![]() “Kids never forget a class where they feel expected to succeed at a deep level and are given the means to do so. Reading with Patrick brought me back to that, while my circumstances were not the same as the kids in Helena, I knew exactly how they felt about coming to Ms. I remember always wanting to be in school, less for academic reasons more for a sense of peace. It was the one place I didn’t have to deal with the issues at home. These elements allowed the book to speak to me-one that was once a Patrick and is now a teacher. She allows the reader to look through her idealism, her self-doubt and her own attempts to become the teacher she wanted to be. The transparency of her story telling is refreshing. ![]() ![]() Michelle Kuo doesn’t take on the position of hero, nor does she pretend to have had all the answers. ![]() I initially expected an inspirational story, what I found is a very human account of a friendship between a teacher, her student and the books they read. The story seems familiar, reminiscent of Dead Poets Society and Dangerous Minds, one expects a story of one heroic teacher and how she saved this boy from a life of violence through literature. Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC).Literary Voyage Around The World Reading Challenge 2018.#WomenReadWomen2019 (A Year Of Women Reading Women) Reading Progress.#ReadIntl2020 (Year Of International Literature) Reading Progress. ![]()
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