| Love & Profanity: A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life Contributor(s): Hanel, Rachael (Author), Herbach, Geoff (Author), Duthie, Kasandra (Author) |
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ISBN: 1630790125 ISBN-13: 9781630790127 Publisher: Switch Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover Published: January 2015 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Nonfiction | Social Topics - Bullying - Young Adult Nonfiction | Family - Marriage & Divorce - Young Adult Nonfiction | Family - Parents |
| Dewey: 305.235 |
| LCCN: 2014032797 |
| Age Level: 14-18 |
| Grade Level: 9-13 |
| Lexile Measure: 900(Not Available) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5" W x 7.6" L (0.75 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Teen |
| Features: Ikids, Index, Price on Product |
| Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2014 Publishers Weekly 01/19/2015 Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2015 - Recommended - Better Than Most School Library Journal 02/01/2015 pg. 127 Booklist 02/15/2015 pg. 70 Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2015 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Love & Profanity features more than forty brief, brilliant, and unforgettable true stories from writers both renowned and on the rise. Discover strange and surprising scenes of people coming of age amidst the everyday intensity of teenage life. Witness transformative moments arising from the mundane. Behold the young adult in full splendor and horror, bursting with love and profanity. |
Contributor Bio(s): Childers, Sarah Beth: - Sarah Beth Childers went to a tiny Christian school in Huntington, West Virginia, where she played basketball but never made a shot, ran track but never won a race, and played an old British woman who got strangled in a high school play. She now lives in Richmond, Indiana, where her cat pulled down the living room curtains so she could get a better view of passing cars and her Boston Terrier pried open a gap in the fence so she could play with the dog next door. Sarah Beth wrote about her and her mom s teenage years in her memoir, Shake Terribly the Earth: Stories from an Appalachian Family.Anderson, Kyra: - Kyra Anderson lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, writer/illustrator David Milgrim, their dogs, Beegu and Havi, and their and 13-year-old child who loves all things potato, math, gaming, absurdity, and computers.Brown, Aaron J.: - Aaron Brown won the Weekly Reader National Invention Contest in 2nd Grade. Having peaked early, he retired to write his memoirs in the mighty pine forest of Northern Minnesota. He writes stuff for things in places you find on the Internet, most notably his blog MinnesotaBrown.com.Scieszka, Jon: - Jon Scieszka was born in Flint, Michigan. The second oldest, and nicest, of six boys. No girls. Author of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs!, The Stinky Cheeseman, Knucklehead, and a mess of others. New series in the works with Abrams about Frank Einstein, kid science genius. With robots. And a chimpanzee.Sellers, Heather: - Heather Sellers is a professor of English. Her books include the memoir You Don t Look Like Anyone I Know, the short story collection Georgia Under Water, a children s book Spike and Cubby s Ice Cream Island Adventure, three volumes of poetry, and three books on the craft of writing. She loves to ride her Bianchi bicycle, preferably in the rain. Heather was born and raised in Florida.Minor, Kyle: - Kyle Minor lives in Indiana with his wife and two sons. His most recent TV series was not picked up by a network. His most recent book is Praying Drunk, a collection of short fiction.Bruchac, Joseph: - Joseph Bruchac lives in the Adirondack mountain foothills town of Greenfield Center, New York, in the same house where his maternal grandparents raised him. Much of his writing draws on that land and his Abenaki ancestry. He has been a storyteller-in-residence for Native American organizations and schools throughout the continent, including the Institute of Alaska Native Arts and the Onondaga Nation School.Alexander, Kwame: - Kwame Alexander is the award-winning author of 18 books, including The Crossover and He Said She Said. When he's not running two literacy organizations, Book-in-a-Day, and LEAP for Ghana, he sits in his study writing love poems for his wife and daughters.Weaver, Will: - Will Weaver was born in Minnesota farm country. In college, by having too much fun and not paying attention, he accidentally became an English major. Since there was no escape from good books, he was forced to become an author. Of his many novels, his personal favorite is Memory Boy.Kim, Patti: - Patti Kim was born in Pusan, Korea, and immigrated to the United States on Christmas of 1974 with her mother, father, and older sister. At the age of five, she thought she was a writer and scribbled gibberish all over the pages of her mother's Korean-English dictionary and got in big trouble for it. Her scribbling eventually paid off. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland. She is the author of A CAB CALLED RELIABLE. She lives with her husband and two daughters who give her plenty to write about every day. This is her first children's book.McGhee, Alison: - Alison McGhee writes in all forms for all ages. She's the #1 New York Times bestselling author of books such as Shadow Baby and Someday and a slew of others. She lives in Minneapolis and Vermont, is irresistibly drawn to the color green, and would be happy to eat potstickers every day.Chen, Da: - Da Chen is a New York Times bestselling author. He s published seven books, including Colors of the Mountain, China's Son, and Wandering Warrior. Da was born in a tiny village in Southern China. He now lives in Southern California where he also writes TV shows and film scripts. Daily he runs on the beautiful beach and swims in the sea.Bruchac, Joseph: - Joseph Bruchac lives in the Adirondack mountain foothills town of Greenfield Center, New York, in the same house where his maternal grandparents raised him. Much of his writing draws on that land and his Abenaki ancestry. He has been a storyteller-in-residence for Native American organizations and schools throughout the continent, including the Institute of Alaska Native Arts and the Onondaga Nation School.Chen, Da: - Da Chen is a New York Times bestselling author. He's published seven books, including Colors of the Mountain, China's Son, and Wandering Warrior. Da was born in a tiny village in Southern China. He now lives in Southern California where he also writes TV shows and film scripts. Daily he runs on the beautiful beach and swims in the sea.Gunderson, Jessica: - Jessica Gunderson grew up in the small town of Washburn, North Dakota. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of North Dakota and an MFA in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She has written more than fifty books for young readers. Her book Ropes of Revolution won the 2008 Moonbeam Award for best graphic novel. She currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband and cat.Brandt, Melissa: - Melissa Brandt is an educator and a screenwriter with a script called Chicken Day that is moving ever closer to being realized on the screen. She lives in Rochester, Minnesota, and loves to travel, read, and secretly record the conversations of her teenage daughter and son. She later uses these conversations in her stories. Seriously, she's not to be trusted.Cistaro, Melissa: - Melissa Cistaro is a writer and bookseller at the legendary bookstore Book Passage in Marin County, California. Writing is the only way she has been able to make sense of her world--both past and present. Her memoir Pieces of My Mother will be published in spring of 2015.Sellers, Heather: - Heather Sellers is a professor of English. Her books include the memoir You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know, the short story collection Georgia Under Water, a children's book Spike and Cubby's Ice Cream Island Adventure, three volumes of poetry, and three books on the craft of writing. She loves to ride her Bianchi bicycle, preferably in the rain. Heather was born and raised in Florida.Fajardo, Anika: - Anika Fajardo was born in Colombia and raised in Minnesota, and her writing about that experience has appeared in various publications. She changed schools in seventh grade but survivedHanel, Rachael Teresa: - Rachael Hanel was born in Minnesota, where she still resides. She's the author of We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger's Daughter, and you're likely to find her roaming around cemeteries.Kim, Patricia Hee: - Patti Kim was born in Busan, Korea. Raised in Maryland on both sides of the tracks. Author of A Cab Called Reliable and Here I Am. Married with kids, but can't stop writing about her childhood.Speed Shaskan, Trisha Sue: - Trisha Speed Shaskan was born and raised in Winona, Minnesota, where she waterskied on the Mississippi River, played basketball, and skateboarded. She has written more than forty books for children and taught creative writing to children and teens. Trisha received a 2012 Minnesota State Artist's Initiative Grant. She won the 2009 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers, Loft Award in Children's Literature/Older Children. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband, Stephen Shaskan, who is a children's book author and illustrator.Balcerzak, Kara Garbe: - Kara Garbe Balcerzak grew up in Springfield, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Most of her writing is about living in a mud house in Burkina Faso, where she was a Peace Corps volunteer after college. Kara has seen Live in concert more than a dozen times since 1997, most recently in 2013. She and Alma are still good friends.Brezenoff, Steve: - Steve Brezenoff is the author of more than fifty middle-grade chapter books, including the Field Trip Mysteries series, the Ravens Pass series of thrillers, and the Return to the Titanic series. He's also written three young-adult novels, Guy in Real Life; Brooklyn, Burning; and The Absolute Value of -1. In his spare time, he enjoys video games, cycling, and cooking. Steve lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Beth, and their son and daughter. .Edwards, Clint: - Clint Edwards hasn't crapped his pants since freshman year, but tomorrow is another day. You can read more about Clint at No Idea What I'm Doing: A Daddy Blog. It's been featured on Good Morning America, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. But that's not the real reason to read it. The real reason is that it will give you a glimpse into the steamy world of adult married life with children, and because he sometimes writes about farts.Herbach, Geoff: - Geoff Herbach's young adult novels, Stupid Fast, Nothing Special, I'm With Stupid, and Fat Boy vs. The Cheerleaders, have been listed in the year's best by many associations who seem to know what they're talking about. Prior to writing YA, he published a literary novel, The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg, wrote comedic radio and stage shows, and traveled the country telling weird stories in rock clubs. He teaches creative writing at Minnesota State, Mankato, and lives in a log cabin with a very tall wife named Steph.Buckle, Jackie: - Jackie Buckle lives in England and is author of Half My Facebook Friends are Ferrets. She doesn't have a ferret but would like one. She does have two slightly crazy teenage daughters and an even crazier big furry dog.Heide, Melody L.: - Melody L. Heide grew up moving between New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania but now calls Minnesota home. She writes a lot about the transient life, and her work has appeared in numerous publications.Evans, Dayna: - Dayna Evans is a writer from Philadelphia who moved to New York when she was 17. She likes to eat doughnuts and travel, best of all when these things happen at the same time.Gottlieb, Andrew C.: - Andrew Gottlieb lives in Irvine, California, and spends more time than he should letting fly fishing get in the way of his writing. Remarkably, he now helps raise two teenagers. He prefers road trips to work of any sort. Find him at www.andrewcgottlieb.com.Macinnis, Margaret: - Margaret MacInnis holds MFA degrees from the University of Iowa and Queens University of Charlotte. Her essays have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Brevity, Crab Orchard Review, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, River Teeth, Tampa Review, and elsewhere. |
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