Good Reads are Good Deeds

Having school back on your daily to-do-list isn't exactly a very enthusiastic task for parents or children, especially when it comes to homework!

Your kids don't like it and neither do you. And that's pretty much the only thing about school that you guys have in common.

But there is a solution to this mutual disagreement. And that is reading!

Usually after the holidays, kids aren't really in the spirit to get going with their homework. They procrastinate, and procrastinate and procrastinate until their homework isn't done!

And, if you as a parent don't pull a halt to the procrastination, it's never going to end.

The easiest way to get your kids back into the school spirit and actually doing their homework is by encouraging them to read. Reading opens up their minds and therefore directs them back into the study spirit.

Here are our top 3 Reading Recommendations for kids aged 12-17: 

 

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

This richly textured novel, woven from the strands of small-town life, lets readers walk in the shoes of one fully realized character after another. To Kill a Mockingbird examines racism through the eyes of children Jem and Scout Finch during the Great Depression-era in Alabama, when a black man goes on trial for the rape of a white woman. There's some intense material in this Pulitzer Prize winner, first published in 1960, but this is a true American classic and one of our most eloquent appeals for tolerance and justice. The author accurately portrays both sides of this divided Southern society, and readers may be inspired to read more about the history of the time. 


 
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank








In this reality diary turned novel written by 16 year old Anne Frank herself, the Franks, along with another family, the Van Daans, hide in order to avoid capture during the German occupation of Holland. Aided by friends on the outside, Anne and the others spend two years in the "secret annex": several rooms enclosed in the warehouse of Anne's father's business while war rages outside. ANNE FRANK: THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL is at once instructive, inspiring, and immensely engaging. Readers of any age will feel moved by Anne's great fears and everyday problems. Teens and pre-teens will identify strongly with her struggles to be understood, or to be left alone, and will thrill with her as young love unfolds. 
 


The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

 



















The Hunger Games is a story about a reality show where 24 teens must kill one another until only one survives. They do so with spears, rocks, arrows, knives, fire, and by hand. The author makes it both moving and thought-provoking. This will be a terrific discussion starter for middle-school literature groups, in which students will quickly make fruitful connections to our own society.


So there you have it! Our top 3 recommendations for your teens that will get the thinking, keep them entertained and learning all at once.


A good read is always a good deed if the recommender aims at inspiring the reader to be enthusiastic about education!


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