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Reading With Patrick : A Teacher, a Student and the Life-Changing Power of Books - Michelle Kuo

Reading With Patrick

A Teacher, a Student and the Life-Changing Power of Books

Author: Michelle Kuo

Read by: Michelle Kuo

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Format
Digital Audiobook

Duration
08:29.28

Published: 13th July 2017

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$19.99

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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.

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.

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