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From: Kim Caraher <caraher>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:54:32 +0930
Markus Zusak, who wrote Fighting Ruben Wolfe, also has two other books about Cameron and Ruben. This title is the second in the series -- the first is The Underdog, the third is When Dogs Cry. The other two are great reads as well, to see both how the characters and the author develops. Maybe they would be available to American readers through the website mentioned earlier? Also, I wonder if there are Australian on-line bookstores that could deal with international customers? I've certainly ordered books from the US over the internet before, and they've made it to Darwin just as well as books from Sydney. The exchange rate should make it not too expensive for many other countries. Does anyone know?
Kim
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From: Cassie Wilson
To: Subscribers of ccbc-net
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 3:36 AM
Subject: [CCBC-Net] Australian YA literature
I am very impressed with Australia's YA literature after reading Feeling Sorry for Celia and Fighting Reuben Wolfe, two of the finest novels in the genre. Those books hug the reader to them as they hurtle along the hormonal road to whatever. It seems to me that they capture the real spirit of the age and speak directly to it. They are full of energy, inventiveness, wit, and humor as well as pain and angst. I think they speak to real teens who have similar (though surely not quite the same) problems and let them know there are others who've been through it, too. Sometimes American writers seem to try to pile on as much misery as they can because there is apparently some perception that this is what teens want to read about, and maybe it is. I think they also want to read about overcoming obstacles and about lives that are not necessarily overwhemed with despair. Every youth that I've handed the books to have liked them and recommended them.
It is incomprehensible to me why the Printz Award committee did not give either of these books honor. I look forward to more books by these authors and hope that future committees will give them the acclaim they are due. Finding Australian literature is like discovering a whole new world. What a find!
Cassie Wilson
Received on Fri 19 Jul 2002 12:24:32 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:54:32 +0930
Markus Zusak, who wrote Fighting Ruben Wolfe, also has two other books about Cameron and Ruben. This title is the second in the series -- the first is The Underdog, the third is When Dogs Cry. The other two are great reads as well, to see both how the characters and the author develops. Maybe they would be available to American readers through the website mentioned earlier? Also, I wonder if there are Australian on-line bookstores that could deal with international customers? I've certainly ordered books from the US over the internet before, and they've made it to Darwin just as well as books from Sydney. The exchange rate should make it not too expensive for many other countries. Does anyone know?
Kim
----- Original Message -----
From: Cassie Wilson
To: Subscribers of ccbc-net
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 3:36 AM
Subject: [CCBC-Net] Australian YA literature
I am very impressed with Australia's YA literature after reading Feeling Sorry for Celia and Fighting Reuben Wolfe, two of the finest novels in the genre. Those books hug the reader to them as they hurtle along the hormonal road to whatever. It seems to me that they capture the real spirit of the age and speak directly to it. They are full of energy, inventiveness, wit, and humor as well as pain and angst. I think they speak to real teens who have similar (though surely not quite the same) problems and let them know there are others who've been through it, too. Sometimes American writers seem to try to pile on as much misery as they can because there is apparently some perception that this is what teens want to read about, and maybe it is. I think they also want to read about overcoming obstacles and about lives that are not necessarily overwhemed with despair. Every youth that I've handed the books to have liked them and recommended them.
It is incomprehensible to me why the Printz Award committee did not give either of these books honor. I look forward to more books by these authors and hope that future committees will give them the acclaim they are due. Finding Australian literature is like discovering a whole new world. What a find!
Cassie Wilson
Received on Fri 19 Jul 2002 12:24:32 AM CDT
