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Beth Kephart Books: What a Girl Wants: The Mean Girls Question
Jen Robinson's Book Page: Wednesday Afternoon Visits: November 4: Kidlitosphere News and Views
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a must-read: thoughts on 'mean girls' in literature-- http://tinyurl.com/yly9fqb 15 days ago |
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Based on the comments, I must conclude mean girls are a real phenomena. Damn. Lit http://tinyurl.com/yly9fqb 17 days ago |
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RT @chasingray: What a girl wants #9: Mean Girls in Teen Lit http://tinyurl.com/yly9fqb 17 days ago |
What a Girl Wants: The Mean Girls Question
Beth Kephart Books —
... In her ever-popular What a Girl Wants series, Colleen Mondor over at Chasing Ray is asking about that notorious literary mean girls fad, specifically wondering, "Does teen literature exaggerate the mean girl phenomenon too much?" Laurel Snyder, Zetta Elliott, Lorie Ann Grover, Melissa Wyatt, Sara Ryan, Kekla Magoon, yours truly, and others have opined. As always, the conversation is rich. ...
Wednesday Afternoon Visits: November 4: Kidlitosphere News and Views
Jen Robinson's Book Page —
... . This week's topic is: mean girls in literature. Colleen asks: "did literature create the myth of mean girls or have the reality of mean girls created accompanying literature?" As usual in this smart series, the responses extend in a variety of intriguing directions. ...
On Mean Girls & Writing Some Girls Are
courtney summers —
... has a great blog post about mean girls in YA lit. That is a topic that is relevant to my interests! She asked: Does teen literature exaggerate the mean girl phenomena too much? If aliens landed on earth and read teen lit (oh my) would they expect to find mini Cordelias wreaking havoc on every high school across America? Are they so prevalent because it just easier to write about mean girls then nice ones? Is teen lit reflecting what is real in this instance or propagating an unfair femail stereotype? ...
Cynsational News & Giveaways
Cynsations —
... World in Your Backyard: Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me by Jennifer M. Brown from School Library Journal. Peek: "I think that life gets much more complicated at 12. At that age I did have friends who were boys. But what I found was—not so much confusion about whether we were boyfriend and girlfriend or just regular friends—for me, 12 was the age at which things started to change, whether I wanted them to or not." Source: April Henry. Mean Girls in YA Lit: a multi-voice discussion at Chasing Ray. From contributor Margo Rabb: "As an adult, it's usually ...
Sunday Salon 11-8: Bookkeeping, Challenging, etc.
The 3 R's Blog // Reading, 'Riting, and Randomness —
... A discussion of the "mean girl," in (YA) fiction and reality ...
