Our Stories, Our Voices - 21 Ya Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, Growing Up

From 21 favorite YA authors comes an anthology of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America and the intersection with race, religion, and ethnicity. Contributors include Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, and Tracy Walker.

Info autore

Amy Reed is the author of the contemporary young adult novels Beautiful, Clean, Crazy, Over You, Damaged, Invincible, Unforgivable, The Nowhere Girls, and The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World. She is also the editor of Our Stories, Our Voices. She is a feminist, mother, and quadruple Virgo who enjoys running, making lists, and wandering around the mountains of western North Carolina where she lives. You can find her online at AmyReedFiction.com.

Riassunto

From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an anthology of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America.

This collection of twenty-one essays from major YA authors—including award-winning and bestselling writers—touches on a powerful range of topics related to growing up female in today’s America, and the intersection with race, religion, and ethnicity. Sure to inspire hope and solidarity to anyone who reads it, Our Stories, Our Voices belongs on every young woman’s shelf.

This anthology features essays from Martha Brockenbrough, Jaye Robin Brown, Sona Charaipotra, Brandy Colbert, Somaiya Daud, Christine Day, Alexandra Duncan, Ilene Wong (I.W.) Gregorio, Maurene Goo. Ellen Hopkins, Stephanie Kuehnert, Nina LaCour, Anna-Marie LcLemore, Sandhya Menon, Hannah Moskowitz, Julie Murphy, Aisha Saeed, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Amber Smith, and Tracy Walker.

Testo aggiuntivo

"Oustanding anthology . . . A clarion call to activism, the book empowers girls growing up with injustice in America by reflecting authentic and original voices from across the spectrums of race, gender, and religion and encourages them to speak their truths and become warriors for social justice."

 

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Martha Brockenbrough, Jaye Robin Brown, Sona Charaipotra, Brandy Colbert, Somaiya Daud, Christine Day, Tracy Deonn, Alexandra Duncan, Maurene Goo, Gregorio, I. W. Gregorio, Ilene (I.W.) Gregorio, Ellen Hopkins, Stephanie Kuehnert, Nina LaCour, Anna-Marie McLemore, Sandhya Menon, Hannah Moskowitz, Julie Murphy, Amy Reed, Amy Murphy Reed, Aisha Saeed, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Amber Smith, Tracy Walker, Tracy Deonn Walker
• Con la collaborazione di: Amy Reed (Editore)
• Editore: Simon & Schuster UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 14 a 17 anni
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781534408999
• ISBN: 978-1-5344-0899-9
• Pagine: 320
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Famiglia; Libri per bambini e per ragazzi > Saggi / saggi illustrati > Uomo