Let’s face it, there are a MASSIVE number of YA speculative fiction novels. Speculative fiction is any story that takes an impossible premise and keeps asking “What if?” until you’ve got an entire book. This genre encompasses everything from science fiction to historical revision to the ever so popular dystopian novel. And yet, even withContinue reading “7 Problems with YA Speculative Fiction”
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YA vs. Middle Grades Literature
After spending a week reading two middle grades novels, Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes and Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds, I have found that middle grades novels are different than their Young Adult counterparts– but not necessarily in the ways you would expect. In some respects, middle grades novels are “easier” to readContinue reading “YA vs. Middle Grades Literature”
Spine Poetry
Fathers and Sons Look both ways ghost boys No Ashes in the Fire Elegy Hello, the roses So my book collection is constantly in flux. I haven’t lived in the same place for more than a year for the last four years and I am moving again at the end of this year. I tryContinue reading “Spine Poetry”
YA Literacy and Literature
Write/share definitions of literacy and YA literature As we have been discussing in class, literacy is so much more than reading words on a page. Literacy encompasses our cultural awareness and understanding, our personal and professional relationships, even the way we choose to present ourselves through personal style. We “read a room” socially in theContinue reading “YA Literacy and Literature”
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