Bah, I didn't manage yesterday. So I'll do two today. I keep promising 200 words only, and failing to keep that promise ( Read more... )

I know I keep saying that I am going to hew more strictly to 200 words, but honestly, tonight I think I will. Writing this on a Saturday night is... bah, not what I would rather be doing. Yes, I could have written it at any point today, and did not ( Read more... )

Almost forgot. Man, five more posts after this one.

James Lincoln Collier has been writing historical YAF since the 1960s, and the book he's probably best known for -- which he cowrote with his brother, Christopher Collier, as he did several others -- is My Brother Sam is Dead, written in 1975. I used to see it on the shelf at the Evanston ( Read more... )

First: I am not an unemployed teacher any more, hallelujah. I am an employed teacher -- virtually the same position I was in last year, same school, same district. I am absolutely relieved. And absolutely determined to finish my Single Subject credential this Fall. I got the call from the district today, and will go in to sign my contract on ( Read more... )

Let's see. Three at a go, this evening. Maybe. We'll see.

Berlie Doherty

Jill Paton Walsh

Harriette Gillem Robinet

The first author, Berlie Doherty, is a Brit. I don't know a ton about her, having only read one of her (many, apparently) books. But the one I read was good -- again, much more observant about class in history. It's about a ( Read more... )

Bah, I'm a post behind again. What got me so busy yesterday? Well, for a teacher's summer and a teacher-who-is-unemployed's summer, I was kind of busy, what with aqua with amarama, diabetic retinopathy screening photos, celebratory organic ice cream with annathebean and kaleidescope for the latter's new job, and picking up john_b_cannon at BART after his flight home from Kansas -- yay, john_b_cannon ( Read more... )

Next up, one of the best historical YAF authors I know -- she reminds me of Laurence Yep, in fact, partly because it's her interest in her own family history and its intersection with American history that motivates her writing. I very much like that motivation.

The first Mildred D. Taylor novel I read was definitely Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry ( Read more... )

Lord, this is exhausting, mentally, writing a post a day. I won't be surprised if my posts approach nearer and nearer to exactly two hundred words ( Read more... )

I think I'll do two and two for the last bits of historical YAF authors. Wait, that would be two and three. Maybe I'll find another author I forgot, and then it will be two and two and two.

Anyway, this evening:

Patricia Beatty

Alberta Wilson Constant

So, 19th century American history has many YAF author-admirers, and Patricia Beatty (and ( Read more... )

Continuing with historical YAF novels...

Elizabeth Marie Pope

Elizabeth Speare

Cynthia Harnett

I should possibly have done Elizabeth Marie Pope as one of my one hit wonders, but I like her two novels so much... not that that's an excuse; I ADORE Indi Rana's Roller Birds of Rampur, but haven't ... well, whatever. Anyway. Pope is the author of ( Read more... )