Challenge Day #17
Nancy Drew When I was young I did the same book report for two years in a row Louisa May Alcott by Catherine O. Peare. I had to look it up in the Library of Congress to try and find it – it was published in 1954, the year before I was born. I picked it because it was the smallest book in my elementary school library that my fourth and fifth grade teacher would approve as difficult enough. As a kid I hated reading. Looking back as an adult I think it had something to do with reading wasn’t easy for me. Neither was spelling. Not an unusually combination. I didn’t learn phonics until I was an education major in college. I was brought up in the site word era of Dick and Jane. At home I was surrounded by books and readers. My parents and my brother were always reading something. My dad was an avid Tom Clancy fan and my brother read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy long before they were the thing to read. Even in elementary school he belonged to a book club for th