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\"A sixteen-year-old homeschooled math genius finds herself out of her element at a theater summer camp and learns that life--and love--can't be lived by the (text)book\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Eight Percent Problem: Authors of Colour in the British Young Adult Market (2006–2016)
The conversations surrounding ‘diversity’ in the Anglo-American book publishing industry have increased in recent years, and often centre around the lack of representation of publishing professionals, authors, and characters of colour. This paper contextualises these discussions within British YA, a market that has grown in popularity since 2006. Through an analysis of the corpus of all Young Adult fiction titles published, in the UK, during the 2006–2016 period, this paper will investigate what percentage of the titles were created by authors of colour; to determine whether this number has risen over the years, and to pinpoint any patterns and anomalies that emerge over the time period.
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Hell and high water
Set in the 18th-century, Caleb is the mixed race son of a poor puppeteer. When his father is wrongfully accused of theft and sentenced to transportation, Caleb is forced to seek out his estranged aunt in Devon. When a body washes up on a nearby beach, a shattered Caleb finds himself involved in a plot that places him and his newfound family in mortal danger.
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Choosing the Monsters to Slay: Speculative Young Adult Literature and Social Justice
The times, they have changed. No one can deny that the world we lived in three years ago has changed so completely that we can barely recognize schools, communities, or even family gatherings. A worldwide pandemic, heated elections, mass shootings, and civil unrest have exacerbated rifts, division, and despair. One might even describe the times as monstrous: unnatural in their assault on the beloved community. Deformed. Wicked. Cruel. In this environment, how do today's English language arts (ELA) teachers find the strength, courage, and guiding principles that assist us in navigating treacherous times? Many believe teachers can lead students to face the monsters of this time and place by journeying through the other worlds of speculative young adult (YA) fiction. Here, Amatucci and Caillouet use the word monster in the sense of a person or thing that is an underlying, threatening force, something dangerous in its deviation from acceptable norms of behavior.
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The light at the bottom of the world
Teenaged Leyla McQueen, who lives beneath the ruins of a submerged London in 2099, joins a prestigious submersible race in the hope of clearing her father's name before encountering government corruption and a hidden world.
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ANALYZING THE DIVERSITY OF A HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY COLLECTION
Recognizing diversity is important not only in American society but also in school libraries. Schools are culturally diverse places that have students and staff who represent varieties of race, culture, ability, sexual preference or identity, religion, gender, and class. School librarians serve all these individuals. The National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries discusses the need for a school library collection to reflect the school's community. Furthermore, the American Library Association's \"Diversity in Collection Development\" interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights states that library collections must represent the diversity of people within the society or community the library serves. If the current collection of young adult fiction portrays only the typical white, heterosexual main character, then the collection does not allow for understanding and learning of other races, cultures, and abilities, nor does it allow for students of minority groups to see themselves represented in books. The modern school library must strive to continually add diverse titles to its collection so that all students feel represented and can find and read books.
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Wrong side of the court
\"A young teen's world is changed when a friend is killed by gang violence, this novel is a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of high school, communal violence, and budding romance.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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‘More than biological’: Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves as Indigenous countergenetic fiction
This article reads Métis writer Cherie Dimaline’s novel The Marrow Thieves as one among a growing number of Indigenous countergenetic fictions. Dimaline targets two initiatives that reductively define indigeneity as residing in so-called Native American DNA: (1) direct-to-consumer genetic testing, through which an increasing number of people lay dubious claim to Indigenous ancestry, and (2) population genetics projects that seek urgently to sample Indigenous genetic diversity before Indigenous Peoples become too admixed and therefore extinct. Dimaline unabashedly incorporates the terminology of genetics into her novel, but I argue that she does so in order ultimately to underscore that genetics is ill-equipped to understand Indigenous ways of articulating kinship and belonging. The novel carefully articulates the full complexity of Indigenous self-recognition practices, urging us to wrestle with the importance of both the biological (DNA, blood and relation) and the ‘more than biological’ (story, memory, reciprocal ties of obligation and language) for Indigenous self-recognition and continuity. The novel shows that,to grasp Indigenous modes of self-recognition is to understand that Indigenous belonging exceeds any superficial sense of connection that a DNA test may produce and that, contrary to population geneticists’ claims, Indigenous Peoples are not vanishing but instead are actively engaged in everyday practices of survival. Finally, I point out that Dimaline—who identifies as Two-Spirit—does not idealise Indigenous communities and their ways of recognising their own; The Marrow Thieves also explicitly gestures to the ways in which Indigenous kinship-making practices themselves need to be rethought in order to be more inclusive of queer Indigenous Peoples.
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Nigeria Jones
\"A sixteen-year-old girl whose father is the leader of a Black liberation group discovers her own place in the world.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Representations of Power Relations in Thai Preadolescent Realistic Fiction About Karen People
Books that depict ethnic groups in Thailand can be used as critical tools to help young Thai adults better understand their compatriots from different cultures. SINCE OUR WORLD has become more diverse and connected, I maintain that a critical engagement with the representation of diversity in literature written for young readers will help them respect themselves and others. [...]it is crucial that young people living in all parts of the world, including Thailand, understand cultural diversity. [...]a number of non-Central Thais sometimes feel inferior to the Central Thais, who represent privilege and dominant power in the nation. [...]how these young people and their communities are portrayed in the books written for their ages cannot be overlooked, especially from a global perspective.
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