¡Hola a todos! Another month has passed, and I just want to let you know that I am extremely grateful to share all of these resources with you. I really hope they are of use to you.
– Our friends at Remezcla shared a preview of the Latin American women featured in Rad Women Worldwide by Kate Schatz.
Our wonderful local partners in crime, the staff at Bookworks, are hosting a discussion this week with Canadian author Anthony De Sa on Thursday, April 10, 2014, at 7:00 p.m. De Sa will discuss his book Kicking the Sky, an adult novel but one with major young adult crossover because the main character is a young person. It takes place in the Portuguese neighborhoods of Toronto. The novel is hybrid, filling an odd space between fiction and non-fiction, adult and young-adult. Although based on gruesome events, the novel is carried out through a naive point of view of an adolescent protagonist.
This is certainly not for the faint of heart. It’s a book that may be appropriate for high school audiences, which, despite the subject matter, is not altogether surprising given that the author himself is a high school teacher in Toronto. Continue reading
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