Staring at People While they Read is OK

Russell, Rachel, and Rachael welcome our first guest from beyond the library walls, Michelle Larking, IB Literature teacher at Galileo Magnet High School. We discuss how to foster a love of reading through education and whether Russell should have been in the Zebra reading group.

Books we discuss include:

• “Babar” series by Jean de Brunhoff
• “Frog and Toad” series by Arnold Lobel
• “The Boxcar Children” series by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• “A Patchwork Planet”, “Digging to America” and others by Anne Tyler
• “Under the Bayou Moon” by Valerie Fraser Luesse
• “The Sound of Waves” by Yukio Mishima
• “Convenience Store Woman” by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
• “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green
• “Kitchen” by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Megan Backus 
• “Little Bee” by Chris Cleave
• “The Poet X” by Elizabeth Acevedo
• “Crank” by Ellen Hopkins
• “Agnes Grey” by Ann Bronte
• “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
• “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte
• “Tuck Everlasting” by Natalie Babbitt
• “Bridge to Terabithia” by Katherine Paterson
• “The Witches” by Roald Dahl
• “Sounder” by William H. Armstrong
• “Educated” by Tara Westover
• “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah
• “Devotions” by Mary Oliver
• “Christy” by Catherine Marshall