Why I Love Hard Copy Books
One Saturday last November, I stepped into the place I missed going to the most during quarantine—my local public library. The familiar shelves made me smile behind my mask. The building looked mostly the same as I remembered it from more than a year and a half ago. As a child, the library was my […]
Read More
Time Travel, Mind Reading, and New Families
Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn’t Ask For by Sara Pascoe is about a foster child who discovers her powers as an “integrator”—commonly known as a witch—in present-day England. When we meet Raya, 14, she’s in her new placement in the English countryside with her 11-year-old foster brother Jake and foster parent Angie. […]
Read More
Pride and Prejudice and ESL
I was careful not to fall as I slowly climbed up the wooden ladder to the dusty attic. The stuffy space smelled of damp socks and spoiled milk. In the dim light from the tiny attic window, I found the enormous cardboard box of books I was looking for. As a 3rd grader with a […]
Read More
Book Review: Forty-Cent Tip
When I heard that Forty-Cent Tip was a collection of immigrant stories compiled by a group of students from three New York City International high schools, I immediately wanted to check it out. I came to New York from the Dominican Republic eight years ago, and I attend the International High School at Union Square. […]
Read More