Posted by: John on: June 21, 2010
Are you going to the Annual Conference of the American Library Association in Washington, DC? Can’t make it to the Rainbow Project Breakfast? Never fear! Many of your favorite Rainbow Project authors will be signing books at the Exhibits. Visit www.ala.org for more information. Saturday, June 26: 9:30-10:30 am, Little Brown, Booth 2713: Malinda Lo […]
Posted by: John on: June 8, 2010
The Rainbow Project is excited to present its first celebratory event at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Washington, DC. Featuring talks by three well-known authors for children and young adults, the Rainbow Project Breakfast will take place on Sunday, June 27, at the Washington Convention Center. If you are attending the conference, we […]
Posted by: John on: June 8, 2010
Many of you have been watching rainbowlist.wordpress.com for nominations for the 2011 Rainbow Project Bibliography. After much discussion, the committee has decided to post nominations on a monthly basis, with bibliographic information and links to review sources for all titles nominated within a given month. Our final online bibliography (to be released following the ALA […]
Posted by: John on: November 22, 2009
Martin, Douglas A. Once You Go Back. 2009. 208 p. Seven Stories, $16.95. (978-1-58322-878-4). Gr. 10+. With the opening sentence, “Pretend you are my sister,” Martin’s narrator invites the reader to participate in an intimate journey of a young boy as he travels through childhood and adolescence within a strained family structure. Both the boy […]
Posted by: John on: November 22, 2009
Fishback, Jere’ M. Josef Jaeger. 2009. 396p. Prizm/Torquere, $13.95. (978-1603706858). Gr. 10+. A political and sexual coming-of-age story set in the early days of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and the consolidation of Nazi rule in Germany. Josef Jaeger is a thirteen-year-old youth who lives with his mother who is an opera singer in Bayreuth. […]
Posted by: John on: November 8, 2009
Dobkin, Alix. My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement. 2009. 272p. Alyson, $16.95. (978-159350107-5). Gr. 10-12. The first artist to record an openly lesbian album (1973), this famous women’s music legend chronicles her 25-year struggle to acknowledge her feelings […]
Posted by: John on: November 8, 2009
Bechdel, Alison. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for. 2009 (Nov.). 352p. Houghton Mifflin, $25.00. (978-0-618-96880-0). Gr. 10-12. For the past 25 years, readers have followed the countercultural adventures of Lois, Ginger, Sparrow, Mo, Claire, Toni, and their lovers and friends in this comic strip that has been syndicated, translated, and chosen for collections. Selections […]
Posted by: John on: November 8, 2009
Rouse, Wade. At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life. 2009. 301p. Harmony House, $23.99. (978-0-307-45190-3). Gr. 10-12. This hilarious memoir by the author of America’s Boy, an earlier Rainbow selection, covers a year in Michigan when Rouse and his partner, Gary, leave their city home […]