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Read it and weep for contemporary children.(young-adult books)(excerpt from The New York Times, February 23, 2005)(Excerpt)
The infiltration (with encouragement from librarians) of harsh libertine themes into books marketed to teenagers was the subject of a February 23 New York Times profile, excerpted here:
Weetzie Bat ... has a boyfriend she calls "My Secret Agent Lover Man." They live with Dirk, Weetzie's gay best friend, his lover, Duck, and Weetzie's daughter, Cherokee, possibly conceived during group sex with Dirk and Duck.... The family works in the movie business. And they become involved with seamier elements of Los Angeles: rough sex, pimps and drugs.
This may not seem like a conventional young-adult book or something to be promoted by your local library. But in January, the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association announced that [the author of these stories sold to teenagers, Francesca] Block, was being given the Margaret Edwards Award for lifetime achievement....
"Hers is a voice so unique that nobody will ever be able to imitate it," said Cindy Dobrez, a public school librarian and chairwoman of the award committee.
Not everyone has been happy with Ms. Block's explicit subject matter, however. In 2003, Parents Against Bad Books in Schools, a ...
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