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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 07:08:01 -0700

We will begin our discussion topic for July, Realism in YA Lit, AFTER the fourth of July holiday weekend. Please feel free to use the upcoming week to share your children's and young adult literature-related announcements.
  And here are the topics and discussion books for the next two months on CCBC-Net:
 
 July: Reading Real: Realism Is Coming Back in YA Lit. Yes, we know it never went away, but the fact is over the past decade we've seen an abundance of fantasy and speculative fiction, including the dystopias and supernatural/human romances that for a number of years seemed to be all mainstream media saw when they glanced over into the world of young adult publishing and teens and reading. Now we're seeing an increase in works of realistic fiction, once the mainstay of publishing for young adults. During the second half of the month, we'll discuss two recent works of realistic y.a. fiction:

Week of July 21: Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn (St. Martin's Griffin 2013)

Week of July 28: Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina (Candlewick Press, 2013)


August: Muslim Culture in Children's and Young Adult LIterature. We'll focus our discussion in August on portrayals of Muslims and Muslim culture in books for children and teens. The first part of the month, we'll invite discussion of visibility, representation and other issues. During the second part of the month, we'll talk about two recent titles.

King for a Day by Rukhsana Khan (Lee and Low, 2013)

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan (Algonquin, 2013)

(Interested in exploring this topic in person? The Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium's 2014 Children's Literature Conference theme is "Muslim Journeys." The conference will be held on Saturday, August, 16, on the UW-Madison campus. For more information, to go: http://wioc.wisc.edu/events/childlit/


 Megan
 
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