karen_w_newton (karen_w_newton) wrote,
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  • Mood: Encouraged

More on the next generation..

My previous post mentioned that I had explored the Scholastic site. I stumbled over this book review of Isaac Asimov's The Positronic Man. I found it encouraging that 6th graders are reading science fiction at all, and especially heartening that they're reading Asimov—and liking his work.

Way to go, Olivia F.!
Tags: reading, science fiction
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