Diary of a Part Time Harlemite...and Book Thief
Last year I read and responded to Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
This year it will be Markus Zusak's The Book Thief
I'll also be posting my thoughts on YA literature, the experience of reading in the digital age & thoughts from the Teaching Reading in Secondary ELA class I'm teaching this year. You can find out more about our project at: #teachread.
For more from this Part-Time Harlemite, you can find me at: developingwriters.org and on Twitter: @writerswriting .
This year it will be Markus Zusak's The Book Thief
I'll also be posting my thoughts on YA literature, the experience of reading in the digital age & thoughts from the Teaching Reading in Secondary ELA class I'm teaching this year. You can find out more about our project at: #teachread.
For more from this Part-Time Harlemite, you can find me at: developingwriters.org and on Twitter: @writerswriting .
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