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From: maggie_bo_at_comcast.net
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:56:44 +0000 (UTC)
I was so excited to find out that "The Summer Prince" was up for discussion this month, because I had just finished reading this fabulous book a few weeks ago. I am a middle school librarian, but I loved it so much I had to email our high school librarian right away and lobby her to purchase it when I saw it was not yet in our system!
What amazes me most about this book is that it addresses so many "issues"--sexuality, gender roles, religion, race, poverty, ageism, technology, the environment, just to name a few--and yet everything is woven in so seamlessly, so naturally, that we are never jolted out of the story with the feeling that we are being preached to or instructed. I think in some ways, the very fact that so many "issues" are included is what contributes to the book's believability. In reality, most "issues" are entangled with other "issues"-- and in Johnson's book, that's exactly what we see. For example, characters' skin color/race, age, religious/cultural beliefs, economic/social standing, and sex (males are less dominant in the society of Palmares Tres), all have an impact on their sexual behavior (just as they do in this world).
Maggie Bokelman Eagle View Middle School Mechanicsburg, PA
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Received on Mon 17 Mar 2014 08:57:03 AM CDT
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:56:44 +0000 (UTC)
I was so excited to find out that "The Summer Prince" was up for discussion this month, because I had just finished reading this fabulous book a few weeks ago. I am a middle school librarian, but I loved it so much I had to email our high school librarian right away and lobby her to purchase it when I saw it was not yet in our system!
What amazes me most about this book is that it addresses so many "issues"--sexuality, gender roles, religion, race, poverty, ageism, technology, the environment, just to name a few--and yet everything is woven in so seamlessly, so naturally, that we are never jolted out of the story with the feeling that we are being preached to or instructed. I think in some ways, the very fact that so many "issues" are included is what contributes to the book's believability. In reality, most "issues" are entangled with other "issues"-- and in Johnson's book, that's exactly what we see. For example, characters' skin color/race, age, religious/cultural beliefs, economic/social standing, and sex (males are less dominant in the society of Palmares Tres), all have an impact on their sexual behavior (just as they do in this world).
Maggie Bokelman Eagle View Middle School Mechanicsburg, PA
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