One Child: A teacher's struggle to save a gifted and troubled girl / Basic Needs: A year with street kids in a city school

One Child by Torey L. Hayden (publ. 1980)

Basic Needs by Julie Landsman (publ. 1993)

 

As I just added a "new" book to my collection (conversational French which belonged to my mother back when she was trying to learn - 1960s?), I knew I had to remove a book. I simply own too many things!

I know I have read both of these before, but I could not find them in either my blog or on my old Excel sheet. I kept them because they are very good and capture a time and an attitude about why I became a teacher. I care about students. I want them to succeed. These books are both inspiring and frustrating. 

But time is becoming more and more precious than money or things and so they need to go. (In a previous time, I would have re-read them and done thorough blog entries.) 

I'll probably drop them into a Little Free Library and hope a teacher gets them.