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Why do we read?” That was the journal prompt given one day to seniors at the International High School at Prospect Heights, a Brooklyn public school that teaches English to newly arrived immigrants and refugees from around the world. I spent a year at the school reporting my first book, The New Kids. During that time I heard many, many journal prompts, but this one made a lasting impression, in part because of one student’s answer. “We read to survive in the world,” wrote Hasanatu, who had grown up in Sierra Leone during the war, “because when we know how to read, we can have job.

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It’s so hard reading a book AND being addicted to tumblr at the same time.

God never disqualifies us. He never says, “Go sit on the sidelines. You have blown it too many times. You have too many weaknesses.” Instead, God always gives us another chance.

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