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How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity
Contributor(s): Cart, Michael (Author), Block, Francesca Lia (Author), Levithan, David (Author)

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ISBN: 0061154989     ISBN-13: 9780061154980
Publisher: Harperteen
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2009
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Annotation: Some of today's boldest voices in YA fiction offer a modern look at the many definitions of love and relationships, in this collection of 12 stories.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Short Stories
- Young Adult Fiction | Lgbt
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - General (see Also Headings Under Family)
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2008051769
Age Level: 14-UP
Grade Level: 9-UP
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8" L (0.77 lbs) 368 pages
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards, Finalist, Children/Young Adult, 2009
Review Citations: Kirkus Review - Children 09/01/2009
School Library Journal 09/01/2009 pg. 152
Booklist 10/15/2009 pg. 43
Romantic Times 12/01/2009 pg. 74 - Excellent
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2009 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Multicultural Review 08/01/2010 pg. 73
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2010 - Recommended, Satisfactory
 
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Publisher Description:

A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had an accidental romance. And a forgotten mother writes a poignant letter to the teenage daughter she hasn't seen for fourteen years.

Poised between the past and the future are the stories of now. In nontraditional narratives, short stories, and brief graphics, tales of anticipation and regret, eagerness and confusion present distinctively modern views of love, sexuality, and gender identification. Together, they reflect the vibrant possibilities available for young people learning to love others--and themselves--in today's multifaceted and quickly changing world.


Contributor Bio(s): Cart, Michael: -

Michael Cart is a writer, a lecturer, a consultant, and a nationally recognized expert in YA literature. He is the former director of the Beverly Hills (California) Public Library and a past president of the Young Adult Library Services Association, and his column "Carte Blanche" appears monthly in Booklist magazine.

He is the author or editor of twenty books, including the gay coming-of-age novel My Father's Scar, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; From Romance to Realism: 50 Years of Growth and Change in Young Adult Literature; and--with Christine A. Jenkins--The Heart Has Its Reasons, a critical history of young adult literature with gay/lesbian/queer content. His many anthologies include Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth, Necessary Noise: Stories About Our Families as They Really Are, and How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity.

In 2008, he became the first recipient of the YALSA/Greenwood Publishing Group Service to Young Adults Achievement Award, and in 2000, he received the Grolier Foundation Award for his contribution to the stimulation and guidance of reading by young people. Mr. Cart lives in Columbus, Indiana.

Block, Francesca Lia: -

Francesca Lia Block, winner of the prestigious Margaret A. Edwards Award, is the author of many acclaimed and bestselling books, including Weetzie Bat; the book collections Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books and Roses and Bones: Myths, Tales, and Secrets; the illustrated novella House of Dolls; the vampire romance novel Pretty Dead; and the gothic werewolf novel The Frenzy. Her work is published around the world.

Peters, Julie Anne: - Julie Anne Peters lives in Lakewood, Colorado.Boylan, Jennifer Finney: -

Jennifer Finney Boylan is the author of more than a dozen books, including a bestselling memoir, a collection of short stories entitled Remind Me to Murder You Later, and three novels for adults. Her novel Getting In won the Alex Award from the American Library Association in 1998 for an adult novel with special appeal to young adult readers. Since 1988 she has been a professor of English at Colby College.

Jenny Boylan lives at the end of a dirt road in Maine with a Sasquatch, a wind elemental, two weredogs, and a leprechaun.

Levithan, David: -

David Levithan is the critically acclaimed author of eight books for teens, many of which have appeared on ALA's Best Books for Young Adults list, including Boy Meets Boy, for which he won a Lambda Literary Award.

Koertge, Ron: -

Christine Heppermann and Ron Koertge are the authors of acclaimed young adult books and are writing for young readers for the first time. After meeting through Hamline University's MFA program, they decided to collaborate. Christine lives in New York, and Ron lives in California, so they work most of their magic long-distance.

Donoghue, Emma: -

Born in Dublin in 1969, EMMA DONOGHUE is a novelist, screenwriter and playwright who lives in Canada. Her novel Room won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canada/Caribbean) and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes, selling more than two million copies. Donoghue scripted the Canadian-Irish film of Room which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Her fiction (short and long) ranges from the contemporary (Stir-fry, Hood, Landing, Touchy Subjects) to the historical (Slammerkin, The Sealed Letter, Astray, Frog Music). Donoghue's books for young readers are The Lotterys Plus One and The Lotterys More Or Less. Her last novel for adults, The Wonder, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.




 
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