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YA author wins LA Times award
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From: Ruth I Gordon <druthgo>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 17:27:52 -0800
FYI
"M.T. Anderson won the Young Adult Fiction award for his novel "Feed", in which the teenage narrator travels to the moon for spring break. He cited the importance of literature for teens in a particularly difficult and confusing time.
"We need to give children complicated narratives to help them find out how the world works and who they might be," Anderson said.
The awards culminated the [Los Angeles] Times' two?y Festival of Books, which attracted 170,000 people to the UCLA campus.
Big grandma
"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." Jessica Mitford (191796)
Received on Mon 05 May 2003 08:27:52 PM CDT
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 17:27:52 -0800
FYI
"M.T. Anderson won the Young Adult Fiction award for his novel "Feed", in which the teenage narrator travels to the moon for spring break. He cited the importance of literature for teens in a particularly difficult and confusing time.
"We need to give children complicated narratives to help them find out how the world works and who they might be," Anderson said.
The awards culminated the [Los Angeles] Times' two?y Festival of Books, which attracted 170,000 people to the UCLA campus.
Big grandma
"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." Jessica Mitford (191796)
Received on Mon 05 May 2003 08:27:52 PM CDT
