The Girl In The Book
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Alice Harvey, a 28-year-old assistant book editor and aspiring writer, is tasked with handling the re-release of Milan Daneker's book Waking Eyes. Her father is a successful literary agent, who is overbearing, and her mother is overpowered by him. Alice first met Milan when she was 13, at one of her parents' parties. Soon after, Alice got stuck on a paper/potential novel she was writing and called Milan for guidance. Later, Alice's father was happy to find out Milan was mentoring her. He began to come over while she was home alone, and they lay on her bed. Milan asked Alice for a kiss and they started to make out.
Back at work, when the re-release of Waking Eyes is hot off the presses, Alice sees that there is a new dedication written about her. In the past, at a book signing, Milan began to read aloud, and Alice finally realized he had blatantly stolen her work, in some cases verbatim, and incorporates details from the sexual relationship he manipulated her into. Alice finally gets the courage to tell her mother what happened. On the car ride home with her parents after the book signing, Alice is mortified when her father mentions that her mother told him her secret. He says that he asked Milan about it, who denied it. They tell her she may have misinterpreted her interaction with Milan, or she may just have a crush on him. In the present day, Alice goes to confront Milan but he still denies any wrongdoing.
Elsewhere, Emmett finds the blog post. He's touched and after Alice comes to his apartment they get back together. At the re-release party of the book, Alice does not show up, staying with Emmett instead. He asks her if she's the girl in the book, to which she replies, \"not anymore\".
A Kickstarter campaign was set up to raise money for post-production, the goal was set at $65,000, the goal was met raising a total of $65,342.[6] Rewards for donating included a behind-the scenes blog, and a coffee table book.[6]
This book is a great option for helping young girls learn important life lessons. Being a Girl is an inspirational book filled with lessons on confidence, being a kind person, loving yourself, and more. This book makes it easier for parents to help their daughters learn and grow.Details:
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A beautiful book about kindness and embracing differences, this rich picture book is full of girls exploring their interests, playing, and learning together. After your first read, it will be your go-to gift for families with girls.
Anyone can fall in love with this gorgeously-drawn storybook, but little girls who love to draw will be copying the paw print trails and charming animals in this soon-to-be-classic story about determination and hard work.
One thing I loved was how much this book not only focuses on the romance but really treats Alex and Molly as individual people who grow and change. How did you develop their individual journeys and make them intertwine so seamlessly
In terms of recommendations for forthcoming YA, there are SO many great books coming out this year. Definitely put Blaine for the Win by Robbie Couch and Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler on your radar.
Alaina Lavoie is a Program Manager at We Need Diverse Books and a reviewer for Booklist. She has worked with WNDB since 2015, beginning as a volunteer and joining the staff in 2019. She also teaches in the MFA, MA, and BA programs of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College. In 2017, she was awarded a Bookbuilders of Boston scholarship for her dedication to amplifying marginalized voices and advocating for an equitable publishing and media industry. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, The Boston Globe Magazine, Refinery29, The Oprah Magazine, Bitch, Glamour, The Chicago Tribune, and more, under the byline Alaina Leary. Alaina lives in Boston with her wife, their three literary cats, and a rainbow bookshelf. She is almost always covered in glitter.
Parents need to know that in Holly Jackson's A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, 17-year-old Pippa (Pip) Fitz-Amobi has decided on a most unexpected senior capstone project: investigating a murder. Five years ago, a pretty and popular student at her Connecticut high school had gone missing. When her boyfriend committed suicide, everyone in town (police included) decided he must have murdered her and then killed himself. But is that really what happened Pip puts together a list of potential suspects -- a teacher, a police officer, an older boy, a drug dealer, and a high school classmate -- and soon uncovers a whole host of long hidden secrets. Teens attend parties where they get drunk and smoke dope and one character deals drugs. It's revealed that a girl was drugged and raped. Characters use some profanity (\"f--k,\" \"s--t,\" \"bitch.\" Any reader who's a Veronica Mars fan will be equally as captivated by Pip and her sleuthing skills.
In A GOOD GIRL'S GIDE TO MURDER, Pip Fitz-Amobi has decided that murder will be the subject of her senior capstone project. She doesn't believe that Sal Singh murdered his high school girlfriend, Andie Bell, and she intends to prove it. After signing a school contract that says she will have no contact with any of the families involved, the first thing she does is ring the doorbell at the Singh house and talk with Sal's younger brother, Ravi. But after telling Pip in no uncertain terms that he wants nothing to do with her investigation, Ravi soon joins her in trying to clear Sal's name. But it's a tough job. Andie's body has never been found and all the evidence seems to point to Sal. Friends who had provided alibis for Sal for the time of Andie's disappearance admitted they had initially lied to the police. Andie's phone was found on Sal's body and traces of her blood under his fingernails. If that wasn't enough to convince everyone he'd killed her, Sal had sent an \"I did it\" text message to his father before committing suicide. But as Pip begins to dig deeper into Andie and Sal's lives, lie after lie begins to be revealed, and a growing list of suspects emerges: a too-friendly high school teacher, a mysterious older boy with a fake Facebook profile, a girl Andie had bullied, a local drug dealer, a police officer who could have removed evidence from Andie's house. When Pip begins receiving notes threatening her if she doesn't stop digging into Andie's murder, she's certain she's on the track of the real killer.
At any rate, once I was three or so chapters into the book, I felt like things smoothed out and I started to really like both Molly and Alex a lot. I loved watching their friendship develop and watching Molly find her confidence and Alex find the ability to open up and let herself genuinely care about someone.
Molly also had a complex relationship with her mom. I felt like there was a good balance there, too, of giving enough time and space in the story to bring up some of those issues without it dominating or taking over the whole book.
Most of the members in The Plastics contributed to creating this book. The only girls who were not mentioned were Cady Heron, Gretchen Wieners and Karen Smith because they played a part in writing some of the pages in the book.
Challenged, but retained at the Currituck (NC) High School library. This first novel by Stone, written in a poetry format, follows the story of three girls who fall for the same bad boy intent on seducing every girl in school.
You may recall from the last Gossip Girl book that Jenny Humphrey has left Constance Billard in NYC to go to a boarding school- Waverly Academy in Upstate New York. Waverly Academy is filled with rich kids with their secrets. Jenny herself is trying to move into her \"New Jenny\" role, meaning she isn't going to let people get her down anymore. She wants to be more wild, more in control, more free. So far it seems to be working, as several of the popular guys in school seem to like her already. But can that be because of the rumors that keep following her around
American Girl, best known for its historical dolls and their accompanying books and accessories, is making headlines on right-wing media this week. In addition to its dolls and their stories, the brand is well-known for their Smart Girl\\u2019s Guide book series, the latest of which is \\u201cBody Image: How to Love Yourself, Live Life to the Fullest, and Celebrate All Kinds of Bodies.\\u201d The book is facing intense backlash from right-wing outlets for its inclusion of a transgender Pride flag and mentions of they\\/them pronouns and gender-affirming care in its pages.\\n\\n\\n\\nThe section in question: two pages titled, \\u201cGender Joy,\\u201d which starts by saying, \\u201cMessages about how bodies \\u2018should\\u2019 look are different depending on a person\\u2019s gender. \\u2026 Luckily, it\\u2019s not your job to look the way people expect \\u2014 it\\u2019s your job to be you.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\nThe book is the first from American Girl to explicitly address gender identity. In doing so, the company has unleashed a wave of criticism from conservative critics, who have seized on the book\\u2019s content to perpetuate the anti-LGBTQ+ rights talking point that support for trans young people is equivalent to forcing children to medically transition without their consent. Fox News commentator Kristi Hamrick said that the book sends the message to girls that, \\u201cthey might not be good enough as they are\\u201d by including trans-inclusive content. Hamrick claimed that by \\u201ctelling young girls that when they are uncomfortable, they should consider pursuing what can be unfixable changes to their bodies,\\u201d and suggested that the brand is pushing puberty blockers onto children. \\n\\n\\n\\nBuilding off this, conservative commentators and social media influencers are calling for a ban on both the \\u201cBody Image\\u201d book and a boycott of the American Girl brand.\\n\\n\\n\\nThe current attacks on \\u201cBody Image\\u201d not only speak to the heightened state of targeted hate against queer and transgender individuals, but the unique position that the American Girl brand holds in American culture and the ways people look to it to define popular conceptions of the very idea of girlhood and gender norming. \\n\\n\\n\\nAmerican Girl built itself around themes like history, girlhood, initiative and innocence. The characters\\u2019 wholesome image \\u2014 combined with expensive dolls that are designed and marketed as something to be explicitly cared for \\u2014 means that the brand is also one that is \\u201cappreciated by more conservative families,\\u201d said Emilie Zaslow, a professor and chair of communication and media studies at Pace University and the author of \\u201cPlaying with America\\u2019s Doll: A Cultural Analysis of the American Girl Collection.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\n\\u201cPeople felt like they could trust American Girl and they still do,\\u201d Zaslow said. \\u201cThe perception is that American Girl is going to protect girls and will provide them with safe stories about girlhood.\\u201d \\n\\n\\n\\n(American Girl)\\n\\n\\n\\nPleasant Rowland founded American Girl in the 1980s after trying to buy dolls for her nieces and being struck by the fact that the market was largely baby dolls and Barbies. \\u201cShe didn\\u2019t want them to either be mothers and have baby dolls or play with Barbie and be introduced to ideas about adulthood too early,\\u201d Zaslow said. \\n\\n\\n\\nThe idea of girlhood itself was going through its own cultural revolution at that time, with Madonna topping the charts and the movie \\u201cDirty Dancing\\u201d becoming a cultural phenomenon. \\u201cConversations about teen girls and their sexuality were suddenly being brought into everyday life,\\u201d Zaslow said. As a result of this, she explained, a lot of second-wave feminists, a label with which Rowland identified, found themselves concerned by what they perceived as the continued objectification of women\\u2019s bodies and this objectification trickling down to younger and younger age demographics. \\n\\n\\n\\n\\u201cPleasant Rowland didn\\u2019t want girls to be positioned as either mothers \\u2014 expected to return to the private sphere of the home without other forms of identity \\u2014 but she also didn\\u2019t want girlhood to be a moment where you were preparing to become a sexual object,\\u201d Zaslow said.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nEnter the American Girl doll and its accompanying brand, which focused on \\u201cgirlhood bravery, doing good things in the world, and rejecting their mothers\\u2019 position in the private sphere.\\u201d But, Zaslow said, this commodification of a kind of second-wave feminist idea of girlhood was also \\u201ccouched in a kind of neo-traditionalism \\u2014 the focus on history, this notion of girlhood as a time of innocence and purity.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\nThough the brand has evolved, this initial positioning has a certain stronghold in the minds of many consumers \\u2014 which contributes to the kind of outrage being expressed by many self-identified conservatives at the content of the new book. \\n\\n\\n\\nIn a statement shared with The 19th, a spokesperson for American Girl said, \\u201cWe value the views and feedback of our customers and acknowledge the perspectives on this issue. The content in this book, geared for kids 10+, was developed in partnership with medical and adolescent care professionals and consistently emphasizes the importance of having conversations and discussing any feelings with parents or trusted adults. We are committed to delivering content that leaves our readers feeling informed, confident, and positive about themselves.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\nThe first \\u201cCare and Keeping of You\\u201d book released by American Girl came out in 1998, and even then it had messages in it \\u201cabout loving your body regardless of its size or shape, and information about who can and cannot touch your body,\\u201d Zaslow said. The books also reinforced more traditional ideas of gender and sexuality, firmly grounded in heteronormativity, with books like the \\u201cSmart Girl\\u2019s Guide to Boys\\u201d \\u2014 a title which itself explicitly implies that all girls would be interested in boys from a romantic angle. (The book did contain information about sexual harassment.)\\n\\n\\n\\n(American Girl)\\n\\n\\n\\n(American Girl)\\n\\n\\n\\nZaslow said that American Girl has always been about generating profit first and foremost \\u2014 which means that while it has never been a leader in social change, it has typically been incredibly responsive to it.\\n\\n\\n\\n \\u201cI think for a lot of families, it is very welcome to see them say that gender expression can be interpreted broadly, that gender exists on a spectrum, that not everyone who is female was assigned female at birth and that the sex you were assigned at birth may not be how you identify,\\u201d Zaslow said. \\u201cThe way this book is written positions the importance of mental health and of finding an alternative person to talk to if your parent is not the right person\\u2026. The focus of these books is always about talking to an adult when you are facing any kind of mental health issue. They always say, \\u2018Talk to a parent or another trusted adult.\\u2019\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\n\\u201cBody Image\\u201d is not the first time American Girl has drawn the attention of the right-wing media. Zaslow points to 2005, when the brand partnered with Girls, Inc., selling an \\u201cI Can\\u201d rubber band bracelet for $1. The proceeds were to benefit Girls, Inc., a nonprofit organization focused on empowering and enriching girls\\u2019 lives. But because Girls, Inc. had also publicly come out in favor of reproductive freedom and of girls who identified as queer, \\u201cthe right-wing press went nuts saying that American Girl was pro-choice \\u2014 which they have never come out as saying they are or aren\\u2019t.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\nBut for many people, especially those who grew up with the books and the dolls, the moments of co-branding alongside more explicitly progressive brands feels exactly like what the American Girl brand does represent, especially when viewed within the context of its informational titles like the Smart Girl\\u2019s Guides. \\n\\n\\n\\n(American Girl)\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\u201cThis may be an unpopular opinion, but we believe that the brand has always been fairly progressive in terms of departing from gender norms. Though the earliest dolls, all White, cisgendered girls, weren\\u2019t exactly a great representation of all American girls, their stories departed from traditional gender norms and highlighted characteristics in them that hadn\\u2019t traditionally been considered feminine,\\u201d wrote Barrett Adair and Carter Black, the co-creators and co-owners of the Hellicity Merriman account on Instagram, which repurposes American Girl dolls and books into political and pop culture commentary memes, in an email to The 19th. \\u201cThey appeared to keep that up in the decades since, and make strides to market their dolls and books to children who don\\u2019t identify as girls, including offering some dolls that are boys and revamping the Care and Keeping-style books to cater to boys. We wouldn\\u2019t necessarily say they\\u2019re ahead of the curve, but would say they\\u2019ve always made some strides to break from gender norms.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\nAdair and Black said that while the American Girl brand\\u2019s informational titles have nothing to do with the dolls that first put the brand on the map, it is these informational books that \\u201chave cemented the American Girl brand in Millennial and Gen Z nostalgia.\\u201d Most children cannot afford American Girl dolls, they pointed out. \\u201cBut their informational books are bordering on being a public service \\u2014 they\\u2019re stocked in just about every library in America, and American Girl has free PDFs of them online.\\u201d\\u00a0\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nIt\\u2019s also why the two co-creators say that these books are so important, and why the new \\u201cBody Image\\u201d book is such a critical addition to the series.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\u201cIn an effort to be factual and make the kids reading these books feel good and informed, we think it\\u2019s an incredibly logical and important step for the brand to include these new sections, and we\\u2019re not shocked that they thought to add them in. We\\u2019d say it takes a bit of willful ignorance to assume that the brand\\u2019s values don\\u2019t align with being gender-inclusive.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\nOf the Girl\\u2019s Guide books, Adair and Black stressed that not only is the series, \\u201centirely agenda-less beyond informing kids about puberty and all that comes with it,\\u201d it isn\\u2019t even seen as a primary revenue source for the company. That is, that the American Girl brand is making the effort to invest time and resources in producing inclusive \\u2014 and now, gender-affirming \\u2014 content without the goal of profit in mind. \\n\\n\\n\\n\\u201cIt would be a disservice to conservatives\\u2019 own children to make these books the latest target of their book-banning wrath, especially because the point of [the \\u201cGender Joy\\u201d section] doesn\\u2019t even seem to be about driving conversation, but rather, making gender inclusivity an incredibly normal, expected part of how we educate children,\\u201d Adair and Black said. \\u201cThere are plenty of things you could criticize American Girl for as a brand, but it shouldn\\u2019t be this.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nLessa Pelayo-Lozada, president of the American Library Association, told The 19th that attacks on books \\u2014 especially those for young people and especially those with LGBTQ+ content \\u2014 are currently at an unprecedented level, with attempts at book banning in the United States reaching a level that \\u201chas not been seen since the McCarthy era\\u201d of the 1950s. From January to October of 2022, 781 attempts were made to challenge 1,835 titles. In comparison, in 2019, there were just 377 attempts made to challenge the circulation of books, about 566 individual titles. \\n\\n\\n\\nWhereas in the past, challenges to books were most often made by individuals, Pelayo-Lozada described today\\u2019s targeted attempts to end access to books as often \\u201corganized attempts by groups who are submitting large lists of multiple titles that sometimes a library doesn\\u2019t even own.\\u201d \\n\\n\\n\\nBut books like \\u201cBody Image\\u201d that are written in consultation with experts to get relevant information to young people about their bodies and health in an age-appropriate way are exactly the kinds of books libraries are designed for, Pelayo-Lozada said. \\u201cLibrarians and library workers are trained to make informed purchases for our collections, to build diverse collections to make sure that every reader that comes into our doors is able to access the information they need at the point of their lives in which they need it.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\nIn a time when \\u201cparents\\u2019 rights\\u201d have become a rallying cry associated with school board elections, curriculum content, COVID-19 policy and book restrictions, Pelayo-Lozada points out that the availability of books on topics like puberty and bodies is crucial regardless of a reader\\u2019s background or beliefs.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\u201cWe are focused on providing factually correct information, and while we respect every family\\u2019s choice about what their family reads together and what values they want to uphold, we can\\u2019t make that choice for other families,\\u201d she said. \\u201cIt is not the role of libraries to tell folks how to parent, and it is not the role of parents to tell other families how to parent, either.\\u201d\\n\",\"post_title\":\"'It\\u2019s your job to be you': American Girl book promotes inclusion but faces right-wing backlash\",\"post_excerpt\":\"\",\"post_status\":\"publish\",\"comment_status\":\"closed\",\"ping_status\":\"closed\",\"post_password\":\"\",\"post_name\":\"american-girl-book-inclusivity-right-wing-backlash\",\"to_ping\":\"\",\"pinged\":\"\",\"post_modified\":\"2022-12-14 13:36:15\",\"post_modified_gmt\":\"2022-12-14 19:36:15\",\"post_content_filtered\":\"\",\"post_parent\":0,\"guid\":\"https:\\/\\/19thnews.org\\/p=48424\",\"menu_order\":0,\"post_type\":\"post\",\"post_mime_type\":\"\",\"comment_count\":\"0\",\"filter\":\"raw\"},\"authors\":[{\"name\":\"Jennifer Gerson\",\"slug\":\"jennifer-gerson\",\"taxonomy\":\"author\",\"description\":\"Jennifer Gerson is a reporter on our breaking news team. 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