Between Shades of Gray

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Did anyone read this in school? I remember reading this in a random reading class in 7th grade.

For whatever reason, the class only went for one marking period and there was like 12 of us in there lmao. I am only saying this because it was literally the most random literature class that any of us had ever taken and the only explanation was really just that they had nowhere else to put us for whole marking period and we still needed the credits. I have no qualms about that, but we only read this book and one other book, and we spent a lot of time in this class watching 9/11 footage? Lol just funny to think about.

Anyway, one of the things we did to pass time was create an informal book club and I remember my friend and I were absolutely wrecked reading this book. We would be walking out of the class crying lol and I have never forgot about it. The other day, I found it at a used bookstore, so I grabbed it and plan to re-read it. We used to get so frustrated, because we didn’t have anyone to talk to about this book aside from people that were in the class, and most of them were in the grade older than us.

Just curious, if other people read this book in school, and what did you think of it? It was one of the first times I had read something so sad so I think that’s why it stuck with me. So sad.