Rainbow Party
website accessibility-children's literature: A great book Another suggested book in my YA lit class is a controvercial one- "Rainbow Party" by Paul Ruditis. I had never heard of this one to, and had to order it- Borders will not carry it in their stores. If you want to get it for your teen, a WARNING ...it is about sex. And not just sex- a bunch of teens are planning a 'rainbow party'. So? A rainbow party consists of 6 girls and 6 guys. Each girl wears a different lipstick color (red, yellow, orange, green, purple and blue) and they take turns giving each boy oral sex so they have a 'rainbow' around their....well, you get it. http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2005-05-22-rainbow-usat_x.htm is a general article (many others are similar) on the book. Of course the book (and its language, which I have heard 14-year-olds say many times) will be controvercial. I found it interesting, not that it was particularily well-written (it isn't) or the characters interesting (except for the sex-ed teacher, they are superficial), or the language shocking to me. It was that, as a 40-year-old who has been around, I had never heard of a rainbow party, and to find out that this is a supposed growing practice among young teens (according to Oprah). Yikes-and I wasn't allowed to even date til I was 16..... Anyways, it is an interesting book, and how to handle this in a library setting would be interesting......cannot wait til we have our lecture on banned books in class!!! When I was 14, "Forever" by Judy Blume was the book to sneak home to read. Seems tame in comparison.....
A great book
website accessibility-children's literature I have a Young Adult Lit course this semester, and one of the ladies in my reading group recommended a great book to me. I had never heard of it, but as she is a teacher, she has more experience with childrens' lit than I do as a LIS student. The book is "The Giver" by Lois Lowry , and it won the Newbery Award in 1994. The site for Ms. Lowry is www.loislowry.com and is a very user-friendly site. What a interesting book! http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/guides/give.html is a good site in explaining the book....has comments by the author, including audio...and suggestions for the classroom. Another good one is http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/giver.html. Check out this book- I really enjoyed it, and will use this in the future.
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Been out of commission for awhile...
Boy, has this been a rough year for me so far! Right after my birthday (Jan. 23), I got HIT by the flu! I was out of work and school for 2 weeks, which REALLY set me back. I had the flu, no appetite at all (OK- that was a good thing- I lost 12 lbs), and I had an extreme case of tonsilitis. I also had insomnia very bad- I did not sleep a wink for 4 days running. Well, I slowly started to get better, but with so much homework to catch up on (thank goodness my profs are very nice and understanding) and being so far behind in income, I was working 6 days a week and trying to catch up on my work and SURPRIZE I got the flu AGAIN last week-end, just in time to complicate my midterm!!! I still have this annoying cough and stuffy nose, but I took some more time off work to hopefully shake this thing for good!! UGGG!!! Anyways, this is why I have not done any more enteries since my first.
