Join in: Multiethnic Short Stories

Rita Williams-Garcia,Donald R. Gallo,Lensey Namioka

ISBN 10: 0780751566 ISBN 13: 9780780751569

Publisher: Perfection Learning, 1995

Synopsis

Seventeen authors, at the invitation of the editor, wrote these stories especially for this collection featuring teenagers in America from various ethnic backgrounds.

About this title

From the Publisher

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

From Kirkus Reviews

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Perfection Learning
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0780751566
• ISBN 13: 9780780751569
• Binding: Unknown Binding