April 18 - Emerging Scholars

I would choose The Breadwinner as your book to teach in the summer program. I really enjoyed this book, and I think that it has good relevance in this day and age when Americans have a real interest/media interaction with the Middle East. I think that teaching this book would help to inform students about some Middle Eastern culture, as well as to show them a strong and determined young protagonist in Parvana. The Breadwinner would be appropriate because it generally deals with a culture and situation that is unfamiliar to American students, and so you wouldn't be singling out any particular race (as in African Americans by teaching Copper Sun, or Mexican Americans by teaching Esperanza Rising).