*is jealous*

[fax_celestis]

My sister's summer reading: Ender's Game.

I had to read A Tree Grows In Brooklyn at her age.

Damnable kids and their newfangled, actually-good books. *shakes cane* GET OFF MY LAWN.

Comments

[cakoluchiam]

I learned early on that you never have to do Summer reading.

[quietprofanity]

Bah. I liked it. Also, it doesn't have OSC's ugly homophobe stank on it.

[i_calql8]

She's lucky. Spouse got the green light to teach Twilight next school year. Pity the poor children.

[baddevil]

Be sad.. the fact it is required will now make most of them hate it.

[kisekinotenshi]

Not the ones who truly enjoy reading. I always liked All Quiet on the Western Front and To Kill A Mockingbird, because they're actually good books. Most of the other "classics" we had to read weren't (including A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, yech!). I also despised Romeo and Juliet and loved Macbeth, so maybe I'm just insane. XD

Most kids hate the books you read in school because they simply hate reading. I was the one who zoomed ahead and read the whole book in the first week, then spent the rest of the two month unit being bored.

[sparkfrost]

I really liked A Tree Grows in Brooklyn... it is still one of my favorites! I actually read Ender's Game in class during the school year. Loved it, read all of the sequels and the Bean books- and then found out how horribly homophobic Orson Scott Card is and had my heart broken. :(