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Guest Post Written By Betsy’s Best Friendz! : A Middle School Maniffesto

When Betsy asked us to write this post we were very estatic to have this wonderful and amazing opportunity. All though we had to cancel a bundle of important events that we had our personal secretaries arrange, we cancelled due to the noteworthiness of this cause. While we were pondering what to write about, we took a stroll down memory lane. We remembered all of the dull novels that were mandatory for us to scrutinize. As middle schoolers, we sensed the library selection was less then acceptable and barely up to par, not to mention the appalling obligatory books. We undoubtably value reading classics, it’s great to read books that have the finger prints our family’s past engraved into the surface of the pages. Reading modern books is appreciable too, but why would we want to read random books that only some ignorant librarian would want to waste their time on. NO YOU DIDN’T. Oh yes we did. With all of the school work we encounter, we need utilize the precious time we have to dive into a well written book that is enthralling as well. Luckily we will be deparating from the from the uninspiring, colorless orbit of nothing… as you can see it might be relatively hard to fathom the dislike that we behold for this selection of literature. But hard to decipher or not, it’s the truth. We believe that people should not underestimate the juvenile community and value their opinions on written works. We have high expectations and they must be met by all of you middle school librarians and teachers out there. So please, value our opinion because we our the future of all literary greatness.

 

Luv,
Your Best Friendz
M&R (age 12)

 

 M&R

12 Responses

  1. this is an amazing piece of work. APPLAUSE

  2. Wow, who knew middle schoolers had such a great array of vocabulary! I am thoroughly impressed. Great work ladies. You’re hired

  3. The future is in good hands. Very cool and sensibubble.

  4. I’d so like to see their lists of most loved–and most loathed–books.

  5. Huh?

  6. The photo at the end is not very attractive.
    But good work.

  7. The photo is my favorite part. Made me smile.

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