Window & Mirror

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There are two types of books, window books and mirror books. Window books are books that you don’t relate to, so you’re looking at them from a window. An example of a window book could be a fantasy book with dragons and fairies. Mirror books have a character or setting that you can relate to. For example, if you were a doctor, a book about a doctor might be a mirror book. The reason I say “might” is because some books that have characters like you are still windows because they are having a completely different experience.

I am currently reading The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. It is about a boy in middle school in the year 1967 during the Vietnam War named Holling. He thinks his teacher, Mrs. Baker, hates him, but her family’s company is associated with his family’s company, so he has to act like he is good friends with his teacher. Meanwhile, President Lyndon B. Johnson is stepping down, and Martin Luther King Jr. was just assassinated.

This book is a window because even though there is a middle school boy as a main character, I don’t live in a time of war, so it is still a window.