A review by mastercabs
All the Right Stuff by Walter Dean Myers
3.0
I taught this book, and I suspect that it WDM wrote it with the intention of it being taught to late middle/early high school students. It is as easy a read as it can be with Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Rawls being bandied about by the main characters. If I teach this book again, I will teach it as an introduction to our civics unit for ELA I. I don't think it worked as a hook book for getting my students into reading. A few have really cleaved to the ideas put forward and the way that they are being put forward, but I think overall this lacks the teeth that it needs to really engage kids.
Yes, many of my students really related to Paul's relationship with his father (or lack thereof) and his desire to understand the world around him. However, there isn't as much immediacy in his story as there is in, say, Keisha's. Walter Dean Myers wrote so much that kids can really latch onto - this isn't bad, but there are better offerings covering similar territory.
Yes, many of my students really related to Paul's relationship with his father (or lack thereof) and his desire to understand the world around him. However, there isn't as much immediacy in his story as there is in, say, Keisha's. Walter Dean Myers wrote so much that kids can really latch onto - this isn't bad, but there are better offerings covering similar territory.