"So, what are you reading?" I asked and sat down next to one of the boys in my class as he worked today.
He shifted a little uncomfortably. "It's on my iPad," he told me.
"Okay," I said, "do you have it here?"
He punched in the security code, launched the iBook app, and handed his device to me.
"At Any Price," I read from the title page. "I've never heard of it. What's it about?"
"It's a grown up book," he said, "I just started it, but it's really good."
"Hmmm," I frowned and swiped the screen to reach the first pages. "Do your parents know you're reading this?"
"Oh yeah," he shrugged. "They know."
"So what's the conflict?" I asked him, since that was the assignment we were working on.
"Um," he hesitated as my eyes scanned the display.
Artemis, Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia? What's up with all the Greeks? I wondered and then my eye fell on the final line of the prologue:
The right to my virginity will be ceded to the highest buyer.
I raised an eyebrow and looked sternly at the student.
"I might change it," he said.
He shifted a little uncomfortably. "It's on my iPad," he told me.
"Okay," I said, "do you have it here?"
He punched in the security code, launched the iBook app, and handed his device to me.
"At Any Price," I read from the title page. "I've never heard of it. What's it about?"
"It's a grown up book," he said, "I just started it, but it's really good."
"Hmmm," I frowned and swiped the screen to reach the first pages. "Do your parents know you're reading this?"
"Oh yeah," he shrugged. "They know."
"So what's the conflict?" I asked him, since that was the assignment we were working on.
"Um," he hesitated as my eyes scanned the display.
Artemis, Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia? What's up with all the Greeks? I wondered and then my eye fell on the final line of the prologue:
The right to my virginity will be ceded to the highest buyer.
I raised an eyebrow and looked sternly at the student.
"I might change it," he said.
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