We were thrilled with the number and caliber of responses to this month's Convince Us about junior high. It was a hard choice, part of us wanted to revisit the sorrowful Where the Red Fern Grows. We also wanted to go back to the banned-at-our-high-school-so-we-actually-read-it The Outsiders, but in the end, we turned to Mr. Orwell. We were supposed to read Animal Farm in seventh grade, but we had a soccer game that weekend and... more ›