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Author Denby, David, 1943- author.

Title Lit up : one reporter, three schools, twenty-four books that can change lives / David Denby.

Publication Info. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  028 DENBY    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  028 DEN    Storage
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  028 DENBY    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  028 DEN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  028 DENBY    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  028 D41    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  028 DENBY    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  028 DEN    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  028 DENBY    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  028.1 DENBY    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xxiv, 257 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and index.
Summary "Denby sat in on a tenth-grade English class in a demanding New York public school for an entire academic year, and visited other schools. He read all the stories, poems, plays, and novels that the kids were reading, and creates an impassioned portrait of charismatic teachers at work, classroom dramas large and small, and fresh and inspiring encounters with the books themselves. Lit Up is a dramatic narrative that traces awkward and baffled beginnings but also exciting breakthroughs and the emergence of pleasure in reading. Denby reaffirms the power of great teachers and the importance and inspiration of great books."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Beacon, September : the first days of English 10G -- Beacon, October : Faulkner and Hawthorne -- Beacon, October : Sylvia Plath and confessions -- Beacon, November : nuts matter, and bolts, too -- Beacon, November : Huxley -- Beacon, December and January : Orwell -- Mamaroneck, all year : personal choice -- Beacon, January : satire -- Beacon, February : Coelho and Hesse -- Beacon, February : Vonnegut -- Beacon, March : Viktor E. Frankl -- Hillhouse : the year -- Mamaroneck, spring : tenth-grade English -- Beacon, April and May : Dostoevsky -- Beacon, May and June : Sartre and Beckett -- Appendix 1. Reading lists -- Appendix 2. Beacon students' college list.
Subject Literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States.
Teenagers -- Books and reading -- United States.
High school students -- Books and reading -- United States.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects.
High school students -- Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst00956179
Literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary) (OCoLC)fst01000042
Teenagers -- Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst01145561
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 9780805095852 (hardcover)
0805095853 (hardcover)
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