth grade teacher, who pronounced genre with a hard g.) Miss Soule had a standing weekly assignment for which we were required to turn in...
Review of March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine
March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nineby Melba Pattillo Beals;
illus. by Frank MorrisonIntermediate, Middle School Houghton 214 pp.1/18 978-1-328-88212-7 $16.99Beals, author of the adult memoir
Warriors Don’t Cry, received the
Congressional Gold Medal for her bravery in helping to integrate Central High School in 1957 as...
The Book That Changed My Life: A Couple of Misfits
It’s obvious from the very beginning of Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park that the two of them are a couple of misfits. I couldn’t imagine how their worlds would overlap, much less merge, and I bet Eleanor and Park didn’t either. From being weird, misfitty friends, they gradually start to...
Review of Speak: The Graphic Novel
Speak: The Graphic Novelby Laurie Halse Anderson; illus. by Emily CarrollHigh School Farrar 376 pp.2/18 978-0-374-30028-9 $19.99In this new graphic novel adaptation of Anderson’s Speak (rev. 9/99) — a powerful narrative of a high school freshman’s year of self-preservation after a brutal sexual assault — artist Carroll starkly renders protagonist...
The Book That Changed My Life: Hearts So Full
Asking me to write about a book that changed my life is like asking me to choose just one star. Hundreds have changed me, each shining its own light, each from its own station in the firmament, all of those stations slowly whirling so I see them from new vantage...
Review of A Stone for Sascha
A Stone for Saschaby Aaron Becker; illus. by the authorPrimary Candlewick 48 pp. g5/18 978-0-7636-6596-8 $17.99Heartbreak turns into healing in this wordless tale about loss, the ways in which we ritualize grief, and the cyclical patterns of life on Earth, no less. A girl and her family bury their beloved...
Week in Review, May 7th-11th
This week on hbook.com…From the May/June 2018 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Making a Difference: The Book That Changed My Life series "A Dangerous Book" by Eugene Yelchin "My Heart's Music" by Andrea Davis Pinkney "Jo March Is Me" by Mitali Perkins "Not-So-Simple Semple" by Derrick Barnes "A Sense of Possibility"...
The Book That Changed My Life: A Sense of Possibility
I am sitting at my desk, age seventy-five, and I am searching my mind, going way back for “a book that changed my life.” I’ve managed to get as far back as the late 1940s in Sydney, Australia. There I am on my stomach on the living-room floor and…no, that...
The Book That Changed My Life: Not-So-Simple Semple
I began my writing career in the fifth grade, penning rap lyrics, love letters, and short stories. But in the sixth grade, my teacher, Mrs. Davis, introduced me to the writers and poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I remember being as fascinated by those writers as I was by the...
Review of Jabberwalking
Jabberwalkingby Juan Felipe HerreraMiddle School, High School Candlewick 138 pp.3/18 978-1-5362-0140-6 $22.99Paper ed. 978-0-7636-9264-3 $14.99In a loose and jazzy style (and with a nod to Lewis Carroll), the former U.S. Poet Laureate offers instructions for “Jabberwalking,” or writing poetry while in motion: “You have to move fast! / Move, move,...
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