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Originally Posted by emellaich
The books my kids have been assigned haven't been the typical "classics". These days they seem to run to recent releases.
However, to make the list it seems the book must be full if social messages and be depressing. Let's try to guess, the perfect formula for a book list book:
An orphaned minority, handicapped child is reunited with his abusive grandpa who is dying of cancer. He tries to escape at school, but he is bullied there and is assigned an overwhelming class project by a mean teacher. But by the end of the book, the teacher turns out to be pretty cool after all. Maybe we can also fit a lost, blind kitten in there, but my experience is that most of these orphans don't have pets for support. However, there is usually one good buddy/friend that they share all of their misfortunes with. Of course, the friend is often sick or caught and punished.
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This. Why couldn't we ever read anything fun? I appreciate a good depressing book, really... but humor can have some great messages too.