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*Note for myself* Short Excerpt for student analysis: "I didn't expect to learn anything new by going off and standing on my mother's grave that morning...." (Roth 20-21).

*Excerpt will be read after students finish The Crossover*

#1 of the books I will be suggesting to my 7th/8th graders for their independent reading challenge 2025- 2026. Let's see!

I only know Gary Soto for his short story "The Jacket" which showcases the impact of economic disparities through an ugly jacket he must accept.

1984 > Fahrenheit 451

I don't know who this "Piggy" character is, but I'm excited to finally learn!

"You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back."

"'To find out, to find out, you keep saying, as though we were accomplices in a crime. We have not committed any crime'" - Giovanni to David

"Some towns reek of misfortune. You recognize them with a quick taste of their stale air, which is thin and worn out like all things old."

"My mother , who spent her childhood here in this town, as well as the best years of her life, and yet was unable to return here to die. So she had me come in her place. It's strange, Dorotea, how I never even got to see the sky. At least that, perhaps, hasn't changed from the way she knew it."- Juan Preciado