Ideas to Inspire

Reluctant readers may not have the stamina to get through difficult or dry text, but if books can hook them in the first page, they are more likely to finish the book. Some good ones:

Quad, by C.G. Watson is the adrenaline filled story of a school shooting.

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hairm watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. . . In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge.

Essential Gear: It isn’t that easy these days to get hold of an old tobacco tin — but they are just the right size for this sort of collection. One of the authors once took a white mouse into school, though, considering what happened when he sat on it, that is not to be recommended. We think pockets are for cramming full of useful things.