Okay, so let’s talk about The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Somehow, I skipped reading this book as a ki
Okay, so let’s talk about The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Somehow, I skipped reading this book as a kid. I just read it with my 7th-grade class before Christmas Break…and by that, I mean, I had to read it aloud in four different classes…so I feel like I know it really well. My kids HATED it. Utterly despised it. I think part of it was that it was too high of a reading level for them, and the other part is that it was a bunch of white kids, and I teach no white kids. So who knows some good middle school age books with black and Hispanic characters??? What book do you think I could read aloud to my kids that they would be interested in?? They all want to read The Hate U Give, but I may have to get approval from parents for that one. Much love, Lauren -- source link