Book 15 - Go Ask Alice

Book 15: Go Ask Alice (author Anonymous)

Go Ask Alice
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I've always wanted to get my hand on this book, and now I finally have. I read it this afternoon, and I'm left feeling extremely saddened by this true account of one teenager's experience with drugs and addiction. Being familiar with the very scary world of addiction, it touched somewhat close to home in regards to knowing people who struggle with addiction in my own life.

I teach two sections of literacy with struggling readers. Half the battle of this class is simply getting these kid to read. I invite them to read anything, including websites (though I'm firm on allowing them to read Facebook and games they try to play during class time). I've spent many, many hours this past year trying to find low-level, high-interest book for my students, and after sifting through hundreds of books, I'm proud to say that my classroom library is really becoming something great. I've seen my students read more and more as the weeks pass, which is excellent; however, we are midway through April, and school is ending soon. I'm afraid my students are going to fall out of reading over the summer and have to start their progress all over again in August. But to hell with it - while I have them, we spend a TON of time reading now, and that's all that matters.

I'm going to talk about this book in class tomorrow, and I'm fairly certain that this book will be hard to keep on my shelf - YAY!