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From: Lyn Miller-Lachmann <lynml_at_me.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:09:30 -0500
At the risk of tipping my hand as a Cybils panelist, I'd like to call attention to the two other general YA fiction titles that are on the Morris list and particularly impressed me--Isabel Quintero's GABI: A GIRL IN PIECES (a year in which a Latina high school senior tries to come to terms with sex and her place in the world in the wake of her best friend's unplanned pregnancy, another friend's coming out, and her mother's double standard for her and her brother) and Jessie Ann Foley's THE CARNIVAL AT BRAY(a quiet but powerful small press title about a girl who leaves her Chicago home and and her beloved grandmother and uncle for a seaside village in Ireland following her mother's remarriage). These two were among my top five reads of the year. Others that I reviewed for The Pirate Tree and especially appreciated were:
Coe Booth, KINDA LIKE BROTHERS--MG novel featuring 11-year-old Jarrett's struggles in summer school and with a new foster brother who is much cooler than he is.
Maria E. Andreu, THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY--YA novel about an academically gifted high school senior, an immigrant from Argentina whose undocumented status means that, unlike her friends who don't know she's undocumented, she cannot go to college or get a legal job.
Gail Giles, GIRLS LIKE US--YA novel about two developmentally disabled high school graduates who learn to help each other, trust the right people, and that they deserve better than the lives they've already had.
Lyn Miller-Lachmann Gringolandia (Curbstone Pres/Northwestern University Press, 2009) Rogue (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2013) Surviving Santiago (Running Press Kids, 2015) translator, The World in a Second (Enchanted Lion, 2015) www.lynmillerlachmann.com www.thepiratetree.com
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Received on Mon 08 Dec 2014 03:09:50 PM CST
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:09:30 -0500
At the risk of tipping my hand as a Cybils panelist, I'd like to call attention to the two other general YA fiction titles that are on the Morris list and particularly impressed me--Isabel Quintero's GABI: A GIRL IN PIECES (a year in which a Latina high school senior tries to come to terms with sex and her place in the world in the wake of her best friend's unplanned pregnancy, another friend's coming out, and her mother's double standard for her and her brother) and Jessie Ann Foley's THE CARNIVAL AT BRAY(a quiet but powerful small press title about a girl who leaves her Chicago home and and her beloved grandmother and uncle for a seaside village in Ireland following her mother's remarriage). These two were among my top five reads of the year. Others that I reviewed for The Pirate Tree and especially appreciated were:
Coe Booth, KINDA LIKE BROTHERS--MG novel featuring 11-year-old Jarrett's struggles in summer school and with a new foster brother who is much cooler than he is.
Maria E. Andreu, THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY--YA novel about an academically gifted high school senior, an immigrant from Argentina whose undocumented status means that, unlike her friends who don't know she's undocumented, she cannot go to college or get a legal job.
Gail Giles, GIRLS LIKE US--YA novel about two developmentally disabled high school graduates who learn to help each other, trust the right people, and that they deserve better than the lives they've already had.
Lyn Miller-Lachmann Gringolandia (Curbstone Pres/Northwestern University Press, 2009) Rogue (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2013) Surviving Santiago (Running Press Kids, 2015) translator, The World in a Second (Enchanted Lion, 2015) www.lynmillerlachmann.com www.thepiratetree.com
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