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From: K.T. Horning <horning_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 08:54:22 -0600
Jane, thanks so much for calling "Into the River" to our attention. As far as I can tell, it hasn't been published in the U.S. yet, but I hope a publisher is planning to bring it out here. I went to the original blog post you linked to to read more about it and it sounds like a fascinating novel.
One of the lines that stood out for me in Emma Neale's blog post was:
"The point isn?t the sex: it?s what the sex represents." How often is this the case in YA literature as a whole? Can anyone think of other YA books where a sex scene represents an important theme in the book?
--KT
On 3/5/2014 4:39 PM, Jane Thomsen wrote:
>
> Hello everyone
>
> I have been lurking on this list for about a month, and reading the
> discussions with great interest. The most recent topic is very timely
> from a New Zealand perspective.
>
> The 2013 winner of the New Zealand Post Children?s Book Award was
> ?Into the River? by Ted Dawe. Aimed at older teens, the suitability
> of its content has been challenged multiple times. There is an
> excellent blog entry by Emma Neale, who undertook the initial
> assessment and editing of the book:
>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 08:54:22 -0600
Jane, thanks so much for calling "Into the River" to our attention. As far as I can tell, it hasn't been published in the U.S. yet, but I hope a publisher is planning to bring it out here. I went to the original blog post you linked to to read more about it and it sounds like a fascinating novel.
One of the lines that stood out for me in Emma Neale's blog post was:
"The point isn?t the sex: it?s what the sex represents." How often is this the case in YA literature as a whole? Can anyone think of other YA books where a sex scene represents an important theme in the book?
--KT
On 3/5/2014 4:39 PM, Jane Thomsen wrote:
>
> Hello everyone
>
> I have been lurking on this list for about a month, and reading the
> discussions with great interest. The most recent topic is very timely
> from a New Zealand perspective.
>
> The 2013 winner of the New Zealand Post Children?s Book Award was
> ?Into the River? by Ted Dawe. Aimed at older teens, the suitability
> of its content has been challenged multiple times. There is an
> excellent blog entry by Emma Neale, who undertook the initial
> assessment and editing of the book:
>
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