Synopses & Reviews
A young Chicano family places all its dreams for the future on a golden cockroach.Children on a Chippewa reservation carve a tribal trickster from a block of ice in the middle of July.
A young black woman with a gift for preaching decides she'll fly on Sunday at the Perfect Peace Baptist Church.
Written by such distinguished authors as Maxine Hong Kingston, Lois Lowry, Gary Soto, and Joyce Carol Thomas, the short stories in this collection are a celebration of diversity--a tribute to the races and cultures that make up America. Here are exquisitely crafted fables and fantasies, surprising turns of plots, intricate patterns, and powerful rhythms that take the reader from rural Oklahoma to a Chicago Latino barrio, from an East Coast neighborhood to urban San Francisco, and beyond. Here are stories that illuminate the glory, the splendor, the achings and failings of young people growing up across the country--and that address what it is truly like to be ethnic and American.
"Readers are treated to the cultural richness of [eleven] stories depicting the frustrations and celebrations of young people in the United States: Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, White Americans, and Japanese Americans." EJ. "The collection is rich and colorful, containing strong individual voices. A subtle and sophisticated assortment, dominated by an appealing honesty and authenticity." C.
1991 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)
Synopsis
New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
Synopsis
A young Chicano family places all its dreams for the future on a golden cockroach.
Children on a Chippewa reservation carve a tribal trickster from a block of ice in the middle of July.
A young black woman with a gift for preaching decides she'll fly on Sunday at the Perfect Peace Baptist Church.
Written by such distinguished authors as Maxine Hong Kingston, Lois Lowry, Gary Soto, and Joyce Carol Thomas, the short stories in this collection are a celebration of diversity--a tribute to the races and cultures that make up America. Here are exquisitely crafted fables and fantasies, surprising turns of plots, intricate patterns, and powerful rhythms that take the reader from rural Oklahoma to a Chicago Latino barrio, from an East Coast neighborhood to urban San Francisco, and beyond. Here are stories that illuminate the glory, the splendor, the achings and failings of young people growing up across the country--and that address what it is truly like to be ethnic and American.
Readers are treated to the cultural richness of eleven stories depicting the frustrations and celebrations of young people in the United States: Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, White Americans, and Japanese Americans. EJ. The collection is rich and colorful, containing strong individual voices. A subtle and sophisticated assortment, dominated by an appealing honesty and authenticity. C.
1991 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)
About the Author
Joyce Carol Thomas is an internationally renowned author who received the National Book Award for her first novel, Marked By Fire, and a Coretta Scott King Honor for her first picture book, Brown Honey In Broomwheat Tea. Her other titles include I Have Heard Of A Land, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book; The Gospel Cinderella; cCrowning Glory; Gingerbread Days; and A Gathering Of Flowers. Ms. Thomas lives in Berkeley, California.
Table of Contents
Almost a whole trickster / Gerald Vizenor -- The Harringtons' daughter / Lois Lowry -- Going for the moon / Al Young -- Christmas story of the golden cockroach / Ana Castillo -- Autumn rose / Kevin Kyung -- Young Reverend Zelma Lee Moses / Joyce Carol Thomas -- First love / Gary Soto -- After the war / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- Upstream / Gerald Haslam --Twisters and shouters / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Colony /Rick Wernli.