edited by Sarah Moon
Arthur A Levine Books
978-0-545-39932-6
$17.99
We've all heard of the "It Gets Better" or the "Dear Bully" campaigns. Scholastic took those projects a step further and gathered over 60 authors to write letters to their younger LGBTQ selves. What a great way to reach those teens who may be struggling to hang on.
Monday - Friday, I will highlight a different young adult author, as well as Arthur Levine himself, and give you an excerpt of their story.
Jacqueline Woodson
Woodson is the author of the Newbery Honor Show Me as well as If You Come Softly, Locomotion, Peace,Locomotion and other books for children and teens. Visit her website - Jacqueline Woodson.
Woodson writes of her best friend Maria. Maria has an aunt that Woodson is simultaneously drawn to and afraid of:
Alma scares you - she is tall and thin and dresses like a man. Your mother calls her a a bulldagger and this word alone - when said the way your mother says it - makes you afraid to get close to Alma. You think, That isn't me. You are already thinking, That isn't me. Because somewhere deep, you know that it is.Giveaway
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