The Forgotten Door

Year after year, my students and I would read this book aloud (5th, 6th, and 7th grade). At the end of each year they would vote on their favorite book of the year and The Forgotten Door won every time. We would read it at the beginning of the year as a springboard for looking at how society treats......more

I hated the cover of this book as a kid. I remember seeing it in the school library, and thinking that it was some Twilight Zone type story, and way too scary. But there was an excerpt from it in our reading textbook, and I was hooked. I think I read it twice in a row. Love this book. Such a fun and......more

Such a great book, and one that probably couldn't be written today. What's the door? How does it work? What's Jon's world called? Doesn't matter. What matters is that he's there. He's different. And the Beans want to help him get home. It reminds me of Escape to Witch Mountain, and I was thinking tha......more

Wow!!!! This is an extraordinarily valuable tableau of what is wrong with human mentality, exemplifying a much better way we should and can live. Alexander Key starts with valuing all life equally, as my heart has taught me to do. This book is far more profound than the science fiction cover indicat......more

Does anybody remember the old reading books they used to pass out in elementary school? It was a big, fat, textbook sized chunk of awesomeness that the teachers handed out every year, along with math and language books. The reading books were stuffed full of poems — mostly boring — and stories and s......more