Join In: Multiethnic Short Stories by Oustanding Writers for Young Adults - Hardcover

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9780385310802: Join In: Multiethnic Short Stories by Oustanding Writers for Young Adults

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ISBN 10: 0385310803 ISBN 13: 9780385310802

Publisher: Delacorte Press, 1993

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Seventeen original short stories by award-winning writers about young adults from diverse ethnic backgrounds illustrate their concerns about friendship and prejudice, expectations and disappointments, connections and confrontations, and other similar issues.

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Here are seventeen original short stories that reflect young adults' views on friendships and prejudice, expectations and disappointments, and connections and confrontations.

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Gallo weighs in with his cross-cultural anthology: 17 never- before-published tales from the likes of Julius Lester, Linda Crew, Brenda Wilkinson, Jean Davies Okimoto, and Rita Williams-Garcia. The teenagers here may be Asian, Chicano, First American, African- American, or even (in Elsa Marston's ``Rima's Song'') Lebanese and Palestinian, but their experiences are universal. Dupree is outraged when he sees the deductions from his very first paycheck (``Mutha FICA!''); Lucinda, a lonely Cuban refugee, finds both a stray dog and a friend; Maria is dazzled--but not too dazzled to say no--when luscious Frankie Galvan takes her for a ride. Many break stereotypes (to new student Ngo Huynh Phuong: ``Hey, you speak pretty good English.'' ``I don't see why not--I was born in Los Angeles'') or struggle with conflicts between traditional and new American values; others face, or fall before, challenges, from young motherhood and drug addiction to saving a beached whale or coping with a smothering godmother. Gallo opens with an essay on whether authors can or should write about cultures other than their own and appends a thumbnail biography to each story. Diverse, thought-provoking, and consistently well-written. (Short Stories. 11-18) -- Copyright �1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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