Kaleidoscope Song

Informationen zum Autor Fox Benwell is a passionate author, educator, and academic, with a particular interest in the intersections between culture, literature, and learning. He holds a BA in international education, an MA in writing for young people (distinction) from Bath Spa University, and is working on his PhD, examining disability representation in current anglophone young adult literature. He teaches creative writing, as well as teaching in a SEN setting. He’s delivered several academic papers and school workshops on the topics of disability and LGBTQIA+ representation. Mostly, he’s an author and lover of stories. His debut novel  The Last Leaves Falling  was a CBC Notable Children’s Book in Children’s Studies, a USBBY Outstanding International Book, on the Arkansas Teen Book Award Reading List, and longlisted for the Carnegie Greenaway Medal. He also wrote  Kaleidoscope Song , has contributed to three anthologies:  Unbroken ,  Proud  and  Out Now , and is currently working on several new adventures.  Klappentext In Khayelitsha, South Africa, Neo's passion for music leads her to her first love--Tale, the female lead singer of a local band--and an internship at the local radio station, and both experiences teach Neo about the risks and rewards of using her own voice to empower others. Leseprobe Kaleidoscope Song South Africa is loud. Listen. Footsteps, engines, radio. The lazy buzzing heat and the singing laughing joy. The slap of palms when business strikes. The dance of it. The movement and the bustle, the spring of young and creaking of the old. The bars. Street corners. Schools. It has an energy in everything, a song all of its own. And it’s a song that only works with every part in place. Every discord pushing forward. Every rhythm. Every voice, including yours. Every voice is different, its pitch and tone and intonation as distinct as the words we choose and how we wrap our mouths around them. But everybody has a voice, and everybody sings. Oh, we all do it differently. Some of us sing quietly, alone, only in the dead of night or in the shower. Some of us sing a cappella, and some stand on a stage beside a band and let the whole world share their song. Some of us, some of us don’t sing at all, like that. We sing with other instruments: There’s song in stories, and in art, and in getting up before the dawn and putting food onto the table. There are angry songs and sad songs and songs that make you want to dance. But everybody has a song to sing, their own personal story leaked into the world. And mine is one of love. • • • It starts in a bar. One of ours, in the heart of Khayelitsha. Nothing special on the outside, but inside, tonight, two hundred people cram together beneath the corrugated roof and wait, turned out in their Friday Bests, because everyone knows you have to look good for the radio. Tonight is special. Tonight the hosts of UmziRadio are here, in this little bar of ours, for us. It’s everything I’ve ever wanted. Worth the sneaking and the boom-boom-boom fear of my heart as I walked the streets at night, one hand curled into a fist and waiting, just in case. Worth the endless all week talk from my best friend. Worth every moment that preceded it. It started in a bar. . . . Or perhaps it really started with the argument. “Music isn’t realistic, Neo. Isn’t useful. You pick something else.” Old words, tired. Hammered out so many times I feel their indentations on my skin. And this—small and quiet as it is—is my rebellion. It’s freedom. And yes, I know you shouldn’t go into the dark alone. I know it isn’t safe. All the old words hammered out. But I didn’t mean to be alone. My bes...

About the author

Fox Benwell is a passionate author, educator, and academic, with a particular interest in the intersections between culture, literature, and learning. He holds a BA in international education, an MA in writing for young people (distinction) from Bath Spa University, and is working on his PhD, examining disability representation in current anglophone young adult literature. He teaches creative writing, as well as teaching in a SEN setting. He’s delivered several academic papers and school workshops on the topics of disability and LGBTQIA+ representation. Mostly, he’s an author and lover of stories. His debut novel The Last Leaves Falling was a CBC Notable Children’s Book in Children’s Studies, a USBBY Outstanding International Book, on the Arkansas Teen Book Award Reading List, and longlisted for the Carnegie Greenaway Medal. He also wrote Kaleidoscope Song, has contributed to three anthologies: Unbroken, Proud and Out Now, and is currently working on several new adventures. 

Product details

• Authors: Fox Benwell
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 14
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781481477680
• ISBN: 978-1-4814-7768-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Mankind; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / General, General fiction (Children's / Teenage)