At some point in the year, my students always whined, "Ms. L, why is everything we read so SAD?" Well, aside from the fact that I'm just one of those strange people who enjoys sad stories (they're so POWERFUL and they make me think about what it means to be human), here's an article from the New York Times Sunday Book Review that looks at happy books and sad books...
I don't think that all the books in the library are sad, but mabye I am just reading different books than other people.
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