Reading with Patrick : a teacher, a student and the life-changing power of books
Kuo, Michelle2018
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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. 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. Two years later, Michelle left to go to law school; but Patrick began to lose his way, ending up jailed for murder. And that's when Michelle decided that her work was not done, and began to visit Patrick once a week, and soon every day, to read with him again...
Main title:
Author:
Kuo, Michelle, author
Imprint:
Leicester : Charnwood, 2018.
Collation:
384 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Standard print edition originally published: London: Macmillan, 2017.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781444837087 (hbk)
Dewey class:
371.826927092371.8269
LC class:
HV8883
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
322947