The World’s Best Thin Books: What to Read When Your Book Report is Due Tomorrow new thinner edition

Book reports are popular in secondary schools and bring together English teaching, library resources, and personal reading and literacy. Writing reports often widens and deepens the ways young people understand books and know more of them, but just as often it becomes a mechanical chore which needs to be done for assessment purposes. Seeing “thin books” will probably evoke cynical reactions about making the whole process easier, but thin books are often hard and challenging. Bodart, an US consultant on teen reading, includes many challenging works ‐ The Little Prince, The Cay, I Heard the Owl Call My Name, The...