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From: Gardow, Pamela <pgardow_at_ecasd.k12.wi.us>
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:18:55 -0500
I agree with Megan. There are some great YA novels that deal with themes o f homelessness, poverty, and struggling single parent families. These are the ones that came to mind for me:
If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser - Teen is torn between helping to provide fo r his impoverished family and using education to get out of the inner city and gang involvement.
The Orange Houses by Paul Griffin - one of the three main characters is you ng and undocumented and another is a homeless war vet suffering from PTSD. (talk about social justice issues!!)
Runner by Carl Deuker - A teen is trying to earn money (the wrong way) to a void homelessness. He and his alcoholic father life on an old boat docked at a marina.
Trash by Andy Mulligan - A mystery centered around children who survive by scavenging at a dump site.
Tyrell by Coe Booth - Tyrell tries to hold it together while living in a ho meless shelter with his mom and younger brother.
Theories of Relativity by Barbara Haworth-Attard - Dylan's mother throws him out when she doesn't want her new boyfriend to know she has a teenaged son. He ends up trying to survive on the street, struggling to stay connec ted to his younger siblings.
Also, two fabulous Alex Award books with homelessness and poverty.
Sometimes we're always Real Same-Same (honor list) by Mattox Roesch - deal s with a mother and son who move away from LA gang life to live with her Na tive relatives in remote Unalakleet, Aalaska. My Abandonment by Peter Rock A 13 year old girl lives in a cave in the wil derness with her father, until they are discovered and forced to return to "civilization."
Pam
From: Megan Schliesman
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 11:05 AM To: ccbc-net, Subscribers of Subject:
Social Justice and Class
I agree that books depicting working class and poor families are not nearly as prevalent as middle class families (or, these days, fantasy novels), an d yet when I really start looking at contemporary children's literature thr ough this lens, I'm always surprised at the great books (especially novels; less so for picture books) I can identify that may not be specifically abo ut class and economic issues but that nonetheless provide a strong portraya l of working class and economically struggling realities.
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Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:18:55 -0500
I agree with Megan. There are some great YA novels that deal with themes o f homelessness, poverty, and struggling single parent families. These are the ones that came to mind for me:
If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser - Teen is torn between helping to provide fo r his impoverished family and using education to get out of the inner city and gang involvement.
The Orange Houses by Paul Griffin - one of the three main characters is you ng and undocumented and another is a homeless war vet suffering from PTSD. (talk about social justice issues!!)
Runner by Carl Deuker - A teen is trying to earn money (the wrong way) to a void homelessness. He and his alcoholic father life on an old boat docked at a marina.
Trash by Andy Mulligan - A mystery centered around children who survive by scavenging at a dump site.
Tyrell by Coe Booth - Tyrell tries to hold it together while living in a ho meless shelter with his mom and younger brother.
Theories of Relativity by Barbara Haworth-Attard - Dylan's mother throws him out when she doesn't want her new boyfriend to know she has a teenaged son. He ends up trying to survive on the street, struggling to stay connec ted to his younger siblings.
Also, two fabulous Alex Award books with homelessness and poverty.
Sometimes we're always Real Same-Same (honor list) by Mattox Roesch - deal s with a mother and son who move away from LA gang life to live with her Na tive relatives in remote Unalakleet, Aalaska. My Abandonment by Peter Rock A 13 year old girl lives in a cave in the wil derness with her father, until they are discovered and forced to return to "civilization."
Pam
From: Megan Schliesman
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 11:05 AM To: ccbc-net, Subscribers of Subject:
Social Justice and Class
I agree that books depicting working class and poor families are not nearly as prevalent as middle class families (or, these days, fantasy novels), an d yet when I really start looking at contemporary children's literature thr ough this lens, I'm always surprised at the great books (especially novels; less so for picture books) I can identify that may not be specifically abo ut class and economic issues but that nonetheless provide a strong portraya l of working class and economically struggling realities.
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