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"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." – Harper Lee
Reading becomes part of who we are. Essential. Natural.
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"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." – Harper Lee
Reading becomes part of who we are. Essential. Natural.
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #BooksandComics #Books #ToKillAMockingbird #Drama In 2026, This American Book Classic Is Just Not Worth Reading http://dlvr.it/TTYZ5s
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #BooksandComics #Books #ToKillaMockingbird #1984 10 Greatest Banned Books of All Time http://dlvr.it/TTRtFV
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #TheGreatGatsby #ToKillAMockingbird 10 Books That Might Be the Great American Novel http://dlvr.it/TTCxqK
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #Dune #ToKillAMockingbird #InColdBlood 10 Best Books of the 1960s http://dlvr.it/TT70Bv
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Empathy Through Stories: Books & Films
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” — Mary Schmich
Five Books
Mom says I can bring home five.
Five books.
As if five were enough.
I wander the aisles
passing sharks,
dinosaurs,
Greek gods,
and a glossy guide to Spain
where every photograph
looks warmer than Utah.
A Brady Bunch mystery
finds its way into my arms.
Jan Brady,
private eye.
I grab a book about castles,
another about volcanoes,
and one filled with maps
that unfold into places
I cannot pronounce.
Soon I am carrying eleven.
Thirteen.
Fourteen.
The problem is not
what to take home.
The problem is leaving behind
the pyramids,
the Amazon,
a boy crossing the prairie,
a girl hiding in an attic,
a submarine descending
into impossible darkness.
Mom says five.
So I stand there
holding South America,
the Ming Dynasty,
Walt Disney,
the Time Machine,
and Jan Brady
trying to decide
which five worlds
I get
to carry home
this week.Two Books
Two books changed how I see the world: To Kill a Mockingbird and Long Way Down.
My first reading of To Kill a Mockingbird was my first real encounter with injustice. I was learning at the same time Scout was. Like her, I believed adults would do the right thing, that courts would seek the truth, and that innocence mattered. As Scout’s understanding of the world changed, so did mine.
Years later, Long Way Down felt like a companion piece. If Mockingbird taught me that injustice exists, Long Way Down taught me how its effects linger across generations. Jason Reynolds places readers inside a young man’s grief, fear, and anger, asking us not merely to observe but to understand.
Together, these books taught me that empathy is more than feeling sorry for someone. It is recognizing that every person is carrying a story we may not fully see. They changed how I view students, strangers, and even myself.
Two Movies
Two films deserve honorable mention.
To Kill a Mockingbird remains one of the rare occasions where I will argue that the movie is just as good as the book. Gregory Peck’s Atticus Finch is so convincing that it is difficult for me to imagine the character any other way. As a teacher, I have also witnessed something remarkable: it is one of the few films that can bring a room full of high school freshmen boys to tears.
Time After Time took me in a different direction. Rather than adapting The Time Machine, it transforms H. G. Wells into the protagonist of his own adventure. I loved the premise, and it eventually led me back to the novel itself.
Books and movies often compete for our attention, but sometimes they work together. One deepened my appreciation for a story I already knew. The other introduced me to a classic that was waiting on a library shelf.
Daily writing prompt What’s a piece of media (book, movie, song) that changed how you see the world? View all responses #dailyprompt #dailyprompt2804 #library #LongWayDown #movies #TheBradyBunch #TheTimeMachine #TimeAfterTime #ToKillAMockingbird -
My current #BookAtBedtime is #ToKillAMockingbird by #HarperLee. It’s a #Book that I first read at secondary school for English Literature class and I’m really enjoying reading it again. I like the clear writing and linear structure of the narrative.
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Re-reading To Kill a Mockingbird and finishing it in one sitting—again.
It remains one of the most challenged books in the U.S., largely due to its portrayal of race and injustice.
That discomfort is precisely the point.
Literature that endures tends to ask questions people would rather avoid.
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Robert Duvall Remembered by Mary Badham, ‘Scout’ to His ‘Boo’ in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ (Exclusive)
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We asked people to share books that changed their life. Here are 12 top reads.
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/12-life-changing-books-according-to-readers-ex1
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Currently reading: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Although I’ve seen the movie more recently, I haven’t read the book since high school so I am looking forward to revisiting it from a 2025 perspective. #bookstodon #StoryGraph #ToKillAMockingbird #HarperLee #currentlyreading #ReadBannedBooks
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Gregory Peck: "Rapul Walsh was a very colorful, profane, outspoken character from an earlier time"
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23 books that shaped you in high school – NPR
What books shaped you in high school? Here’s what you said
August 28, 20255:00 AM ET, By Beth Novey, Meghan Collins Sullivan, and Andrew Limbong
Maansi Srivastava/NPRThis summer, we asked you to tell us about the books you read in high school that profoundly affected you. It turns out you had a lot to share. More than 1,100 of you wrote back to tell us about the formative texts you were assigned as teens.
You told us about books that broadened your perspectives and stuck with you as you got older. These dog-eared volumes got packed and unpacked every time you moved homes. They led you to become English majors, librarians, writers, teachers and editors. They inspired tattoos, pet names and baby names. Many of you shouted out the English teachers who, decades ago, pressed these texts into your hands, your heads and your hearts.
We’re sharing your thoughts here. This list reflects a time when fewer female authors and writers of color were being published and assigned in high schools — and many of you expressed hope that today’s syllabuses are more varied and diverse.
So, at the start of a new school year, with gratitude to English teachers past, present and future, here’s what you told us about the books that shaped you.
Readers’ responses have been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Two books came up far more often than any of the others:
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Reading about racism from the perspective of a child — 6-year-old narrator Scout Finch in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel — was an eye-opening experience for many who responded. Steve Kennebeck, 65, of Ranchos de Taos, N.M., was in seventh grade when his family moved from San Diego to Memphis, Tenn. “Not long after I arrived, my English teacher, sensing I was having difficulty adjusting, asked how I was doing. … I told her I didn’t like the humidity and that I didn’t understand why all the Black kids seemed so angry. She reached for the bookshelf and handed me a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird and said: ‘Read this — it will help you understand.'” Christopher Anderson, 60, of Gloucester, Mass., felt such a connection to Scout’s lawyer father that he named his first child Atticus. Nathaniel Hardman, 41, of Midvale, Utah, acknowledges: “I know some object to the ‘white savior’ narrative. That’s fine. Let that be part of the discussion.”Signet Classics
1984 by George Orwell
Whitney Todaro, 44, of Louisville, Colo., remembers being so upset by the ending of 1984 that she threw the book across the room. Many of you told us that George Orwell’s dystopian novel encouraged you to think critically, question authority and be wary of state surveillance. There was a strong consensus that high schoolers should still be reading the book today. “More important than ever — but retitle it to 2025,” writes Thom Haynes, 65, of Apex, N.C. Rayson Lorrey, 73, of Rochester, Minn., says, “Teens live in a world partly Orwellian — fish need to understand all they can about water.Continue/Read Original Article Here: 23 books that shaped you in high school : NPR
#1984 #2025 #America #Books #BooksReadInHighSchool #Education #HighSchool #History #Libraries #Library #NationalPublicRadio #NPR #Opinion #Reading #ToKillAMockingbird #UnitedStates
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The fate of To Kill a Mockingbird play is determined, Sandals Resorts win a major copyright decision, and Senators repropose AI transparency act.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/07/30/3-count-sandals-off/
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#ScribesAndMakers 25 July 2025
Create a multiple choices poll listing 3 books you personally consider “classics” and ask others to choose the ones they have read. Create a fourth option for None of the Above.#BramStoker #StephenKing #HarperLee #Carrie #Dracula #ToKillAMockingbird #reading #Lesen #bookstodon
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Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird Sale: $14.99 to $0.99 by Mary McDonagh Murphy Rating: 4.3/5 (96 Reviews) #ToKillAMockingbird #HarperLee #Book #Recommendation #Literature #USA #BookSale #BookSky
Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Cel... -
These lines are very relevant to the times we live in now, more than ever.
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Scott's review of To Kill a Mockingbird (To Kill a Mockingbird, #1) - BookWyrm
This is a book dripping in US-southern aspects. But also paints a much more complex picture of this region. One that is not of a monolith of attitudes. It still has the bad behaviors the region is known for. But shows them to be bad behaviors that one can be guilty of anywhere. It also shows those that dont engage in said behaviors. And...
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Author Harper Lee became a household name after “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published in 1960. But, as many writers have experienced, Lee’s rise to fame was impeded by rejections from literary journals and magazines. Lee kept those early attempts at fiction, and following her death in 2016, her executor discovered the writings in her apartment. Now, eight never-before-seen short stories will be published this year. Read more from @Smithsonianmag:
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“Shoot all the bluejays you want, but remember, it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” — To Kill a Mockingbird #HarperLee #ToKillAMockingbird #Literature