| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780786806935 | | Publisher: Hyperion Books | | Publish Date: 5/1/2004 | | Buy.com Sku: 33981447 | | Item#: BWQET5 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.5H x 5.75L x 0.75T | | Pages: 176 |
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| | | Taking readers through the minds of girls trying to define themselves while struggling to remain relevant to the boys in their lives, a Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author offers a complex, always on-point exposition of black youth resolving to find self worth.
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These 10 affecting--comical, distressing, often painfully authentic--short stories thoughtfully careen around the universe of young black women and the boys that both fascinate and infuriate them. While offering insights into the enormous range of emotions and experiences teenaged girls have, stories such as "So I Ain't No Good Girl," "The Ugly One," and "Wanted: A Thug" also create a context for girls to consider their own feelings of self-worth. A 2005 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book.
| PraiseKirkus
"Each story has a strength and point of view different from the others. The result of all these stories together is more than the sum of their parts, but a call to both sexes to think and respect each other more. Fortunately, Flake's handling of her theme is not didactic and paternalistic, but shines with an awareness of the real-life social, emotional, and physical pressures that teens feel about dating." 04/15/2004Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"Flake is breaking new and necessary ground here, creating compelling, vibrant voices of black girls for black girls, with no implicit or explicit address to outsider culture." - Karen Coats July/August 2004 |
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