The Hero Next Door: by William Alexander, Joseph Bruchac, Lamar Giles, Mike Jung, Hena Khan, Juana Medina, Ellen Oh, R.J. Palacio, Linda Sue Park, Anna Dobbin, Cynthia Leitich

my daughter likes it

The first collection was awesome. This one is just ok. Not bad but not excellent either. One made me cry while my son and I were reading it together - so I gave the book four stars instead of three.

Excellent book with meaningful stories. My 11 yo wasn’t really into it (he prefers non fiction) but this worked because each story is short. The story The Assist was on point to a middle schoolers life and we used the essay writing technique described in the story.

Great for the middle school classroom.

Thoroughly enjoyed this book.