Read more Darcy Frey, author of The Last Shot Riveting. Reading with Patrick is a significant work that could swell the ranks of highly motivated and qualified teachers-people who understand they are not just transferring information but transforming livesīill Moyers A gorgeous, urgent and heartbreaking memoir. I delighted in this book and read it in a single weekend. Reading with Patrick is an inspirational story of friendship, a coming-of-age story for both a young teacher and a student, an expansive, deeply resonant meditation on education, race and justice, and a love letter to literature and its power to transcend social barriers. Read more decided that her work was not done, and began to visit Patrick once a week, and soon every day, to read with him again. Two years later, Michelle left to go to law school but Patrick began to lose his way, ending up jailed for murder. For the first time, these kids began to engage with ideas and dreams beyond their small town, and to gain an insight into themselves that they had never had before. As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African-American teenager named Patrick and his classmates. Reading With Patrick is the true story of a teacher, a boy who lost his way and the redemptive power of books Num Pages: 320 pages. Description for Reading with Patrick Hardcover.
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