I was reading at about age four. This was when I was in pre-pre-kindergarten. I don’t think that this was too much of a incredible feat because I’ve talked to many people who were also literate at four years old. It was typical for my family as well. My older brother and sister both read when they were four. All I read then were “See Jane run” type of books. Some of my very first reads

were Goodnight Moon and To Say I Saw It on Mulberry Street. I was delighted to be reading just as any small child who reads is. I had been used to having those books read to me, now it was I reading them. Now bear in mind I wasn’t exactly proficient at reading just yet, I still needed help with the whole reading thing. I had a hard enough time sitting still and reading a book couldn’t yet hold my attention for long.

Now, as a senior I plan to get back to that renaissance of middle school. I need to rediscover that fire in me for reading. I hope there is still something burning somewhere in me to read. Maybe I should find something as real and

Fifth grade in Mrs. Fines class we read Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. I read this book faster and more intently than any other before. I might have even read it twice. This book sparked the Tom Reading Renaissance. Something interested me very much about WWII and the Holocaust. In sixth grade while my over-intense Language Arts teacher had us reading 10th and 11th grade material, I was addicted to the real emotion and true stories of the Holocaust. I read many books on my own such as To Cross a Line and many other books of that sort that were more at my level than my teacher was assigning. While in her class, I did read one book I enjoyed. It’s name was The Glory Fields. This story of an African-American family over a century a

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