In a time and place without moral conscience, fourteen-year-old Ansel knows what is right and what is true. But it is dangerous to choose honesty, and so he chooses silence. Now an innocent man is dead, and Ansel feels the burden of his decision. He must also bear the pain of losing a friend, his fa...
Places I Never Meant To Be is a collection of young adult short stories and essays that contain material that is often banned by schools and libraries. The stories deal with issues surrounding love, race, class, sex/sexuality, illness/dying, abuse, bullying, homelessness, and moral dilemmas. All of ...
12/4/13 ** If you use mentor texts in your classroom, you'll return to this one over and over.* figurative language* strong themes* lovely illustrations* poignant ending* exemplary tall taleI notice something new every time I read it.
was really looking forward to it, but the stories were a bit of a let down - most of them seemed incomplete and needing something. the best part was the reflections by each author at the end of each story about their experiences with censorship
This is a Newbery Medal winner. This is a children's book. This is essential reading. I was ready to move beyond the biographies of Frederick Douglass and others to search for more depth into the day to day existence of the American slave, and yes, in this book for children, I found it. To Be A Slav...
to sum up the book I'm gonna use two quotes from it:"While the subject matter is lynching, on a deeper level, this novel is about identity. Whom and what we identify ourselves with determines our characters, determines who we are, and what we do." ~Julius Lester"....the racial divides in the United ...
Whoaaa flashback. I totally forgot about this book until two seconds ago when I saw it on someone else's page. It was one of my favorite books in, like, fourth grade. I read it for an Egypt project and I made this epic diorama for it. It was pretty sweet. Anyway, I remember really liking this book. ...
Short, but lyrical, this little retelling of the story of Cupid and Pysche is funny, charming and (when I say this I mean the characters' personalities and feelings, not the whole I'm a greek Goddess angle) relatable.It's a little gem. Read it..
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