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Category: Young Adult

IBBY Review: The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten

The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B, by Teresa Toten (Doubleday (Canada), 2013 / Delacorte Press (US), 2015) - IBBY 2015 Outstanding Books For and About Young People with Disabilities

I Am Not My Disability: Outstanding Books For and About Young People with Disabilities

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‘An Introduction to the IBBY Collection for Young People with Disabilities’ by Leigh Turina

Leigh Turina, Lead Librarian for the IBBY Collection for Young People with Disabilities, held at Toronto Public LibraryLeigh Turina is Lead Librarian for the IBBY Collection for Young People with Disabilities, which is held at Toronto Public …

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Revisited: Where the Steps Were by Andrea Cheng

Where the Steps Were, by Andrea Cheng (Wordsong, 2008)Where the Steps Were
by Andrea Cheng
(Wordsong, 2008)

 

Where the Steps Were is a story told in verse by five third-grade students in an inner-city school, who all come under …

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Interview: Padma Venkatraman

NWD interview with author Padma VenkatramanAuthor Padma Venkatraman‘s most recent novel A Time to Dance was an Honour Winner in the 2015 South Asia Book Award and was chosen for inclusion in IBBY’s 2015 Selection of Outstanding Books …

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Reconciliation and Friendship in the Face of Fear and Distrust in Children’s and YA Books

Mirrors Windows Doors article: Reconciliation and Friendship in the Face of Fear and Distrust in Children's and YA BooksA few weeks ago, amidst the deepening refugee crisis from the war in Syria, many people and organisations around the world came together for …

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Escaping Conflict, Seeking Peace: Picture books that relate refugee stories, and their importance

This article was a presentation given at the 2012 IBBY Congress in London, first posted here and developed from a PaperTigers.org Personal View, “Caught up in Conflict: Refugee stories about and for young people“.
A bibliography with links to relevant websites is listed by title can be …

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Revisited: Home and Away by John Marsden and Matt Ottley

Home and Away, written by John Marsden, illustrated by Matt Ottley (Lothian Children’s Books, 2008)

 

Home and Away
written by John Marsden, illustrated by Matt Ottley
(Lothian Children’s Books, 2008)

The definite scribbling out of …

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Review: The Wordkeepers by Jash Sen

Book one in YA trilogy, The Wordkeepers, by Jash Sen (Duckbill Books, 2013)

 

The Wordkeepers
written by Jash Sen
(Duckbill Books, 2013)

 
Epic in its scope, The Wordkeepers begins with a prologue set five thousand …

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Review: Where I Belong by Tara White

Where I Belong by Tara White (Tradewind Books, 2014 (Canada)/2015 (UK and US))
Where I Belong

by Tara White
(Tradewind Books, 2014 (Canada)/2015 (US & UK))

 

Sixteen-year-old Carrie tells her story of what happened in the summer of 1990, …

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Review: Jandamarra by Mark Greenwood and Terry Denton

Jandamarra, written by Mark Greenwood, illustrated by Terry Denton (Allen & Unwin, 2013)

 

Jandamarra
written by Mark Greenwood, illustrated by Terry Denton
(Allen & Unwin, 2013)

 

Presented in a quasi-graphic-novel format, Jandamarra is …

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