Reading A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah. She's been starting, but not finishing books lately, because they don't hold her interest -- Urban Shaman, by C.E. Murphy and The Memory Keeper's Daughter, by Kim Edwards.
Her favorite book -- poems by Maya Angelou, like Phenomenal Woman and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Her mom read it to her in the fifth grade and it's the first book she really remembers loving to read.
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
(from the middle of the poem)
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