Well done to Linsey and Graham for getting their first blogs posted. Graham, your book sounded pretty gripping.
Like Linsey, I read The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and I too found that once I got started, I had to keep on reading it. The book is set in Auschwitz, during the Second World War and manages to deal with sad and shocking happenings with gentle humour. The story focuses on the relationship between the two boys who, in more ways than one, are from very different sides of the fence.
The end is startling and kept me thinking long after I had finished reading.
Hopefully we can get a couple of copies in the Adult Learning Centre collection soon.
Six Book Challenge
26 ABE students have completed the Six Book Challenge for 2009. For the bloggers who took the challenge last year, this meant thinking how they could make the task more challenging. This may have been about reading longer, more complex books or about thinking more critically about the books when writing their reviews.
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