[aisle] Teacher Question about the Alchemist

[Monica Caldicott]

*The Alchemist* by Coehlo is often taught at the high school level. It was
a summer reading book for incoming sophomores for many years in my school
district, and my own children read it as incoming freshmen in their school
district.
It is a fable.

📚 Currently reading The Silent Patient
<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40097951-the-silent-patient> by Alex
Michaelides
🐦 Also reading* Where Have All the Birds Gone?
<https://search.follettsoftware.com/metasearch/rest/v2/go/5999/details/107388>
*by Rebecca E. Hirsch
🔥 And savoring* Ain't Burned All the Bright
<https://search.follettsoftware.com/metasearch/rest/v2/go/5999/details/106037>
*by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin for Fr Feb 3 D128 Staff Book Club
🎧 Currently listening to *Solito
<https://search.follettsoftware.com/metasearch/rest/v2/go/5999/details/108444>
*by Javier Zamora
⭐ Member of 2024 Lincoln Award Selection Committee, helping to choose the
20 books nominated for the Illinois Teen Choice Award; here is the 2023 list
<https://www.d128.org/vhhs/students/student-services/library/2023-illinois-teen-choice-award>


On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 8:00 AM Jill Bennin via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Good morning,
> I had a teacher (junior high) level, ask if anyone had used the book The
> Alchemist by Paulo Coelho in the classroom, and how it had gone.  I thought
> I would ask all of you. Thanks for anything you have to share.
>
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> Jill Bennin
> Library Media Specialist - Sherrard CUSD #200
> email: benninj at sherrard.us
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