More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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In the three years I've been teaching high school English, I have found that the greatest joy for students is when they can choose and read books that follow their own interests. Free read day is the best day of the week for many of my students. They get to relax and immerse themselves in another world for forty minutes.
For me, that time is even more important because it's where they are developing their most important attribute - a lifelong love of reading.
I have been combing the dollar section of my local bookstores and roaming the area looking for used books for years. This often means that the selections aren't the newest books available and don't have as much diversity of characters or interests available. This list has been carefully curated to appeal to a wide variety of readers and to include the most exciting new titles that my teens will want to dive into.
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In the three years I've been teaching high school English, I have found that the greatest joy for students is when they can choose and read books that follow their own interests. Free read day is the best day of the week for many of my students. They get to relax and immerse themselves in another world for forty minutes.
For me, that time is even more important because it's where they are developing their most important attribute - a lifelong love of reading.
I have been combing the dollar section of my local bookstores and roaming the area looking for used books for years. This often means that the selections aren't the newest books available and don't have as much diversity of characters or interests available. This list has been carefully curated to appeal to a wide variety of readers and to include the most exciting new titles that my teens will want to dive into.