Category Archives: bullying
Sexism and Sensibility: Raising Empowered, Resilient Girls in the Modern World
Virtually every girl and woman I see in therapy feels as if they got away with something when they experience success. They bring up the term ‘imposter syndrome’ and say, ‘that’s me exactly.’” Continue reading →
Sometimes We Tell the Truth
Sometimes is, in fact, a modern telling of Chaucer’s tales with teens as the pilgrims. Except that these pilgrims are not making a commitment to the Almighty. They are going to Washington D.C . on a six-hour bus trip with their Civics class teacher. Continue reading →
Uncultured: The Children of God Cult
Mestyanek Young grew up in the Children of God cult (often referred to as ‘the Family’). Her experience there is horrifying. Her childhood traumas are so numerous, it’s hard to understand how the cult even exists. Why don’t its members run the other way? Continue reading →
I Have a Novel! Keep Sweet!
Fourteen-year old Elizabeth Warren lives in the “Community” with her father, four mothers, and sixteen siblings. Their prophet heads the cult, controlling all aspects of the community members’ lives. When he announces that Elizabeth must marry her older cousin, she joins forces with her twin brother, her older sister, and two good friends to alter her fate. Continue reading →
Banned books and Sold by Patricia McCormick
I’m discussing the top banned books of the 2023-24 school year over at Be A Cactus. These are the top three: You can look back at the post on Perks and at this one on Alaska if you want to see why I think those books … Continue reading →
Posted in "Banned Book", banned books, bullying, Family Problems, Fiction, Hi-Low/Quick Read, Human Rights Issues, Multicultural
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Tagged book reviews, child abuse, child sexual abuse, family problems, friendship, hi-low reading, Nepal, poverty, sex trafficking, sexual slavery, Teen Issues, YA fiction, YA literature
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That Librarian by Amanda Jones
That Librarian is a memoir by Amanda Jones detailing the defamation and death threats she has had to endure after speaking in the public comments portion of a Livingston Public Library meeting in July 2022. She makes clear that her speech … Continue reading →
Posted in banned books, Biography/Memoir, bullying, censorship, Controversial Issue/Debate, Faith-Based/Religious Element, Human Rights Issues, Mature Readers, Non-fiction
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Tagged Adult books for teens, Amanda Jones, banned books, book reviews, censorship, librarians, memoir, nonfiction, school librarians, That Librarian
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A Suffragist’s Guide to the Antarctic by Yi Shun Lai
A Suffragist’s Guide to the Antarctic is a fictional work that takes inspiration from the adventures of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew on the Endurance. Its protagonist is Clara Ketterling-Dunbar, an eighteen-year-old American suffragist. Continue reading →
Posted in Adventure Stories, bullying, Fiction, Historical Fiction/Historical Element, Human Rights Issues, Young Adult Literature
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Tagged adventure stories, Antarctic, antarctica, book reviews, endurance, ernest-shackleton, history, shackleton, shipwreck, Suffragist’s Guide to the Antarctic, YA fiction, YA literature, Yi Shun Lai
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Rift by Cait West: Christian Patriarchy
“This is a story of chaos, of fragmentation, hidden beneath the facade of a happy family. This is a story of escape and risk and making it all worth it. This is a story of psychological, emotional, financial, and spiritual abuse. This is my story of survival.“ Continue reading →
Posted in bullying, Faith-Based/Religious Element, Family Problems, Human Rights Issues, Non-fiction
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Tagged Adult books for teens, book reviews, Cait West, family problems, fundamentalism (religion), memoir, parent-teen relationships, patriarchy, religion, religious hypocrisy, Rift, stay at home daughter movement
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Who are the Helpers, Anyway?
A review of “The Well-trained Wife” and book challenge/ban news A Well-trained Wife A Well-trained Wife details Levings’ descent from strict Baptist to Gothard woman (think the Duggars) to Calvinist following the model of Puritan Jonathan Edwards. Levings quotes “Sinners … Continue reading →
Posted in banned books, bullying, censorship, Faith-Based/Religious Element, Family Problems, Grief, Human Rights Issues, Mature Readers, Non-fiction
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Tagged A Well-trained Wife, book bans, book challenges, book reviews, Calvinism, fundamentalism (religion), Gothard women, librarians, libraries, religion, Tia Levings
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No Place for Fairy Tales
By edd tello A transgender teen wants the quinceañera of her dreams No Place for Fairy Tales is a short novel in verse that will appeal to a diverse group of readers. I picked it up in my ongoing efforts … Continue reading →
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Tagged book reviews, bullying, child-parent relationships, coming of age, family problems, friendship, gay teens, hi-low reading, high school students, LGBTQ, parent-teen relationships, reluctant readers, Teen Issues, YA fiction
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