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All American Boys Research Paper

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Would you rather read fiction or nonfiction books? In some countries they are starting to take fiction books out of schools. The book I am reading is “ All American boys” by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiley. This book is about a young teenage African American boy getting physically assaulted by a white police officer. All American boys is a fiction book, however it has many life lesson and real life events that we may not always be aware of. Despite the school board’s recent segment regarding the lack of fuel that fiction provides, fiction should remain in the school’s curriculum. I make this statement due to the fact that fiction books teach people life lessons. Secondly, some people dislike reading books that aren't fiction because people do not get the opportunity to use their imagination …show more content…

School districts feel they need to take out fiction books because they feel the non fictions books have more benefits than fiction books. Some believe that non fiction book are more accurate than fiction books because they focus on real life events. They think that if they take out fiction books everyone will read non-fiction books and people will understand and learn what life is really like. I have found an article, and in this article it talks about how a school district took out some fiction books from the school. The students were affected because if they start taking fiction books now, then what will the students generations from now read? Now it's not only affecting us, it's affecting other generations after us.I think we should have a say in what we read and what we don't. If school districts make us read only non fiction books ,then most of the students in the schools won't be as interested to read because the books may not be ast interesting. Schools districts across America are removing a fundamental part of educational

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