Book clubs are the most effective tool to build kids' reading habits. Why is that so?
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?