YA Heads Up; ‘If I Stay’
Weeper alert. I usually don’t have the patience for this relatively new genre of a dying or dead teenage girl looking back on her life, yet… Gayle Forman had me at hello in If I Stay; complicated relationships, Gen X parents, Pacific Northwest setting and a hot, sensitive, cool boyfriend add up to a story that sneaks into your heart.
Dude, I cried.
[Ed note: Catherine Hardwicke, director of Twilight, has signed on to direct the movie of If I Stay, the author’s second YA novel, after Sisters in Sanity. The book is also the #1 choice by independent booksellers on their Kids’ Indie Next List).
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Featured on Weekend Edition, Sunday – Claudette Colvin
In 1955 a fifteen-year-old Black girl was arrested when she refused to give up her bus seat to a White woman nine months before Rosa Parks. This is her story:
Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin, by Margot Adler
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