WARNING: ACCORDING TO SOME PARENTS IN TOWNS ACROSS AMERICA THESE BOOKS ARE NOT APPROPRIATE FOR YOU “Vulgar…” “Inappropriate…” “Damaging…” Summer: for some it means a time to work, for others a time to play, and for many it’s a time, after 9 months of assigned school reading, to choose your own books, to decide [...]
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Whatever You Do, Don’t Read These Books
Posted: June 22, 2009 by jdapier in The Loft, Young Adult BooksTags: Baby Be-Bop, banned books, Cecily von Ziegesar, Chinese Handcuffs, Chris Crutcher, Francesca Lia Block, Gossip Girl, sherman alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Weetzie Bat, Whale Talk
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Sherman Alexie’s Part-Time Indian Banned In Oregon School
Posted: February 1, 2009 by jdapier in The Loft, Young Adult BooksTags: book banning, odyssey award, sherman alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie’s website reported recently that The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the winner of the 2008 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and all-around fantastic read, has been banned in a high school in Prineville, Oregon. A quick Google Maps search shows that Prineville is approximately 370 miles from Spokane, WA, [...]
It’s Absolutely True – Alexie wins!
Posted: November 14, 2007 by Christie in Loft Book Reviews, Read On!, Young Adult BooksTags: National Book Award, sherman alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, ya
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is this year’s winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. (Little, Brown, 2007) Arnold Spirit, aka Junior, is born with “brain grease” (hydrocephalus, or excessive accumulation of fluid on the brain) which in his words “mucked up the works.” Junior has 10 [...]
