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I read this book when I was ten years old, and I remember rereading it so often. It was a birthday present from my sister-in-law. The main character is a boy called Andres, and the book narrates his experiences growing up. Friends, first love, adventures, and desire to have more freedom than his parents allow him is what this book is about. I found in this book a friend and a confidant too at an age when I felt that nobody in my family understood me; my friend Andres did.

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Cuentos de la Selva, by Horacio Quiroga. 

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Cuentos de la Selva, by Horacio Quiroga. 

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My mom did not read to me as a child. Instead, she told me stories before sleeping at night or as a bribe to drag me to bed so she could take a nap without being worried that I would do some "travesura" while she was sleeping. When I was in elementary school, I read this book after my mom told me one of its stories one day. It was "Las medias de los flamencos". I was so impressed with the story, a little funny, a little scary. This book captured my imagination and fascinated me. It depicts the brutality of the jungle and how animals and humans interact in their struggles to survive in a hostile environment. It has vivid descriptions of the jungle: its noises, smells, colors. It describes with great detail the animals' world and the human's world in parallel, but sometimes the paths meet. At times, the encounters bring solidarity, compassion, and understanding. Others bring fatality, tragedy, and confusion. Sometimes we may think that animals and humans are antagonists and want to inflict each other harm, but it is just a race for surviving. This book taught me compassion for the animals and, at a young age, encouraged me to try to step in others' shoes before judging.

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La casa de Bernarda Alba, by Federico Garcia Lorca.

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La casa de Bernarda Alba, by Federico Garcia Lorca.

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I read this book in high school, and it had a significant impact on my life because it led me to question and stand up against my family precepts and morals. The book narrates the drama of a matriarch and her daughters in Spain during the Civil War. The mother, Bernarda, embodied the doctrines of a rigid catholic rural moral who tried to keep her daughters' reputation clean and not to allow others to gossip about it. My family's precepts related very much to this as they were immigrants from Spanish rural villages who wanted to hold tight to their roots to preserve their identity. This jewel of the universal literature led me to question the validity of my family's rules in space and time where they had no sense. It led me to start developing my positions as a young woman, defy old structures, and responsibly define who I wanted to be, what to keep from my family's perspective, and what beliefs to hold on to and what to leave behind.

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La Inteligencia Emocional, by Daniel Goleman.

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La Inteligencia Emocional, by Daniel Goleman.

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When I was in college in Argentina, I read this book, doing studying teacher of the Deaf. I learned so much from this book about how our brain manages our voluntary and involuntary acts, influenced by experiences, neurobiology, and evolution. It was also mind-changing because it shows that there are multiple intelligence types despite the overrated logic intelligence. Reading this book impacted me as a student-teacher, too, because I discovered that all my students could learn and show what they knew. It was on the teacher's hands to provide them with more variated experiences that activate motivation, attention, and memory. "La Inteligencia Emocional" impacted my personal life too and the relationships with others, as I learned more about people's reactions and what influences them to react in one or another way. I enjoy reading some chapters of this book once in a while. I am always interested in learning more about neuroscience and how it can improve our lives by knowing our brain better and having more awareness of our triggers and glimmers.

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I enjoyed reading this book because besides getting to know a woman who impacted American history as the first African-American first lady, I learned more about the American culture. It was one of the first books in English that I finished, and that was because I found her message so powerful and encouraging. It spoke to me to dream big and to believe that resolution and commitment are everything a person needs to achieve what she wants. It also spoke to me as a woman from a minority group, who often feels that she does not belong here, as the book's author has experienced.

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Transformative Classroom Management, by John Shindler.

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Transformative Classroom Management, by John Shindler.

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I read this book for the course Classroom Management during the first term of the MAT. It develops the concept of how teachers applying effective classroom management practices lead to academically successful students. The biggest takeaway from this book is that it is possible to manage classroom behaviors positively through intentional strategies. The strategies this book promotes have roots in psychology and neurobiology, and I link this reading with the one I did in the past about emotional intelligence. This book helped me believe that I can manage challenging behaviors in my classroom and support my students to be successful. This book helped me define the kind of teacher I want to be and what I want for my students. One of the aspects of my identity as a teacher boosted by reading this book is the connections that I make with my students. I consider it crucial to know my students and not have a judgmental approach focusing on their strengths.