The teacher-readers at Three Teachers Talk agree. The only way to promote, encourage, foster, nourish, and engage readers is to let them read. We thank The Reading Zone for this post. Our thoughts exactly.
- Flowers in the Attic
- A Wrinkle in Time
- As I Lay Dying
- Mists of Avalon
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- The Hobbit
- Little Women
- Anne of Avonlea
- the Bible
- Cold Mountain
- Angela’s Ashes
- The Celestine Prophecy
- Dreamland
- Speak
- The Hot Zone
A list of books you can find at garage sales or friends of the library sales? Probably. But the above-named books are also just some of the books I chose to read in high school. They weren’t assigned books but instead were books that friends and I passed around. Of course we read Hemingway, Salinger, Achebe, and Shakespeare in school. Well, we “read” those. I can tell you exactly which assigned books I read and which ones I “read”. But the books I picked on my own and the ones my friends were all talking about? Those I didn’t put down until I turned that last page.
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