Reading with Patrick : A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship

from alliepascal

A wonderfully written and emotionally engaging memoir. One of the better ones I've read, honestly, and that's including those written by authors/actors/etc I already cared about. It reads like it was written by someone who's been writing books for years; it's wonderful and immersive, and it stren...

from jnwelch

This was a better ER book than I skeptically first expected (I thought I'd requested a different book about teaching). This is Michelle Kuo's memoir about teaching difficult black students (ones kicked out of the other schools) in small Helena, Arkansas, and particularly her personal tutoring of ...

from KimKimpton

I received an ARC as part of the early reviewers program. It took me a little while to get into this book; I found the beginning to be somewhat disjointed. The memoir is about a Teach for America volunteer who goes to a poor, rural area in Arkansas to teach 8th grade. She leaves to attend law sch...

from eduscapes

READING WITH PATRICK by Michelle Kuo tells the true story of a teacher and her gifted student. What makes this memoir compelling is the complex relationship between Kuo and her troubled, but brilliant student. ARC courtesy of the publisher and LibraryThing.

from tara35

Reading with Patrick is a memoir that covers a lot of territory. Michelle Kuo spends time in Arkansas with Teach for America teaching English. She leaves, reluctantly, becomes a lawyer, then returns to Arkansas upon learning one of her favorite students, Patrick, is in jail for murder. What went ...