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From: The Nation[(review date 3 November 1997) In the following review of My Brother, Wachman praises Kincaid's narrative voice and understated clarity, but finds shortcomings in Kincaid's understanding of homosexuality.] To read...
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From: Children's Book Review ServiceAges 13-16. This fourth title [The Reunion] in a series of books about Scottish teenager Maggie McKinley tells of her eighteenth summer, when she leaves home for the first time and travels to Ottawa for work as a...
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From: Rationales for Teaching Young Adult Literature[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Williams examines how Weetzie Bat holds an unique appeal for teenagers who are typically unable to connect to normative young adult literature.] Intended Audience Students...
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From: Publishers WeeklyThe sequel to Zindel's first novel for teenagers, The Pigman, is sure to receive a warm welcome from readers who want to know what happened to John and Lorraine after the death of their elderly friend, Mr. Pignati. Here...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersNicholasa Mohr, the first Puerto Rican woman born on the U.S. mainland to write about her ethnic roots in New York City's Lower East Side and the South Bronx, is an artist as well as an author of young adult novels. She...
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From: BooklistShabanu: Daughter of the Wind, with its wholly realized characters and its glimpses into another culture, had a presence not easily found in young adult books. It is often difficult for a sequel to generate the same...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersSandra Cisneros writes about life in the Latino communities of Mexican-American border towns, focusing particularly on the struggles of Latina women. In her short-story collections The House on Mango Street and Woman...
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From: The Five OwlsA new book from Robert Cormier is always a surprise package. Now, following the monumental intricacies of Fade, this finest of all young adult novelists has written a gentle, charming novella ostensibly for middle...
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From: BooklistPaulsen is best known for his young adult fiction, survival stories mainly. [In Eastern Sun, Winter Moon] he tells one of his own. A young boy during World War II, Paulsen was seven before he met his father, who was off...
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From: The Horn Book Magazine[The Chocolate War] was a milestone in the writing of fiction for young adults, for it translated the attitudes, concerns, and relationships peculiar to the microcosmic world of the private high school into symbols of a...
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From: Journal of ReadingAnother new book in the Lives Well Led series is Woman of Independence: The Life of Abigail Adams, which portrays Abigail Adams as a positive role model for young women. Adams devoted her life to balancing the multitude...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, like all of Muriel Spark's books, is not a young adult novel in the sense that it was not written particularly for young adults. But because it is the story of six girls who come of age...
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From: New Advocate[(essay date winter 1998) In this essay, Motes considers the treatment of sexual identity in young adult serial fiction paying particular attention to works aimed at female readers.] My four years as a seventh grade...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersConrad Richter may be best known for his historical Ohio trilogy, The Trees, The Fields, and The Town, but it is his Light in the Forest which has attracted consistent attention in the public schools and has developed an...
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From: Progressive[(review date January 2000) In the following review, Cusac applauds Various Voices, observing that it provides valuable insight about Pinter and his plays.] I have a confession to make. Well, "confession" may be the...
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From: CM: Canadian Review of Materials[(essay date 23 June 2000) In the following essay, Golke provides a critical overview of the "Stage School" series of young adult novels that McNicoll co-authored with Linda Hendry and Sharon Siamon under the shared...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersChristopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier are a brother team of writers who are best known for two historical fiction trilogies about adolescents growing up in New England during the American Revolution and the early...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersHarper Lee's only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and established her place in young adult literature. Universal themes of justice, compassion, racism, and family love enrich this...
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From: Studies in the Novel[(essay date Spring 1992) In the following essay, Williams draws attention to the sociopolitical context and value of Brighton Rock. According to Williams, " Brighton Rock remains one of Brighton Rock (1938), reprinted...
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From: English Journal[(essay date 1993) In the following excerpt from an essay on Petry, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston, Gebhard recommends The Street to high school readers who want to understand the search for black cultural...