“I’m excited about the club because I want read English books. I do not have in my home,” one seventh grader in Prizren, Kosovo told English Language Fellow Brooke Leach Grable. Grable had a solution for him: she and primary school teacher Venera Gashi started an English Book Club at Mati Logoreci Primary School. The club has 15 members in sixth and seventh grades.

This reading club is important to the students because they have few opportunities to read in English for pleasure: most of their English reading happens from their class workbooks. Both Gashi and Leach Grable will work with the students in the club to think critically about and analyze literature in ways they haven’t been taught.