La Review Of Books

The Real WORD Podcast, produced by Reading Opens Minds. This season on The Real WORD we read and discussed the following books: Me Before You by JoJo Moyes, Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith - aka J.K. Rowling, The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, Tattooed Soldier by Hector Tobar, Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng and Pleasantville by Attica Locke. From these books, we’ve considered questions about parental expectations and the sheltering and protection of family, the amount of power we have as individuals in shaping our lives, aspirations for the future, and how we deal with the inconsistencies of our world and how we can survive change. I spoke with one of our program alumni, Jackie Amezcua, who’s on a Posse Scholarship (full tuition for all 4 years) at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. I asked her about how joining book club in her sophomore year of high school is helping her now. We’ve seen our students take advantage of our programming because they are hungry for knowledge