How one teenager put down her phone, picked up a book, and felt connected.
I was that kid in middle school who always read 15 books every summer. Now that I’m a rising high school senior, I’ve read hundreds of mysteries, thrillers, science fiction — you name it — and a ton of YA. YA by a landslide. And out of those, one title truly convinced me of reading’s magic:As soon as I finished it, I slammed the cover shut and bounded up the stairs two at a time, waving the book excitedly to catch the attention of my dad, who was doing work at his computer.
It only took that one thing — in this case, my family’s country and its culture — to connect me to the novel’s main character — even if she was a futuristic human or lived a life with no resemblance to mine. What kept me reading wasn’t the knights fighting space battles, but that one connection to my heritage.When characters reflect parts of ourselves — our backgrounds, circumstances, feelings, experiences — we feel seen.made me feel seen.
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