Posts contained in the “Amer. Indian/First Nations” category:

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie)

Update as of 26 October 2011: This book continues to be controversial. Only this past spring, I was asked to help fight a push to not just remove this book from the twelfth grade curriculum of a public high school, but to remove the book from the school library, as well. The irony is that …read more…

Published on: 8 April 2011 by Ken

Categorized under: Amer. Indian/First Nations, Book Review, Contemporary Fiction, Disabled, Graphic Novel/Story, Multicultural Literature, Parenting Issues, Publishing Issues, Teaching Issues, Writing Issues, YA Literature • Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Meet Kaya: An American Girl (Janet Shaw)

There are times when the most you can hope for a book is that you can read it, set it aside, and not completely hate it. So I must provide a caveat: I thought this would be one of those books. It was with some dismay that I found myself faced with the prospect of …read more…

Published on: 8 December 2009 by Ken

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