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- ReadingWithPictures Resources and research for using comics and graphic novels in the classroom
- Cynsations Cynthia Leitich Smith’s blog about the writing bus.
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- Accepting Dad Dad supporting his gender variant child. Lots of resources.
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- Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists! All sorts of interesting book lists and links.
- The Pirate Tree Children’s book blog about social justice.
- Waging Peace Political blog–Women against war exploring and supporting non-military ways of solving conflicts.
- Queer YA: Fiction for LGTBQ Teens Review blog of fiction of interest for Queer teens.
- Lee & Low Blog of Lee & Low Books–a publisher of books about diversity
- Through the Tollbooth blog about children’s literature and craft issues
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Why Not All Kids Need to Read To Kill a Mockingbird
Last week I talked about the wonderful novel Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Saenz, but I cautioned that the book might not be appropriate for some teens. This is a point that I’ve made before in … Continue reading
Maybe God Wrote “Change”: Review of Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Saenz
So I have another wonderful book to share with you all. I am probably the last one to read Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Saenz–another Cinco Puntos Press book–but it was one of the most powerful books … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged abuse, alcoholism, Benjamin Alire Saenz, book review, boys, Cinco Puntos Press, depression, dissociation, emotional neglect, gay, GLBTQ, hospitalization, incest, Last Night I Sang to the Monster, latino, murder, neglect, PTSD, Speak, trauma, violence
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Superheroes to the Rescue: Graphic Novels Can Bridge Literacy Gaps
Hey y’all, sorry for the week-long hiatus. Life, I’m telling ya! Anyway, I wanted to post about graphic novels (and not just because I’m a secret Captain Underpants fan.) When I was at Vermont College of Fine Arts, I wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Book Lists, Thoughts
Tagged abuse, American Born Chinese, boys, GLBTQ, Graphic Novels, homeless, immigrant, literacy, Poverty, The Arrival, VCFA
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Picture Books with Unconventional Families
We generated this list on my grad school’s private forum, and I thought it might be interesting to you all. It’s picture books that don’t just have the mother-father-sibling-dog family relationships. The Family Book by Todd Parr Olivia by Ian … Continue reading
Growth through Strife: Review of This Thing Called the Future by J.L. Powers
The second of three books from Cinco Puntos Press that I want to feature, This Thing Called the Future by J.L. Powers, due out next month, is a heartbreakingly honest and ultimately uplifting story of one girl coming into her own through the … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged AIDS, Ask Us Who We Are, child as caretaker, Cinco Puntos Press, compassion, death, growth, J.L. Powers, parents, Poverty, South Africa, teens, This Thing Called the Future, violence
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