I’m thrilled that CAM POST got a mention in an excellent...

I’m thrilled that CAM POST got a mention in an excellent essay over at The Millions—“Not Ready to Gush About It: A Brief Book List for Teen Readers.” The piece is by Carolyn Ross, a high school English teacher in New Jersey, and it’s about teens reading over the summer and the level of coolness of that act (or at least talking about that act). More specifically it’s about the the perceived lack “coolness” of that act. (Which was always all the more reason for this teen to read over the summers.)

From the essay:

“I’m not reading during the summer,” they proclaim.

This is a very curious thing for them to say, because these kids may have entered my classroom in September as non-readers, but by this point in June every last one of them has loved a book.  These kids who scoff at my mere mention of summer reading have caught me before class to report proudly that they have already read thirteen books this year, or to tell me that they already finished the book I loaned them four days ago, and they need a new one.  Each and every student, at one point or another in the year, has neglected to hear me announce the conclusion of independent reading for the day, so engrossed in a world of zombies, or first love, or football, that our existence in the classroom has become secondary.

click-the-image for the full essay, you’ll be happy you did