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ABSOLUTELY SMASHING LIST OF TITLES https://www.nationalbook.org/2020-national-book-awards-longlist-for-young-peoples-literature/">https://www.nationalbook.org/2020-nati...
Love to see LIFTING AS WE CLIMB, an outstanding YA NF title from @freeblackgirl here. YA NF often gets left out of serious awards contention so it& #39;s great to see it included here. It& #39;s an accessible yet challenging text for teen readers about Black women& #39;s part/work in suffrage.
OF COURSE y& #39;all have heard me shouting from the rooftops about WE ARE NOT YET FREE by @tracichee for months. A book about Japanese-American teens resisting and forging bonds during Internment, it& #39;s genuinely a masterpiece and a book you just cannot shake that is so IMMEDIATE.
KING AND THE DRAGONFLIES @kacencallender is a game changer in MG, it absolutely raises the bar. It& #39;s about toxic masculinity, queerness and understanding yourself, grief and hope, family, racism and assumptions ,and growth. And it& #39;s all done flawlessly. The CRAFT! The SKILL!
APPLE (SKIN TO THE CORE) by Eric Gansworth ..........
Look. LOOK. I remember the day I first heard the news @LevineQuerido was going to happen, when they announced their goals as a publisher and I KNEW it was gonna shake things up in publishing and...this book is THAT.
Look. LOOK. I remember the day I first heard the news @LevineQuerido was going to happen, when they announced their goals as a publisher and I KNEW it was gonna shake things up in publishing and...this book is THAT.
I think perhaps we can all agree I have read ... a few YA books. I have NEVER read anything like this book. Honestly. The way Gansworth uses the poetry format. The incorporation of illustrations. How this is a memoir...but also a memory. https://www.levinequerido.com/apple ">https://www.levinequerido.com/apple&quo...
Rarely if ever have I read a YA book less interested in the white gaze. This is not a book FOR white readers. They are welcomed to it, if they want, but it is not FOR them. It& #39;s entirely about decolonizing the narrative form & function of YA. Reading it is genuinely EXHILARATING.
sometimes while reading APPLE (SKIN TO THE CORE) I would just stop, set the book down, and PROCESS it, let it sink in. My gosh, I love when that happens. I love when there is so much in a book my brain has to...pause. That& #39;s how strong this is as a work.
