From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 11:04:46 -0500

August: Freewheeling discussion of new fiction for young adults, beginning with Tenderness by Robert Cormier (Delacorte, 1997), moving to Buffalo Tree by Adam Rapp (Front Street, 1997), and then including everyone's recommendations and comments about other y.a./adolescent fiction published for the first time during 1997. The two contemporary novels cited above are *very* y.a.; I predict there will be no argument about that, and this is probably the only time most/all of you will agree with me!

September: Freewheeling discussion of older and new books by the versatile author/artist Molly Bang. Details to be announced.

October: Freewheeling discussion of the novel for children Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte, 1997), expanded to discussion of other novels (older and new) also set during World War Two, along with discussion of the question - what causes a novel to be categorized as "historical fiction," anyway? what are the elements of historical fiction? are the picture books with fictionalized biographical themes also "historical fiction?" Etc.

********************* Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison
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