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Elizabeth A. Balfour Book Club Books

Professional Development
 * 1) //White Teacher Talks About Race//, Julie Landsman. Like this one better than #6.
 * 2) //Letters To A Young Teacher//, Jonathan Kozol
 * 3) //Savage Inequalities,// Jonathan Kozol
 * 4) //Amazing Grace,// Jonathan Kozol
 * 5) //On Being A Teacher,// Jonathan Kozol
 * 6) //Inside Mrs. B’s Classroom//, Leslie Baldacci
 * 7) //Spiritual Midwifery,// Ina May Gaskin. Gaskin is a teacher, but not in the traditional sense.
 * 8) //Classroom Discourse Analysis,// Betsey Rhymes. Excerpts not read last summer.
 * 9) //Elements of Style,// Strunk and White.

Non-fiction


 * 1) //Why We Can’t Wait,// Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * 2) //Classic Slave Narratives,// Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
 * 3) //The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,// Rebecca Skloot
 * 4) //My Father’s Secret War//, Lucinda Franks
 * 5) //Night,// Elie Wiesel
 * 6) //I, Rigoberta Menchu,// Rigoberta Menchu
 * 7) //Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalanss,// David Stoll. (I am going to read //Rigoberta Menchu Controversy// and am looking for contemp non-fiction about the Mexican drug cartel violence, specifically related to journalists.)
 * 8) //Neither Wolf Nor Dog,// Kent Nerburn
 * 9) //Black Like Me//, John Howard Griffin. I am going to read his //Man in the Mirror.//

Fiction


 * 1) //One Thousand White Women,// Jim Fergus. I’d read it once a long time ago, but re-read and used it during book club. I also should include //Midwifery,// Chris Bohjalian. Both books were written by male authors using a female 1st person narrator in a successful, positive way.
 * 2) //A Wish After Midnight,// Zetta Elliot.
 * 3) //One Crazy Summer,// Rita Williams Garcia
 * 4) //The Color of Water,// James McBride
 * 5) //Bronxwood// and //Tyrell//, Coe Booth. I read //Kendra// last semester.
 * 6) //March,// Geraldine Brooks
 * 7) //Gossip Girl,// Cecily von Ziegesar
 * 8) //The Help,// Kathryn Stockett
 * 9) //Uncle Tom’s Cabin,// Harriet Beecher Stowe
 * 10) //Beloved,// Toni Morrison

Poetry


 * 1) //Out of the Dust.//