<b>My Own Invention</b> - Building a Bridge of Books: An Inner-City/Private School Partnership.

  • Gail Goodwin

Abstract

How students from a private Christian preparatory school engaged with students at an inner-city school in the heart of a public housing project through the shared medium of books and reading.

Author Biography

Gail Goodwin
Aavid Beagley is Lecturer in Children's Literature and Literacy at La Trobe University's Bendigo campus, Victoria, Australia, where he teaches units in Genres, History, Australian and Post-colonial children's literature. He has previously taught in secondary schools, and has been a school and university librarian.
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