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All About the Girls: Titles Featuring Young Women in Peril | In the Margins
Inspired by Kelly Jensen’s series, “About the Girls” on the “Stacked” blog, librarian Amy Cheney highlights recent works that feature young women dealing with tough stuff, including sex trafficking, incarceration, and self-harm.
Somewhere Between
Given that there are six million adoptees in America, this is an important film even though issues of identity are examined only as far as these teens will allow.
In the Margins Announces First Social Justice/Advocacy Book Award
Bryan Stevenson has won the In the Margins Social Justice/Advocacy Book Award for his 2014 title Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, which traces his career of serving the imprisoned and his fight to change injustices in the system.
Top 2015 Titles for Youth in Custody—or in Your Libraries
After careful consideration and heated debate, the In the Margins committee has selected its best fiction and nonfiction, top 10, and overall selection list of 34 titles. On February 18, it will announce the newest recognition—the Advocacy Award—for authors.
Burning Down the House: The End of Youth Prison
Bernstein outlines the history of juvenile "reform" schools, the rise and fall of the rehabilitative model, and the reality of what happens behind bars to already traumatized teens: further physical, sexual, and mental abuse...
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
What is the one commonality of people on death row? If the victim is white, the perpetrator is 11 times more likely to be condemned to die than if the victim is black...
Books to Increase Awareness of the Cycles of Poverty, Race, and Incarceration
By listening to the voices of those who have experienced racism, time in prison, and life on the streets, readers of these titles can begin to learn how to break the cycle, and be inspired by those have.
'Rude Cakes' and 'Polar Bear's Underwear' Rule at the Chronicle Spring 2015 Preview
Librarians and booksellers flocked to the Spring 2015 Preview at the Chronicle headquarters in San Francisco in early October.
Relevancy Trumps All for Reluctant Readers | YA Underground
Juvenile services librarian Amy Cheney posits that the winning recipe for books that entice reluctant readers includes a great cover, lots of action (real action!), relevancy, and an easy to read page layout.
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