Re: [LM_NET] LM_NET Digest - 21 Feb 2010 - Special issue (#2010-331)

[LIZANELL BOMAN <lizanellb@MSN.COM>]

You mentioned Alex Flinn's Breathing Underwater, but not the follow up from the 
girls point of view, Diva.  That might be on purpose as the violence from the first 
novel is peripheral in the second, but I think the aftermath it shows is worth 
discussing.  

In addition, Flinn's titles Nothing to Lose and  Fade to Black also deal with 
bullying and teen violence.

Others that might be worth including:

Gym Candy by Carl Deuker (which deals with steroid use and 'roid rage.)

Boot Camp by Todd Strasser (a slightly different take, on the abuses perpetrated 
against teens by adults in 'reformation' attempts such as the boot camp of the 
title)

Give a boy a gun by Todd Strasser

Jumped by Rita Williams Garcia

Hate List by Jennifer Brown

and a wonderful play called
Bang Bang You're Dead  
which you can actually download (and it was made into a movie which aired on 
Showtime)

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/7/25/1293867/Bang%20Bang%20You%27re%20Dead.zip





Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,

Are a substantial world, both pure and good.

Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,

Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

William Wordsworth


> Date:    Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:03:28 -0600
> From:    Naomi Bates <nbates@NISDTX.ORG>
> Subject: Booklist of Teen Violence Awarness Month (Feb)
> 
> Here's a booklist of YA fiction that deals with teen violence awareness,
> which is this month.  I've posted this as well as additional links and
> stats on my blog.  Hope you can use this!  And if I'm missing any other
> titles that deal with this, please reply and share with the listserv : )
> 
> Bad Boy Can be Good for a Girl by Tonya Lee Stone
> Things change by Patrick Jones
> Guyaholic by Carolyn Mackler
> Beastly by Alex Flinn
> Twisted
> Honey baby sweetheart by Deb Calletti
> Playing with Matches by Brian Katcher
> Played by Dana Davidson
> Wild Roses by Deb Calletti
> Inexcusable by Chris Lynch
> Breaking up is Hard to Do short story collection edited by Nikki Burnham
> Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
> Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
> Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn
> Touch by Francine Prose
> Story of Girl by Sara Zarr
> Who am I Without Him? short story collection by Sharon Flake
> Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
> 
> -- 
> Naomi Bates
> Librarian, Northwest High School 
> Justin TX
> www.naomibates.blogspot.com
> http://www.nisdtx.org/120820731141528687/site/default.asp
> nbates@nisdtx.org
> 817.215.0203
>
                                          
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