Although we were reading the City of Ember series in my classroom during read aloud, we came to the general consensus to stop reading the third novel, the Prophet of Yonwood. This book was much more biblically involved than I imagined it would be. So instead of finishing that novel, we moved onto Miss Spitfire, a historical fiction story of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan. It was very insightful and interesting to hear the tale from the teacher's point of view, who struggles throughout the novel to teach the blind, deaf, and dumb girl the relationship between letters, words, and objects. Annie herself is actually visually challenged, and the reader gets the background story of the hard upbringing of the teacher in addition to Helen's battles. At times there is much humor caused by tantrums of Helen, and other times you feel the frustration along with Annie. Although the level was at the upper fifth grade level, some of the vocabulary I found challenging.
"Words bridge the gaps between two minds. Words are a miracle,"
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