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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son will not read for pleasure. But last years teacher was able to get him interested in what they were reading. I don’t know how. I will miss her.

I make him read one book a summer. I was trying to push over to audio books but that didn’t work.

Books he likes when forced, which often happen to be by black authors about black kids and other kids of color.

Dear Martin
Ghost by Jason Reynolds (didn’t like the sequel much though)
Anything by Kwame Alexander
Any decent ghost stories. He’d LOVE more ghost stories.

He did not like Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson or Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich.  He did not like Hatchet. (I know that’s not by a BIPOC.)

He also needs some help picking a book. He will naturally pick a book about sports, but that’s not necessarily what appeals about a book to him. I think he likes the struggles the protagonist/other kids face and (mostly) overcome. 
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These choices make sense. My own students love anything Jason Reynolds, some like Kwame (they think he’s a rip-off Reynolds if they don’t), Dear Martin was popular. I love Louise Erdrich and assume the teacher was trying to include an indigenous author but can see how that wouldn’t be a great fit for a young teen. [/quote]

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