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\"Tyler's brain is different. Unlike his friends, he has a hard time paying attention in class. He acts out in goofy, over-the-top ways. Sometimes, he even does dangerous things--like cut up a bus seat with a pocketknife or hang out of an attic window. To the adults in his life, Tyler seems like a troublemaker. But he knows that he's not. Tyler is curious and creative. He's the best artist in his grade, and when he can focus, he gets great grades. He doesn't want to cause trouble, but sometimes he just feels like he can't control himself.\"-- Publisher's webpage.
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Disabling Assumptions
The relatively new, interdisciplinary field of disability studies challenges society to think about disability in an unconventional way. While critical questioning is important, this column will not focus on critique. Instead, it can showcase how teachers are using more recent texts that depict characters in a more sophisticated way. This column is also an invitation to explore how English language arts classes are using innovative contributions made by people with disabilities: fiction, poetry, dance, stand-up comedy, videos, artistic productions, young adult novels, memoirs, autobiographies, blogs, essays, op/ed columns, and a variety of other nonfiction genres. Finally, this column is also an invitation for teachers to recount classroom-based narratives about how their own disabilities or those of their students contributed to new ways of learning, new insights about knowledge, new genres, new technologies used in innovative ways, and new ways of accessing or producing materials in different media.
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YA Nonfiction Takes Teen Readers Seriously
To satisfy young readers’ curiosity, Olmanson is rolling out 16–20 titles each year, half of which are geared toward school and library markets, while the other half are direct-to-consumer titles published by Lerner’s Zest imprint. At Orca Book Publishers, editor Kirstie Hudson is publishing The Disability Experience: Working Toward Inclusion (Apr. 2021), a collection of profiles of disability rights activists by Hannalora Leavitt, an author with visual impairment. With teenagers eager to express their own individuality, Hudson says the message of the book, which is to see people with disabilities as individuals, exemplifies the kind of appeal that social issues can have for readers. The book represents a shift in editorial process for Magination, with the author writing the hero-focused story first and the editorial team embedding psychology information into the text afterward.
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The intestines of the state
The young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a long history of violence and political marginalization. For centuries the main victims of the slave trade, they became prime targets for forced labor campaigns under a series of colonial rulers. Today’s youth remain at the bottom of the fiercely hierarchical and polarized societies of the Grassfields, and it is their response to centuries of exploitation that Nicolas Argenti takes up in this absorbing and original book. Beginning his study with a political analysis of youth in the Grassfields from the eighteenth century to the present, Argenti pays special attention to the repeated violent revolts staged by young victims of political oppression. He then combines this history with extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Oku chiefdom, discovering that the specter of past violence lives on in the masked dance performances that have earned intense devotion from today’s youth. Argenti contends that by evoking the imagery of past cataclysmic events, these masquerades allow young Oku men and women to address the inequities they face in their relations with elders and state authorities today.
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NWHN's summer reading recommendations
[...] for the most part, Fight Like a Girl is a how-to manual offering tips for how to challenge unfair practices, organize an event, start an organization, write a press release, and so much more. The book is informed by seely's own experiences as a feminist activist, which include supporting the farmer workers' organizing efforts at age 14, working with women at a feminist health clinic, and being the youngest woman ever elected president of California NOW Ftcht Like a Girl is a great present for a young woman, but deserves to be read widely by women of all ages.
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Behind the scenes for YALSA: the Schneider family book award committee
Winning authors receive an award in the form of a $5,000 check and a framed plaque emblazoned with a silver and blue emblem featuring a circle of boys and girls holding hands around a globe, which symbolizes equality of all children. Since the inception of the award in 2003, winning titles have included characters who deal with depression, blindness, cerebral palsy, paraplegia, deafness, synesthesia, dyscalculia, physical disabilities, and stuttering.
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Middle To High School
Cutright's text is accessible, making this title both an appealing entry point for adolescent students researching Native women activists and a productive teaching tool for upper elementary and middle school. Throughout, readers will find stories from teens and their parents reflecting on sleep deprivation. VERDICT Recommended for any young adult conducting research on the topic of sleep deprivation or simply curious about how to get a better night's sleep.—Ragan O'Malley, Saint Ann's Sch., Brooklyn LEAVITT, Hannalora. Gr 5–8—This collection spotlights a variety of activists from around the world, including high-profile figures such as Greta Thunberg and lesser-known individuals such as Pushpa Basnet, a Nepali social worker who advocates and cares for the children of imprisoned women in Nepal.
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