It's Your Rite - Girls' Coming of Age Stories - Softcover

9781582700748: It's Your Rite - Girls' Coming of Age Stories

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582700745 ISBN 13: 9781582700748

Publisher: Beyond Words Pub Co, 2003

Wth tales such as "Apache Coming-of-Age" and "Sixteen Candles", a story collection offers a look at how real-life American girls from diverse backgrounds struggle and cope with the transformation from childhood to womanhood. Original.

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From School Library Journal:

Grade 6 Up-Written by young women from around the country, this collection of essays covers many different rituals, ceremonies, and milestones associated with the coming-of-age experience. The authors range in age from 11 to 18, and their subjects are just as varied. From first bra to first love to years of agonizing periods to enduring the Hopi corn-grinding ceremony to being raised Amish, the essays lead readers through the events in each narrator's life that epitomize the independence, confusion, and fear of growing up. More uplifting than some similar collections, the pieces have positive overtones without being sentimental or sappy, yet the subjects are often heartrending. There's a nice balance between serious and more lighthearted reflections, and the style and tone of each selection reflect the individual authors. Teen editor Coon has compiled an interesting mix, and made sure there's something here for every girl, no matter her background or personal circumstances.
Linda Bindner, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO
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