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Once upon a time that was not so very long ago, a family was described as a man, a woman, and their offspring. That was what families were. These ten stories talk about families the way they really are.
Siblings coping with their younger brother's overdose. A girl terrified of her older sister's dual personality. A boy trying to adjust to his life with two mothers. A father visiting his son on death row. These are stories of today's families -- fractured, blended, at risk, non-traditional, and some that are even still nuclear.
Noted anthologist Michael Cart asked celebrated young adult authors the question "What does 'family' mean today?" The ten stories in this anthology provide some illuminating -- and sometimes surprising -- answers. Here family is defined by the connections between all kinds of people -- and the necessary noise they make.
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Former director of the Beverly Hills (California) Public Library and a past president of the Young Adult Library Services Association, Michael Cart is a writer, lecturer, and consultant. His column "Carte Blanche" appears monthly in Booklist magazine, and his author interview television program In Print is broadcast nationally on the Dish Satellite Network.
He is the author or editor of ten books, including From Romance to Realism: 50 Years of Growth and Change in Young Adult Literature. Mr. Cart's young adult novel My Father's Scar and his anthologies Tomorrowland and Love and Sex were all selected as ALA Best Books for Young Adults.
The winner of the 2000 Grolier Foundation Award for his contribution to the stimulation and guidance of reading by young people, Mr. Cart teaches young adult literature at UCLA and lives in northern California.
Gr. 9-12. Some of YA fiction's best voices are collected in this anthology of 11 stories about what it means, these days, to be in a family. The definition of that experience is complicated: in Walter Dean Myers' "Visitor," it encompasses a death-row meeting between father and son. In compiler Cart's "Sailing Away," it means two boys' friendship and romantic love for one another. Teens will relate to these varying visions and see themselves in the protagonists, even though in two of the best stories the central characters aren't even high-school students. Lois Lowry's hilarious and charming "Snowbound" stars a college freshman who has brought home her ne'er-do-well "minimalist" boyfriend (who, as part of his minimalism, does not wear underwear). Norma Howe's story features two college-age siblings (one of them married). But teens won't care, because Howe gets to the very heart of sibling rivalry and the difficulties of expressing (and, for that matter, feeling) familial love. Cart's informative introduction about the evolving family sets the tone for this first-rate collection, on the leading edge of YA fiction. John Green
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- PublisherHarperTempest
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0060275006
- ISBN 13 9780060275006
- BindingLibrary Binding
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
- IllustratorNoruzi Charlotte
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