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Take 5: Teens as Sci Fi Soldiers(ish) – When YA Lit meets The Bourne Identity or Red Dawn (or even 12 Monkeys)
When we read The Hunger Games, we like to think to ourselves that we know that would never happen – who sends kids out to kill? But the truth is, there are countries all over the world where children are in fact forced to become soldiers and fight for causes they know little about and […]
Blackout by Robison Wells and How I Learned to Question What Teens Are Learning About the Government
Two interesting things happened last month: I read Blackout by Robison Wells and we learned that the NSA is getting access to a large amount of data about ordinary American citizens. And this past week, Salon has been running a series of articles about militant police forces. These combination of events really made me wonder: […]
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