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Take 5: 5 New Titles Coming from Simon & Schuster
Of Metal and Wishes by Sarah Fine Publisher’s Description: “There are whispers of a ghost in the slaughterhouse where sixteen-year-old Wen assists her father in his medical clinic—a ghost who grants wishes to those who need them most. When one of the Noor, men hired as cheap factory labor, humiliates Wen, she makes an impulsive […]
Why I Teach Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward in My High School, a guest post by author Brendan Kiely
During our recent #SVYALit Project Hangout, author Brendan Kiely (The Gospel of Winter) mentioned that he taught the book Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward in his classroom. Today he is talking with us about teaching this book in his classroom, sharing the who, what, why and how his teens respond. Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the […]
Teen Issues: Teen Pregnancy and Complications
The teen girl trudged through the mall like a zombie; obviously pregnant and with a strange backpack on her back with a tube going into her body. She barely walked a few steps before she had to find a bench and sit down, tired and out of breath. Never before must a small mall have […]
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A little over 1,000 teens gives birth every day. Just yesterday I held the 5-week-old baby of one of the teens that visits my library. The majority of teen fiction that deals with teen pregnancy focuses on only one part of the discussion: will the teen mother keep the baby or will she either end […]
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