How can we encourage children, used to fast paced books, to read the classics?
New Kid is the story of the struggle of twelve-year-old African American Jordan Banks as tries to navigate two very different cultural silos (the elite private school which has very little diversity, and his home neighbourhood where he is a middle-class boy), while trying to gain acceptance for being who he is.
You are the bookstore and you’ve told your ten-year-old child that she can pick a book. In five minutes she comes back to you with her chosen book.
“Not another one of these,” you complain.
Your child pouts, “But I want this book.”
Why do I have reservations about reading Harry Potter?
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