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Young Adult Realistic Fiction Book List
Young Adult Realistic Fiction Book List Denotes new titles recently added to the list while the severity of her older sister's injuries Abuse and the urging of her younger sister, their uncle, and a friend tempt her to testify against Anderson, Laurie Halse him, her mother and other well-meaning Speak adults persuade her to claim responsibility. A traumatic event in the (Mature) (2007) summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman Flinn, Alexandra year of high school. (2002) Breathing Underwater Sent to counseling for hitting his Avasthi, Swati girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to Split keep a journal, A teenaged boy thrown out of his 16-year-old Nick examines his controlling house by his abusive father goes behavior and anger and describes living with to live with his older brother, his abusive father. (2001) who ran away from home years earlier under similar circumstances. (Summary McCormick, Patricia from Follett Destiny, November 2010). Sold Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi Draper, Sharon leaves her poor mountain Forged by Fire home in Nepal thinking that Teenaged Gerald, who has she is to work in the city as a spent years protecting his maid only to find that she has fragile half-sister from their been sold into the sex slave trade in India and abusive father, faces the that there is no hope of escape. (2006) prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved. McMurchy-Barber, Gina Free as a Bird Erskine, Kathryn Eight-year-old Ruby Jean Sharp, Quaking born with Down syndrome, is In a Pennsylvania town where anti- placed in Woodlands School in war sentiments are treated with New Westminster, British contempt and violence, Matt, a Columbia, after the death of her grandmother fourteen-year-old girl living with a Quaker who took care of her, and she learns to family, deals with the demons of her past as survive every kind of abuse before she is she battles bullies of the present, eventually placed in a program designed to help her live learning to trust in others as well as her. -
The Best New and Notable Books for 4-12 Readers Judson Literacy in Motion Conference - 2015 Compiled and Annotated by Dr
The Best New and Notable Books for 4-12 Readers Judson Literacy in Motion Conference - 2015 Compiled and Annotated by Dr. Karen K. Biggs-Tucker [email protected] Twitter: @litcup Novels for Upper Grade Readers (Grades 7-12) *denotes titles with more mature content for readers Arnold, D. (2015). Mosquitoland. New York, NY: Viking. Mim begins the book by making the “move of her life” from Ohio to Mississippi with her father and new stepmother. When she learns that her mother is ill back in Cleveland, she boards a Greyhound bus to return to her and her past life. Her journey home takes her places, both physically and emotionally that she never expects. Aveyard, V. (2015). Red queen. New York, NY: Harper Teen. Mare lives in a society where the red-bloods serve the silver-blooded elite. Through a series of events, she finds herself betrothed to the son of the king because of an unknown gift that she has and that gives her great power. In her new position, she can help the Red Rebellion as they look to rise up against the silver-bloods…but at what cost to herself and others? Condie, A. (2014). Atlantia. New York, NY: Dutton. Rio lives in the underwater city of Atlantia. She dreams are shattered when her twin sister Bay leaves her stranded below the water. With nothing left to lose, she decides to begin to answer the questions about her own mother’s death and why the divide exists between those above and below the water. Dessen, S. -
The Love of a Good Narrative: Textuality and Digitality TERESA M
English Teaching: Practice and Critique September 2006, Volume 5, Number 2 http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/files/etpc/2006v5n2art4.pdf pp. 56-68 The love of a good narrative: Textuality and digitality TERESA M. DOBSON University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada ABSTRACT: It has often been observed that Alice Munro is a master of narrative complexity. “The love of a good woman”, in particular, is a story that challenges conventional notions of structure in short fiction through digression or deferral, discontinuity, layering, and so on. Ross (2002) rightly observes that conventional theories of reading fail to get at the process involved in achieving successful “apprenticeship” with Munro’s short fiction. This paper explores the intricacies of Munro’s creative craft as exemplified in “The love of a good woman” and proposes an approach to facilitating students’ engagement with complex narratives. Through creative writing in a computer-based “wiki” environment, it is argued, we encourage students to undertake the project of “layering” narrative and of establishing and interrogating complex narrative relations. This creative exercise, in turn, may facilitate their understanding of short fiction such as Munro’s. KEYWORDS: Digital literacy, textuality, English education, literacy education. THE LOVE OF A GOOD NARRATIVE: TEXTUALITY AND DIGITALITY The title story of Munro’s The love of a good woman begins in a small-town Ontario museum where, among the butter churns and horse harnesses, is displayed a box of optometrist’s instruments along with an explanatory note: “This box . has considerable local significance, since it belonged to Mr. D.M. Willens, who drowned in the Peregrine River, 1951. -
Wee Deliver: the In-School Postal Service. an Introductional Guide to the Postal Service's Wee Deliver In-School Literacy Program
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 448 442 CS 217 256 TITLE Wee Deliver: The In-School Postal Service. An Introductional Guide to the Postal Service's Wee Deliver In-School Literacy Program.. INSTITUTION Postal Service, Washington, DC. PUB DATE 1997-00-00 NOTE 44p. PUB TYPE Guides Classroom Teacher (052) EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Elementary Education; Job Skills; *Letters (Correspondence); *Literacy; *Reading Skills; *School Activities; *Writing (Composition) IDENTIFIERS *Post Office ABSTRACT Suggesting that schools can provide valuable reading and writing practice for their students through the implementation of a school post office program, this booklet describes the United States Postal Service's "Wee Deliver" program and provides some materials to get the program started. Participants may model their school after a town by naming streets and assigning addresses. Jobs can then be posted and filled through an application and interview process, with students selected based on achievement and attendance, thereby strengthening student motivation to do well. Students will learn real life skills by performing tasks, being on time for work and developing teamwork. Contains 41 references, a sample news release, application, and employment examination, and sample letter formats and certifications. (EF) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. CS I I An introductional guide to the Postal Service's Wee Deliver In-School Literacy Program U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. -
Cool Canadian Crime 2021
2021 Second Edition Cool Canadian Crime 2021 Books by Release Month January Carolyn Arnold, The Little Grave, Bookouture Vicki Delany, A Curious Incident, Crooked Lane Books A.J. Fotheringham, Secrets at the Spa, Book 4 of The Lamb's Bay Mysteries, Amazon Sarah Fox, A Room with a Roux (A Pancake House Mystery #7), Kensington Lyrical Barbara Fradkin, The Ancient Dead, Dundurn Press Jim Koris, Human Trafficking, the Retribution, Austin Macauley Publishers USA Lorna Poplak, The Don: The Story of Toronto's Infamous Jail, Dundurn Byron TD Smith, Windfall: A Henry Lysyk Mystery, Shima Kun Press Alan R Warren, Zodiac Killer Interviews, House of Mystery February Alice Bienia, Knight Trials, A. Bienia Victoria Hamilton, Double or Muffin, Beyond the Page Publishing Wendy Heuvel, Faith, Rope, and Love - Faith and Foils Cozy Mystery Series #4, Olde Crow Publishing Robert Rotenberg, Downfall, Simon & Schuster Alan R Warren, JFK Assassination: The Interviews, House of Mystery Alan R Warren, Jack the Ripper : The Interviews, House of Mystery March Diane Bator, All That Shines, BWL Publishing Ltd. Richard Boyer, Murder 101, Friesen Press William Deverell, Stung, ECW Press RM Greenaway, Five Ways to Disappear, Dundurn Press Julie Hiner, Acid Track, KillersAndDemons.com John MacGougan, Secrets of the Innocent, Tellwell Talent C.S. O'Cinneide, Starr Sign: The Candace Starr Series, Dundurn Press Gloria Pearson-Vasey, The Hallowmas Train, Tellwell Talent Judy Penz Sheluk, Where There's A Will, ACX/Judy Penz Sheluk Chris Racknor, Hidden Variables, Yellow Brick -
SPECIAL DELIVERY Video Messages from Incarcerated Parents Brighten Holidays for Oklahoma Children
• An Independent JournAl of CommentAry • DECEMBER 2015 • VOLUME 47 NUMBER 12 • $5.00 SPECIAL DELIVERY Video Messages From Incarcerated Parents Brighten Holidays For Oklahoma Children How Oklahoma Messages Project Transforms Lives And Helps Break The Family-Prison Pipeline – Page 12 Observations www.okobserver.net Idiocy VOLUME 47, NO. 12 It’s difficult to pick Oklahoma’s dumbest public policy decision in re- PUBLISHER Beverly Hamilton cent years. There are so many choices. The series of income tax cuts and corporate welfare schemes now EDITOR Arnold Hamilton crippling state services rank near the top. So do the litany of unconsti- DIGITAL EDITOR MaryAnn Martin tutional measures that violated church-state separation and reproduc- tive rights. FOUNDING EDITOR Frosty Troy The most egregious, though, may be the state’s refusal to accept Med- ADVISORY BOARD icaid expansion, a classic example of cutting off your nose to spite your Marvin Chiles, Andrew Hamilton, face. Matthew Hamilton, Scott J. Hamilton, It’s nothing short of criminal that the state’s physical and economic Trevor James, Ryan Kiesel, health is at risk because of political pettiness – Gov. Mary Fallin’s and George Krumme, Robert D. Lemon, Gayla Machell, Bruce Prescott, the elected Republican leadership’s loathing of President Obama. Robyn Lemon Sellers, Kyle Williams Without Medicaid expansion, an estimated 150,000 working poor re- main without basic healthcare coverage. Rural hospitals teeter on the OUR MOTTO brink of collapse because of uncompensated care. And a staggered oil- To Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable. dependent economy sorely needs the 12,000-15,000 jobs that Medicaid expansion was projected to create over 20 years. -
Transgender Books in Transgender Packages: the Peritextual Materials of Young Adult Fiction
Vol. 1, No. 1 · 2020 · ISSN 2634-5277 DOI: 10.24877/ijyal.32 Distributed under CC BY 4.0 Transgender Books in Transgender Packages: The peritextual materials of young adult fiction Emily Corbett ABSTRACT The packaging of a book – its peritextual materials including front cover, blurb, acknowledgements, afterword, and author notes – provides information that can contribute to a potential reader’s decision whether or not to purchase, borrow, or read the story it encases. As such, the choices made by authors, illustrators, editors, and publishers regarding books’ peritextual features can offer important insights into the spaces books are intended to occupy within their contemporary market. This article examines the peritextual materials of a broad range of British and American transgender young adult novels published in the twenty-first century, in the context of the We Need Diverse Books movement and Time’s “transgender tipping point” which coincided in the mid-2010s. In doing so, it shows how the field of transgender young adult fiction has developed over the last five or so years to include more variety, intersectional diversity, and Own Voices authorship, as well as considering how the commercial packaging of various books might usefully signal the audience each is intended to attract. While a growing area of scholarship, existing research on transgender young adult novels has predominantly focused on the stories or their pedagogical function for teenage readers. Taking a different approach, this article asks how a selection of Emily Corbett is a PhD Candidate at the National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature, University of Roehampton. -
The Love of a Good Woman” Ulrica Skagert University of Kristianstad
Things within Things Possible Readings of Alice Munro’s “The Love of a Good Woman” Ulrica Skagert University of Kristianstad Abstract: Alice Munro’s “The Love of a Good Woman” is perhaps one of the most important stories in her œuvre in terms of how it accentuates the motivation for the Nobel Prize of Literature: “master of the contemporary short story.” The story was first published in The New Yorker in December 1996, and over 70 pages long it pushes every rule of what it means to be categorised as short fiction. Early critic of the genre, Edgar Allan Poe distinguished short fiction as an extremely focused attention to plot, properly defined as that to which “no part can be displaced wit- hout ruin to the whole”. Part of Munro’s art is that of stitching seemingly disparate narrative threads together and still leaving the reader with a sense of complete- ness. The story’s publication in The New Yorker included a subtitle that is not part of its appearing in the two-year-later collection. The subtitle, “a murder, a mystery, a romance,” is interesting in how it is suggestive for possible interpretations and the story’s play with genres. In a discussion of critical readings of Munro’s story, I propose that the story’s resonation of significance lies in its daring composition of narrative threads where depths of meaning keep occurring depending on what aspects one is focusing on for the moment. Further, I suggest that a sense of completion is created in tone and paralleling of imagery. -
Police Response to Gangs: a Multi-Site Study
The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: Police Response to Gangs: A Multi-Site Study Author(s): Charles M. Katz; Vincent J. Webb Document No.: 205003 Date Received: April 2004 Award Number: 98-IJ-CX-0078 This report has not been published by the U.S. Department of Justice. To provide better customer service, NCJRS has made this Federally- funded grant final report available electronically in addition to traditional paper copies. Opinions or points of view expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. Police Response to Gangs: A Multi-Site Study 1 Prepared for the National Institute of Justice by Charles M. Katz Vincent J. Webb Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology December 2003 Phoenix, Arizona 1 This research report was funded by the National Institute of Justice, Grant No. 1998-IJ-CX-0078. The opinions expressed in the report are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the National Institute of Justice. Table of Contents Abstract ................................................................................................................................ i Research Goals and Objectives ........................................................................................ i Research Design and Methodology.................................................................................. i Research Results and Conclusions..................................................................................ii -
The Good Woman of Setzuan
BERTOLT BRECHT THE GOOD WOMAN OF SETZUAN Revised English version and Introduction by ERIC BENTLEY GROVE PRESS, INC. NEW YORK -'AcKNOWLEDGMENT. The translator wishes to acknowledge . -the contribution of Mrs. Maja Apelman to the first version of the book Parables of the Theatre, as published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1948. Copyright by Eric Bentley, 1947, as an unpublished MS, Registration No. D-12239. Copyright © 1956, 1961 by Eric Bentley. Epilogue copyright © 1965 by Eric Bentley. Introduction copyright © 1965 by Eric Bentley. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This play may not be acted, read aloud to an audience, broadcast, televised, performed or presented in any way, as a whole or in part, without permission. Inquiries should be addressed to Samuel French, Inc., 25 West 45th Street, New York, New York 10036 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 66-14106 First Evergreen Black Cat Edition 1966 MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTRODUCTION Bertolt Brecht wrote Der gute Mensch von Sezuan in Scan dinavia at the end of the nineteen-thirties. It was originally dedicated to his wife Helene Weigel, to whose playing it was ideally suited. Even the male part of the role would have been nothing new for her: she had played the Young Comrade in The Measures Taken. Yet, in fact, The Good Woman had its world premiere in Zurich during World War II, when Frau Weigel was a refugee in America. And by the time the play was produced by the Berliner Ensem ble she was too old for the role. Meanwhile there had been many American productions. -
Annual Report 2018 Contents Who Are We?
ANNUAL REPORT 2018 CONTENTS WHO ARE WE? INTRODUCTION 02 Kids Under Cover has been working hard for almost 30 years to prevent youth homelessness. We support vulnerable and disadvantaged young OUR WORK 08 people between the ages of 12 and 25 years who are either already homeless or at risk of homelessness. OUR FUNDING 24 We are the only not-for-profit organisation in Australia delivering the unique combination of studio accommodation (placed in backyards) and education scholarships as a practical OUR PEOPLE 38 and proven strategy in preventing youth homelessness. It is Kids Under Cover’s mission to provide young people at risk of homelessness the foundations to strengthen their connection to family, community, and education and make a lasting difference in their lives. BOARD & GOVERNANCE 40 FINANCIAL REPORT 42 WHAT WE DO THANK YOU 58 Our early intervention and prevention model has been successfully shown to interrupt the spiral of homelessness and is a far more effective strategy both economically and socially in ending the homelessness crisis. Kids Under Cover’s early intervention model is delivered in two parts: • The Studio Program is at the heart of Kids Under Cover’s work. One- or two-bedroom studios (with bathroom) are built in the backyard of a family or carer’s home, providing secure and stable accommodation for young people at risk of homelessness. • Complementing the Studio Program, scholarships are awarded to assist with the financial costs associated with PHOTOGRAPHY: SPECIAL THANKS TO MEGAGRAPHICS education or training, to keep young people (aged 15-25 years) engaged with education and connected to the community. -
The Noveis of Louisa May Alcott As Commentary On
THE NOVEIS OF LOUISA MAY ALCOTT AS COMMENTARY ON THE AMERICAN FAMILY Martha Irene Smith Shull A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY August 1975 Approved.by Doctoral Committee i 1 k - - II ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I should like to acknowledge my grateful thanks for all the assistance and many kindnesses shown me by my committee: Dr. David Addington, Dr. J. Robert Bashore, Dr. Frederick Eckman, and Dr. Virginia Platt. I should like especially to thank the chairman of my committee, Dr. Alma J. Payne, who gave unstintingly of her time, her knowledge, her experience, and her self. My committee are more than academiciansj they are true reflections of Chaucer’s Clerk, "And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche." TABLE OF CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION..................................... 1 Chapter I....................................... 26 Chapter II....................................... 82 Chapter III.............................. 137 Chapter IV....................................... 203 Bibliography..................................... 233 I INTRODUCTION The novels of Louisa May Alcott shed a great deal of light on the complex plight of the American family in the Gilded Age. It is generally accepted by social historians and sociologists that the beginnings of the erosion of the American family as a tightly-knit unit exerting consider able influence on the mores of society began with the 1870s. Parallel with this working hypothesis is the supporting literary evidence in the American novel. With the excep tion of the sentimental and sensational novels prior to Realism, the American novel generally did not center around a family situation or around American social behavior.