WZZM13.com - NEWS ARTICLEFriday, February 18, 2005
Author Chris Crutcher will not speak to students at Grand Haven High School next month... ... "Didn?t want controversy to be the focal point of his visit," says the superintendent. "Wanted his message to be the focal point of his visit".Crutcher is the author of a story that uses racial slurs to help teach young people about prejudice. He says Grand Haven is just worried about criticism.
'Many desi parents are delusional about sex'
Pooja Makhijani, 26, is the editor of Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America.
The webpage includes an interview with the 26-year-old author, who says, "My first picture book, Mama's Saris (Little, Brown & Company Books for Young Readers), will be out in spring 2006, hopefully in time for Mother's Day. The book tells the story of a precocious girl's desire to dress up in her mother's beautiful saris. I am working on another picture book, a young adult book, and a book for adults."
HoustonChronicle.com - Books for teens and tweens come of age
An article about the rise & rise of teen chicklit, which includes mention of the forthcoming Bras And Broomsticks as an example of the genre...
Since the late 1990s, teen "chick lit" ? think Bridget Jones in high school ? has been gaining popularity, bringing in fortunes for publishers and booksellers, prompting established adult authors to target younger audiences and giving teens and tweens (9- to 12-year-old girls) their own heroines."(Teen chick lit) is still growing each year by double digits," said Joe Monti, national young adult buyer for Barnes & Noble. "I can't see a ceiling yet, and I can't even gauge when that ceiling will be hit."
Scholastic Goes Back to Press on The Land of Elyon Book 1: The Dark Hills Divide
Scholastic US announced yesterday that
it was going back to press for 50,000 more copies of its best-selling fantasy
novel, The Land of Elyon Book 1: The Dark Hills Divide by Patrick Carman. In
less than a month after its release, the book has risen on The New York Times
bestseller list for three straight weeks and is now at #6.
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Army mag draws Potter comparisons
Lawyers for author JK Rowling are investigating a US army magazine cartoon whose characters bear an uncanny resemblance to Harry Potter.
Analysis: Doll's story offends Hispanics - (United Press International)
Gary Soto, author of Big Bushy Mustache, is under fire for a story that is bundled with a Latina doll:
A storybook that accompanies a Latina doll added to the popular American Girl Today collection for 2005 has offended some Hispanic activists in ZIP code 60608.
USATODAY.com - 'I, Dred Scott' puts a face on a name from history
"That little plaque aroused my curiosity," [SHeila P.] Moses says. "I started doing research, and the more I did, the more I began to think about Dred Scott. Who was he? What was he like?" She tries to answer those questions in I, Dred Scott (McElderry, $16.95), a 96-page fictional slave narrative based on history and aimed at readers ages 10 to 14.
DallasNews.com | News for Dallas, Texas | Entertainment: Books
"I had to put aside Jane Eyre for a couple of days," says the sophomore at Ursuline Academy of Dallas of her required reading for honors English. "Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down."That's the response author Ann Brashares is hoping for. After a nearly two-year wait, readers can catch up with Tibby, Bridget, Lena and Carmen in Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (Delacorte Press, $16.95).
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