Author: Melissa Walker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599909820
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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High school junior Lacey finds herself questioning the evangelical Christian values she has been raised with when a new boy arrives in her small town.
Author: A. E. Martin
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 9781862542907
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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The time is the mid 1890s. The setting: a small outback town. Harry Ford, the postmaster, is opening other people's mail. They say nothing ever happens in small towns, but there's plenty to set tongue a-wagging in this neighborhood: adultery, blackmail, disappearances, poisonings. And then the Great Boldini comes to town.
Author: Lisa A. Hazlett
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1475859627
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Teaching Diversity in Rural Schools: Attaining Understanding, Tolerance, and Respect Through Young Adult Literature aims to assist secondary English Language Arts rural educatorsand students regarding diversity education through the use of rural, small town-themed young adult literature. While appropriate for any rural educator, the Upper Midwestern states (IA, MN, MT, NE, ND, SD, and WY) are focused on because they are unique in their predominantly White residents, with few to no racial and cultural minorities in all locations, large or small. Teaching rural students about minorities and facilitating in developing understanding, tolerance, and respect toward those different from oneself is difficult when absent from communities and schools. However, this book helps in reaching these goals through the use of titles that consider specific topics of cultural and racial minorities, such as those who are LGBTQ+, undocumented, homeless, having exceptionalities, managing grief/loss, and more. Also addressed are rural communities and schools, the purpose and importance of young adult literature, and locating quality rural, small town-themed novels. Suggestions for using this literature, activities, discussion topics, and recommended titles are also provided.
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Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: Patty Campbell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442252391
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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In a time when almost any gritty topic can be featured in a young adult novel, there is one subject that is avoided by writers and publishers. Faith and belief in God seldom appear in traditional form in novels for teens. The lack of such ideas in mainstream adolescent literature can be interpreted by teens to mean that these matters are not important. Yet a significant part of growing up is struggling with issues of spirituality. The underlying problem, of course, is that there are so few writers who are willing to talk to teenagers about God, even indirectly, or who themselves have the religious literacy for the task. Spirituality in Young Adult Literature: The Last Taboo tackles a subject rarely portrayed in fiction aimed at teens. In this volume, Patty Campbell examines not only realistic fiction, but young adult literature that deals with mysticism, apocalyptical end times, and even YA novels that depict the Divine Encounter. Campbell maintains that fantasy works are inherently spiritual, because the plots nearly always progress toward a showdown between good and evil. As such, the author surmises that the popularity of fantasy among teens may represent their interest in the mystical dimensions of faith and the otherworldly. In this study, Campbell examines works of fiction that express perspectives from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism. Distinguished YA novelist Chris Crowe provides a chapter on Mormon values and Mormon YA authors and how their novels integrate those values into their books. By looking at how spirituality is represented in novels aimed at teens, this book asks what progress, if any, has been made in slaying the taboo. Although most of the books discussed in this study are recent, an appendix lists YA books from 1967 to the present that have dealt with issues of faith. A timely look at an important subject, Spirituality in Young Adult Literature will be of interest to young adult librarians, junior and senior high school teachers, and students and instructors of college courses in adolescent literature, as well as to parents of teens.
Author: Judith A. Hayn
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1475829485
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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This book introduces the reader to what is current and relevant in the plethora of good books available for adolescents. Literary experts illustrate how teachers everywhere can help their students become lifelong readers by simply introducing them to great reads—smart, insightful, and engaging books that are specifically written for adolescents.
Author: Charlotte Jay
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 9781862542891
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Gilbert Hand hasn't been the same since his wife died. He's moved to a dull but respectable hotel where silence seems to brood in the hall and stairway. In a secret drawer, he discovers a long, thick hank of human hair, and his world narrows down to two people -- himself and the murderer.
Author: Melissa Walker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599908271
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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You can't help who you fall in love with. It's a lesson Clementine Williams knows all too well. She's headed into the summer with a broken heart and zero social life. So even though her parents' plan to spend the summer (trapped) on their sailboat should make Clem break out in hives, she doesn't really mind the chance to float away for a while. Even if it means most of her social interaction will be with her nine-year-old sister. Then she meets James at one of their stops on the Great Loop-a classic sailing track in the US. He and his dad are sailing the same track and he's just the distraction Clem needs. But will he be able to break down Clem's walls and heal her broken heart? Told in alternating chapters that chronicle the year that broke Clem's heart and the summer that healed it, Unbreak My Heart is a wonderful dual love story from magazine writer/editor and rising star, Melissa Walker.
Author: Alan Goble
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110951940
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1948436515
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1217
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The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 211 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.
