From: ARNOLDADOFF at aol.com <ARNOLDADOFF>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 20:03:56 EDT

please let me add: jaime adoff's

names will never hurt me: a day in a large high school and alternating lives/voices of four students caught up in the potential for violence....

jimi&me: winner of coretta king/steptoe/new talent award....

(let me pass along jaime's site: jaimeadoff.com for further details....)


unique: biracial as well as black (and white) kids in both books....
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personal note: is anyone else disturbed by the easy acceptance of "verse novels" as all-purpose label for this disparate sub-division of young adult novels....

but this is an exciting development in youth literature....a.
Received on Tue 04 Apr 2006 07:03:56 PM CDT