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Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes is a young adult fiction novel by Chris Crutcher. It has been recognized by the American Library Association as one of the "Best of the Best Books for Young Adults". [1] It is also one of fifty books on Young Adult Library Services Association's The Ultimate Teen Bookshelf. [2] From the back of the 2003 Harper Teen ...
Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way.
[2] The book has been translated and adapted by women's groups around the world and is available in 33 languages. [3] Sales for all the books exceed four million copies. [4] The New York Times has called the seminal book "America's best-selling book on all aspects of women's health" and a "feminist classic". [5]
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls is a 1994 book written by Mary Pipher. This book examines the effects of societal pressures on American adolescent girls, and utilizes many case studies from the author's experience as a therapist . [ 1 ]
Deadline reported in November 2022 that the novel would be adapted into a television series for channel FX. [6] In November 2022, David Corenswet was reported tapped to star as the male lead in the pilot, with deadline describing his character 'Christopher Skye' as an charismatic but troubled movie star involved in an enigmatic, futuristic dating experiment.
What Katy Did is an 1872 children's novel written by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey under her pen name "Susan Coolidge". It follows the adventures of a twelve-year-old American girl, Katy Carr, and her family who live in the fictional lakeside Ohio town of Burnet in the 1860s.
The ease of her storytelling here is breathtaking, but almost unnoticeable because, rather like Rebecca, Tyler never calls attention to what she does. Late in the novel, Rebecca observes that her younger self had wanted to believe "that there were grander motivations in history than mere family and friends, mere domestic happenstance."