Student to Student: Shrinking the World, Expanding the Mind

Even as our students’ awareness of the larger world expands, access to information and people from other cultures shrinks that world, too, making it possible to identify with those whose lives differ greatly from our own. As these students know, however, a good book is a good book, and even the students who contributed to this column from overseas have a great feel for which books will appeal to readers across the globe.