assigned reading

My delight that Fair Coinhas been selected as a book for classroom discussion at a Bronx middle school is moderated by sheer horror–one of the things I learned in school is that nothing takes the joy out of a book and reading more than it being assigned as homework. Still, I am honored and intrigued; from what I can tell, what recommends Fair Coinmost at the moment is that none of the class has read it yet, and probably hadn’t even heard of it before this.

I don’t know about how wellFair Coinw...