Like most, I also read in a variety of ways, whether it be on a Kindle, Audiobook, or a physical book. I find no issue with any. I also think the popularization of writing platforms encourages more reading and creative writing, and a evolutionary develop for the love of literature. I love to give students creative writing prompts, and I think these platforms would be a good outlet for students who want to write and read on their own time.
By far one of my favorite parts of the book is how the stories all combined towards the end. The way that Roberto ends up being the author of the challenged book, and Mr. Howe is his childhood best friend and first love, warmed my heart. Also the constant advocation for the fact that a book incorporating gay characters is not a bad thing. Whether the characters in The Adventurers were gay or not did not matter, and only that students felt seen.
pickI absolutely loved the story as a whole and would love to use it in a classroom to introduce students to real life situations. I think it would not only be a good way to demonstrate to students taking action for things they care about can produce results as opposed to giving up, but also as a mentor texts of creating a variety of POVs that interconnect with one another.
I absolutely loved this book. I think that its take on book censorship is presented in a real but very appropriate way makes it a great pick for young readers! Readers can learn about different life experiences, challenges, and ideas in 165 pages making it a pick!
pickI really enjoyed this book! I loved the graphic novel approach the author took to write his memoir. This novel would be a great mentor text for students, as they could then create their own graphic novel/comic strip memoir and see that not all graphic novels have to be fictional! I think it would also be a great alternative for students who don‘t particularly like reading wordy books!
I love the way Pedro thinks about his grandfather, and how their relationship is developing. From someone he was wary about getting to know, and sharing a room with, to his own personal superhero. I also love how his grandfather interacted with him and joined in his drawings. So cute!
I really like how there is a mixture of Spanish and English in the story. It keeps it accurate to his experiences in his own memoir, rather than having everything in English. It‘s something I don‘t often see and I appreciate it.
I think as a whole, this collection of stories would be good to use as a mentor text for students. Students could choose a story to model their own short story after that teaches a life lesson. It would allow students to see different ways they could foreshadow a lesson, or characterize others in a brief way. It would allow for creative writing while also learning how to write narratives in a variety of different ways.
As a whole I really enjoyed this book. I loved all the individual characters and their stories that had nothing to do with one another, though I like to think they were all existing in the same world as one another, learning life together. It was a slice of life in every section, and would be a great piece to introduce to students to demonstrate different lived experiences, and promote critical thinking.
As I read through the book, I was adding tabs to different parts of each story where I felt the lesson that was being shared was being highlighted. However, the only story I found I did not tab as I was reading was. “Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents.“ It was not that there was nothing interesting about it, I was just so captivated by the prose-style writing that I got lost in it, and found it be more fun rather than a lesson.
so-so