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laurieb755 's review for:
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
by Louis Sachar
Am glad I did not see the book cover represented here before finishing my copy, as it would have given me a different idea of Bradley. Instead, by not seeing this cover (the cover of my book is text-only) I was able to formulate my own idea of what Bradley might look like, and he doesn't look like this cover's Bradley.
I enjoyed this story and was rather moved by events in the second half of the book. Indeed, I was reading to myself at school this afternoon and decided to stop because I was getting choked up. This is another of the books being read by fifth graders at the school where I teach. It is the base story that all the students in one class are reading, and it is being used by the home base teacher to model reading workshop principles based upon those espoused by Teachers College in New York.
I find that even after finishing the book, Bradley is still a bit of a question mark for me. He reminds me a bit of two young men I know, both of whom have struggled with understanding social cues, one of which has Aspergers, which explains the social cue struggles. I have used these associations in thinking about Bradley, and my question mark is that I might be improperly labeling him, perhaps using a stereotype and then smirking at myself for falling prey to using a stereotype.
P.S. Added 10/23/17 - I continue to feel that Carla was treated unfairly. It seems to me that the "hearing" was one-sided and almost a stereotype in itself. Yes, this was a necessary plot device to move Bradley's story along, but mightn't there have been another possibility to achieve the same result?
I enjoyed this story and was rather moved by events in the second half of the book. Indeed, I was reading to myself at school this afternoon and decided to stop because I was getting choked up. This is another of the books being read by fifth graders at the school where I teach. It is the base story that all the students in one class are reading, and it is being used by the home base teacher to model reading workshop principles based upon those espoused by Teachers College in New York.
I find that even after finishing the book, Bradley is still a bit of a question mark for me. He reminds me a bit of two young men I know, both of whom have struggled with understanding social cues, one of which has Aspergers, which explains the social cue struggles. I have used these associations in thinking about Bradley, and my question mark is that I might be improperly labeling him, perhaps using a stereotype and then smirking at myself for falling prey to using a stereotype.
P.S. Added 10/23/17 - I continue to feel that Carla was treated unfairly. It seems to me that the "hearing" was one-sided and almost a stereotype in itself. Yes, this was a necessary plot device to move Bradley's story along, but mightn't there have been another possibility to achieve the same result?