![]() On the other hand, all these slogans can be a limited lens for reading YA. ![]() It can make you understand that you are here and alive and that the world is a bright and shimmering place that you have every right to belong to. We all know that a great book can make you see yourself for the first time. Reading does change young people’s lives. They are all correct but also equally problematic. ![]() I’m borrowing the slogans of a few youth literacy organisations here. YA fiction, particularly when it’s in the literary or realist vein, is undeniably good at this. ![]() YA is valued for its ability to speak to, to dissect, to make present, to make clear, to smash over your head the issues that really matter in young people’s lives. Let me explain: more than any other genre YA books are likely to be judged on their relevance and relatability. I don’t want to talk about this book like that. ![]() I want to write an essay about Helena Fox’s remarkable Young Adult novel How It Feels To Float but I find myself distracted by the way that both reviewers and Young Adult literature advocates commonly talk about YA. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In Free Culture: how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity, legal scholar Lawrence Lessig details the history of this unbalancing and shows how the emergence of Internet culture exacerbates it. ![]() Over the last century, this balance has gotten out of whack in favor of longer and longer copyright terms and stricter and stricter enforcement of intellectual property rights. On one side, it harnesses the profit motive, giving creators an “exclusive Right” to sell or license “their respective Writings and Discoveries.” On the other side, it secures this right for “a limited term” so that others might build upon and reinterpret those writings and discoveries. Constitution, the purpose of the copyright law is “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.” To achieve this purpose, the Constitution balances two forces against one another. ![]() ![]() By examining Roots as a piece of scripture, Newton illustrates the grounding power of the book’s narrative - a wellspring of theology and culture for Americans for almost fifty years. ![]() Newton explains the success of Haley’s best-selling novel about the life of Kunta Kinte and his descendants and the novel’s place in the canonical narrative of America for both Black and White Americans. At issue is the concept, use, and function of “scripture,” particularly through the example of Alex Haley’s 1976 book Roots. ![]() ![]() In this episode, RSP co-editor Breann Fallon speaks with Assistant Professor Richard Newton about his new book Identifying Roots: Alex Haley and the Anthropology of Scriptures (Equinox 2020). ![]() ![]() Her books have been praised for their 'delicious descriptions' (Kirkus Reviews). Baker’s ‘Tales of the Frog Princess’ series will also relish this tale. Diane Zahler is the author of The Thirteenth Princess, A True Princess, and Princess of the Wild Swans. ![]() ![]() Readers who enjoyed Gail Carson Levine’s Ella Enchanted, Zahler’s The Thirteenth Princess or E.D. But the castle where the jewel lies is caught up in a different kind of search - the search for a true princess!ĭiane Zahler joins Shannon Hale and Gail Carson Levine as authors who are wizards at coming up with wonderful novels inspired by familiar fairy tales…Zahler creates memorable characters and a vivid setting. The only way Lilia can break the spell is to find a mysterious jewel of ancient power hidden somewhere in the North Kingdoms. A True Princess by Diane Zahler Reviewed February 11, 2011. ![]() A True Princess is now available in paperback - with a new look! Click on the book to learn more about it, and click here to order your own copy.Ī True Princess is loosely based on the classic fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea.” In this story, Lilia must save her best friend Kai from a terrible enchantment caused by their perilous encounter with the Elf-King and his beautiful daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() It begins with Stan Grant taking his son back to his ancestral homelands a place now named Poison Waterholes Creek. Talking to My Country is a memoir and meditation that serves to empower a history. But it confirmed to me how closely we are all woven into the invasion. ![]() I don't know if this "cleaning up" of a tribe ever made it into any history, or if it lingers only in white memoirs in south-eastern Victoria. That the saving of one small boy is worthy of mention assumes the killing of other children. He came to Orbost as Black Harry, a stockman …"Īs Grant predicted, a casual account of a massacre. ![]() One small boy was saved, taken to Buchan and reared. There, in six pages of memoirs narrated by my great, great uncle, Alec Cameron, when he was 94, was this: "When the blacks speared Dan the cook, and many people said he was the offender, a gathering of cattlemen cleaned up a lot of the tribe down the back flat. A reading of frontier accounts of meeting the Aborigines is replete with casual accounts of utter barbarity." These sentences sent me immediately to a manila folder of family photos, notes, letters and other historical scraps. Early in Talking to My Country, Stan Grant writes: "This is the history untold in my childhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a fictional account of the next American revolution (AR 2.0) using resilient communities, open source warfare, systems disruption, individual super-empowerment, parasitic predation, hollow nation-states, etc, (all staples of global guerrilla thinking) as central themes.Īs Robb describes it in his review of Freedom, Those are, perhaps not coincidentally, the central organizing principles of the new society that emerges in Suarez’s two novels. Very cool.Īny regular reader of this blog, anyone on the P2P Research or Open Manufacturing lists, anyone who follows John Robb, Jeff Vail or David Ronfeldt, should run-not walk-to buy both of these books.ĭaemon kicks off with the death of genius software and gaming mogul Matthew Sobol. ![]() ![]() Rita Williams-Garcia's books about Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern can also be read alongside nonfiction explorations of American history such as Jason Reynolds's and Ibram X. ![]() Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis's The Watsons Go to Birmingham and Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming will find much to love in these books. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama, all of which will make the perfect addition to a young reader’s growing library. ![]() This box set includes One Crazy Summer, a Newbery Honor book, National Book Award finalist, and winner of the Scott O’Dell Award P.S. Read the adventures of eleven-year-old Delphine and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, as they visit their kin all over the rapidly changing nation-and as they discover that the bonds of family, and their own strength, run deeper than they ever knew possible. Be Eleven (2013), are off to spend the summer in Alabama with Big Ma. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, the sisters who captured readers’ hearts in One Crazy Summer (2010) and P.S. ![]() ![]() Each humorous, unforgettable story follows the Gaither sisters as they grow up during one of the most tumultuous eras in recent American history, the 1960s. by Rita Williams-Garcia RELEASE DATE: ApThe coping skills of three sisters are put to the test as they leave Brooklyn for a rural summer in 1969 Alabama. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moritz is repped by UTA and attorney Howard Abramson. Winters is repped by UTA, the Gotham Group, Joelle Delbourgo Associates and attorney Bruce Gellman. He also has The Boys based on the graphic novel in development at Cinemax with Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Erik Kripke. In addition to Preacher, which has been renewed for a second season by AMC, through the Sony TV overall deal Moritz is executive producing sci-fi drama pilot Roadside Picnic pilot for WGN America Happy! pilot at Syfy and Cruel Intentions, which remains in contention at NBC. In addition to The Last Policeman, and Underground Airlines, Winters also sold his spec The Innocent Man to Universal TV with Will Packer producing. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II (Last Policeman Trilogy 2). Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The project mixes the two drama components that the broadcast networks have been pursuing heavily this buying season: procedurals and big ideas. Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II (Last Policeman Trilogy 2) - Kindle edition by Winters, Ben H. Upon the book’s release in 2012, it was acquired by Lorenzo di Bonaventura with the intention of turning it into a TV series. ![]() Dick Award for Distinguished Science Fiction. The Last Policeman, which launched a book trilogy, won the 2012 Edgar Award the Philip K. Winters is the author of nine novels, most recently the best-selling Underground Airlines, which he is adapting for Legendary with The Gotham Group and Warren Littlefield producing. NBC Buys Family Comedy From Suzanne Martin & Hazy Mills ![]() ![]() ![]() His writing helped illustrate the 1920s Jazz Age that he and wife Zelda Fitzgerald were in the centre of. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century and author of the classics ‘Tender is the Night’ and ‘The Great Gatsby’. Like the ‘The Great Gatsby’ and much of Fitzgerald’s other writing, this book is heavily inspired by his own life, and certainly by his tumultuous relationship with socialite and novelist Zelda Fitzgerald.į. Scott Fitzgerald’s most accomplished novels, ‘The Beautiful and the Damned’ (1922) explores the world of the rich and beautiful American elite during the golden Jazz Age. But his grandfather’s will is just around the corner and it is about to blow up their lives in a way they could never have foreseen. When he falls in love with the beautiful Gloria and they become part of the wild party scene of New York, it seems that Anthony has made it. Why should he? He gets by comfortably on his allowance and once his grandfather dies he will inherit so much that he never needs to think about money again. The classic novel of greed and vice from F. ![]() ![]() ![]() |a Initial Bemis load m2btab.test019 in 2019. |a Fluke, Joanne, |d 1943- |t Hannah Swensen mystery |0 |v bk. |a Women detectives |z Minnesota |v Fiction. ![]() ![]() |a Swensen, Hannah |c (Fictitious character) |0 |v Fiction. |a Summary: When bakery owner and sleuth Hannah Swensen discovers the body of Sheriff Grant behind the high school where she is teaching her cooking class, she must prove the innocence of the prime suspect, her brother-in-law Bill. |a New York, NY : |b Kensington Books, |c 2005. |a Fudge cupcake murder : |b a Hannah Swensen mystery / |c by Joanne Fluke. ![]() |