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From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:52:00 -600
Have you read the young adult novel Slot Machine by Chris Lynch
(HarperCollins, 1995)? Have you stopped laughing yet? weeping? How close is Slot Machine to certain realities of male adolescence?
While we were discussing Slot Machine at the CCBC one afternoon last year, one woman described it as "notes from the Planet Boy." During the same discussion, a male reader was astonished that many of the women there that day had taken some of the episodes in Slot Machine so literally; he understood Lynch's depiction of male teen peer pressure as exaggeration.
Have you heard comments from any teen readers of Slot Machine?
What are your own questions? comments? Speak up!
... Ginny
**************************************************************** Ginny Moore Kruse Ginny's CCBC-NET e-mail: gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu General CCBC e-mail: mail.ccbcinfo at Masoemadison.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706 USA
Received on Mon 11 Mar 1996 12:52:00 PM CST
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:52:00 -600
Have you read the young adult novel Slot Machine by Chris Lynch
(HarperCollins, 1995)? Have you stopped laughing yet? weeping? How close is Slot Machine to certain realities of male adolescence?
While we were discussing Slot Machine at the CCBC one afternoon last year, one woman described it as "notes from the Planet Boy." During the same discussion, a male reader was astonished that many of the women there that day had taken some of the episodes in Slot Machine so literally; he understood Lynch's depiction of male teen peer pressure as exaggeration.
Have you heard comments from any teen readers of Slot Machine?
What are your own questions? comments? Speak up!
... Ginny
**************************************************************** Ginny Moore Kruse Ginny's CCBC-NET e-mail: gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu General CCBC e-mail: mail.ccbcinfo at Masoemadison.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706 USA
Received on Mon 11 Mar 1996 12:52:00 PM CST
