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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780977084449
ISBN number: 0977084442
Label: 826 Books
Manufacturer: 826 Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 864
Printing Date: January 17, 2007
Publishing house: 826 Books
Age index: Young Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 971220
Studio: 826 Books
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This anthology collects nine exceptional novels that were written by high school students from New York City during the summer of 2005 in 826NYC's Young Adult Writers' Colony. Ranging from comedic, to fiercly political, to deeply personal, these novels are immensely entertaining and forecast a bright future for this brand new generation of novelists. As novelist Richard Powers says in his foreword, 'There comes a time when we must decide whether we love the world enough to hand it over to its subsequent lover . . . [This is a book of] nine worlds that nine people could not find and so had to make themselves. Here it is before you: how the story ends this time. And how it starts again.'
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Ok, so I'm a young writer. I plan on becomeing an old writer too, once I grow up. I read this book because I love to read things by kids my age (can we still be called kids?). I was not at all disapointed. This is a truely wonderful book. My favorite story, I must say, is the deeply complicated and emotional, "Mistaken Identity" written by Sarah Meira Rosenberg, who started it when she was in fith grade. It tells the story of Anna and her school when they are kiddneaped while on a feild trip. Anna is already a very interesting and emotional kid, but add to that the mysterious Spencer Silver, the genious Daniel Jones and a host of other...special children, the book had my attention from page one. Sarah Meira Rosenberg, if you read this, I beg you to hurry it up with that sequel, becuae I am DYING to read it! I highly recomend this book!
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I admit I'm partial -- I'm the father of one of the nine authors represented in this anthology. But think about the fact that these nine novels were written by high school kids age 15-17 in the span of eight weeks over a summer. They churned out 4,000 words a week each, used a workshop format to review each other's efforts, and refined as they went along. They are very different books with very different voices, bound, literally and figuratively, by 826NYC's outstanding program that I refer to as "literacy for the literate."
If you are an adult (not most of these kids' target audience -- the assignment, after all, was to write a young adult novel) and you are at all concerned about the art of writing among the young, take heart. These are not adult takes on what kids think and feel -- they are reports from the emotional front. The novels are full of humour and empathy and vision that belies the ages of the authors.
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