Some badass reddit wizards imbued me with some badass books for my Spanish classroom library. Speaking Spanish is my main goal for students in these high school classes. My number two main goal for students is that they read an entire novel in Spanish, which none of them have ever done before. Getting through your first book is an incredible milestone in the language learning journey, it's a struggle, it's uncomfortable, and it pays off ten fold with both confidence and gleaning great vocabulary and grammar through the process. I encourage kids to go to the public library and request books there to get used to that system, but by having a class set of books to help spur this on, especially titles that are perfectly suited for these kids like "Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal", "Rebelion en la granja", "Matar un ruisenor", "Bajo la misma estrella", and "Crepusculo" ("Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone", "Animal Farm", "To kill a mockingbird", "The fault of our starts", and "Twilight" [Twilight might not be my personal cup of tea, but if that's what grabs a high schooler's attention then I couldn't be more stoked as the teacher]), then these books serve as a launching block for a lifelong love of language and reading. Thank you from me. And thank you from my students. One student studying in front of me right now says, "I'm looking forward to reading more books after I finish the one that I'm reading". Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.