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betsy-tacy-society · 2 years

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Working on Yuletide or NaNoWriMo? Join us for free writers lounges every Sunday in November!

Sign up for a Betsy-Tacy Society membership for $25/year ($10 for teens) and get pep talks from Mitali Perkins, N Griffin, Jen Doll or Claudia Mills, too! All are successful writers AND BT fans!

Register for each week you want to attend: https://www.betsy-tacysociety.org/events/drop-in-writers-lounge

#nano 2022 #nanowrimo #yuletide #Yuletide 2022 #betsy Tacy #mitali perkins #n griffin #Jen doll #Claudia mills

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roseunspindle · 2 months

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Books by Women

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theredandwhitequeen · 4 months

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Book 3 of the 50 book challenge. Tiger Boy by Mitali Perkins. This is a story of a young boy in India, living on an Island who is incredibly smart up for a scholarship to a boarding school in a big city. It’s about also his search for a tiger cub who got on the island from a reserve and his quest to save her. It’s a great book. I really enjoyed it.

#book 3 #50 book challenge #2024 #tiger boy #mitali perkins #India #fiction #tigers #book #me

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literaticat · 5 months

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What would you consider to be the “new classics” in YA? In other words, assuming that you, like me, thought the books you read in HS were deadly dull and more appropriate for adults than teenagers, and you wanted to update those reading lists full of Faulkner and Dostoevsky (every 15 year old’s favorite authors, I’m sure), to more recent books, what would you pick? What are newer books for teens that you think are classics that will stand the test of time and will encourage teens to become life long readers while still tackling deep and weighty life questions? Hope this is a fun question and not one that feels like homework.

(I liked most of the stuff I read in high school - but I went to a fun school!)

I could probably come up with a MUCH longer list if I gave this more time -- but some of the books that popped directly into my mind as what I'd consider "modern YA classics" (published in the past 25 years) include:

SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson

FEED by M.T. Anderson

THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak

CODE NAME VERITY by Elizabeth Wein

THE HATE U GIVE by Angie Thomas

A STEP FROM HEAVEN by An Na

HOUSE OF THE SCORPION by Nancy Farmer

ALL MY RAGE by Sabaa Tahir

YOU BRING THE DISTANT NEAR by Mitali Perkins

A LONG WAY DOWN by Jason Reynolds

ELSEWHERE by Gabrielle Zevin

(If I were actually making a high school curriculum, though, I'd likely include some adult books as well -- one such contender would certainly be WHEN WOMEN WERE DRAGONS by Kelly Barnhill!)

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jamieroxxartist · 1 year

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✔ Mark Your Calendars: Tues Jan 31 on 🎨#JamieRoxx’s Pop Roxx Radio 🎙️#TalkShow and 🎧#Podcast w/ Featured Guest:

Author Mitali Perkins #Writer (#Novel) Rickshaw Girl: #Movie: #Drama, #Family

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Pop Art Painter Jamie #Roxx (www.JamieRoxx.us) welcomes #MitaliPerkins Writer (Novel) (#RickshawGirl: Movie: Drama, Family) to the Show!

● WEB: www.mitaliperkins.com ● TW: @MitaliPerkins

Rickshaw Girl: ● WEB: www.rickshawgirlmovie.com ● FB: @RickshawGirlMovie ● IG: @RickshawGirlMovie ● IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt4853244

A daring Bangladeshi teen-aged girl battles the dangers of the big city when she disguises herself as a boy to earn extra cash for her struggling family in the critically acclaimed RICKSHAW GIRL, on Demand December 8 from Sleeperwave Films.

Daring and determined, teenage girl Naima longs to earn money for her poor Bangladeshi family, but her unrivaled artistic talent is of little use. When her father grows gravely ill, Naima feels she has no choice but to leave her small village for the bright lights of Dhaka.

In the big city, Naima finds the same economic, societal, and gender pressures faced by most young girls in Bangladesh. She cleverly disguises herself as a boy and takes the difficult job of a rickshaw puller. When her gender is revealed and her livelihood vanishes, Naima finds an unconventional solution to her problems.

Directed by #AmitabhRezaChowdhury. Starring #NoveraRahman, #NareshBhuiyan, #AllenShubhroGomes, #MomenaChowdhury, and #GulshanChampa. Based on the acclaimed novel by Mitali Perkins. ● Media Inquiries: October Coast PR octobercoastpr.com

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themoonphoenix · 8 months

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Books set in Burma • Reading Challenge September 2023

Read Around the Word: Reading Challenge 2023 January Country: Burma (Myanmar) HISTORICAL Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins Bang! A side door bursts open. Soldiers pour into the room. They’re shouting and waving rifles. I shield my head with my arms. It was a lie! I think, my mind racing. Girls and boys alike are screaming. The soldiers prod and herd some of us together and push the rest apart…

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#burma #Myanmar #Read the Word

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creepykuroneko · 1 year

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Personal pet peeve

I absolutely hate it when I'm talking with another adult, someone in their 20s or 30s, and when I tell them I love to read for fun they respond with, "oh so do I! I read a ton of books!". Then it turns out the last time they read a book it was Harry Potter when they were 12 years old....

The first Harry Potter book was published in 1997 and the last Harry Potter book was published in 2007. There's been more than enough time for people to read a different book.

Now before any of you Gremlins try to take what I'm saying out of context, I do not have a problem with people who don't have time to read because they are busy raising children, have a soul sucking job that eats up all their free time, have too much going on in their life that makes them incapable of enjoying a good book, are disabled & not capable of engaging in enjoyable activities, or who just have no desire to read right now. This rant is not about those groups of people.

It's about single and childless people who work less than 20 hours a week, people who bragged to me about how they watch more than 20 hours of Netflix a week, people who tell me that they are rewatching ATLA for the 100th time again, then tell me how much they supposedly love to read books but really it's just harry potter, lord of the rings, and twilight. Those are the only books they've read. Their concept of literature is shallow pop culture and very much limited to cishet able-bodied White characters.

I'll start listing off dozens of amazing horror, fantasy, sci-fi novels I've read that were published within the last 5 years by POC authors that include diverse characters, and people will just respond with I like Harry Potter 🙃

Where are my actual fellow book nerds at? I want to discuss Stephen Graham Jones, Rivers Solomon, Nnedi Okorafor, Darcy Little Badger, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Nalo Hopkinson, Paul Trembly, Mitali Perkins, Sylvia Moreno Garcia, etc.

#booklr #books #literature #readerscommunity #book nerd

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baker-book-house · 2 years

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Books to Read in September

NON-FICTION BOOKS

On Reading Well by Karen Swallow

Steeped In Stories by Mitali Perkins

The Scandal of Holiness by Jessica Hooten Wilson

How To Raise A Reader by Pamela Paul

Honey for a Child’s Heart Updated and Expanded by Gladys Hunt

Mothering by the Book by Jennifer Pepito

FICTION BOOKS

Wonderland Creek by Lynn Austin

The Words between Us by Erin Bartels

The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare by Kimberly Brock

Until Leaves Fall in Paris by Sarah Sundin

The Bookseller’s Promise by Beth Wiseman

Bookshop by the Sea by Denise Hunter

The Librarian of Saint-Malo by Mario Escobar

Bookish People by Susan Coll

Librarian Of Boones Hollow by Kim Sawyer

Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson

#literature #books & libraries #education #reading #literacy #september

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yvonnewilson · 2 years

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(Download PDF) You Bring the Distant Near - Mitali Perkins

Download Or Read PDF You Bring the Distant Near - Mitali Perkins Free Full Pages Online With Audiobook.

[*] Download PDF Here => You Bring the Distant Near

[*] Read PDF Here => You Bring the Distant Near

Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story. Ranee, worried that her children are losing their Indian culture; Sonia, wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair; Tara, seeking the limelight to hide her true self; Shanti, desperately trying to make peace in the family; Anna, fighting to preserve her Bengali identity.

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betsy-tacy-society · 2 years

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Working on Yuletide or NaNoWriMo? Join us for free writers lounges every Sunday in November!

Sign up for a Betsy-Tacy Society membership for $25/year ($10 for teens) and get pep talks from Mitali Perkins, N Griffin, Jen Doll or Claudia Mills, too! All are successful writers AND BT fans!

Register for each week you want to attend: https://www.betsy-tacysociety.org/events/drop-in-writers-lounge

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Today at 1pm Central, our inaugural writer's lounge!!

If you're a Betsy Tacy Society member, at 1pm, Mitali Perkins will be there to inspire and cheer us on. If you're not a member, the room will open around 1:15 for writing time. Come one, come all!

#betsy tacy #maud hart lovelace #mitali perkins #yuletide #yuletide 2022 #nanowrimo

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nanowrimo · 4 years

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“Storytelling is a powerful act. Stories have the mysterious power to widen hearts and change minds. The human psyche is never quite the same after receiving a story.”

—Mitali Perkins, NaNoWriMo Pep Talk author

Read Mitali’s full pep talk here!

#nanowrimo #writing #amwriting #writing inspiration #writing inspo #pep talk #pep talk quote #pep talk quotes #by pep talker #mitali perkins

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theredandwhitequeen · 4 months

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Book 1 of the 50 book challenge. Bamboo people by Mitali Perkins. It’s a good book but sad fiction book about Burma. A young kid forced into the army learning to be a soldier and becoming injured and being helped by the Karenni native group who they were going after. I really liked the book.

#book 1 #50 book challenge #2024 #bamboo people #mitali perkins #Burma #forced army joining #rape #assault #war #Karenni #fiction #book #me

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jamieroxxartist · 1 year

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Today's Episode #1322 of 🎨#JamieRoxx’s Pop Roxx Radio 🎙️#TalkShow and 🎧#Podcast w/ Featured Guest:

#Author Mitali Perkins @mitaliperkins #Writer (#Novel) Rickshaw Girl: #Movie: #Drama, #Family

The Episode has now been converted to a PODCAST and is now archived (for FREE) at: ✔ www.PopRoxxRadio.com

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Pop Art Painter Jamie #Roxx (www.JamieRoxx.us) welcomes #MitaliPerkins Writer (Novel) (#RickshawGirl: Movie: Drama, Family) to the Show!

● WEB: www.mitaliperkins.com ● TW: @MitaliPerkins

Rickshaw Girl: ● WEB: www.rickshawgirlmovie.com ● FB: @RickshawGirlMovie ● IG: @RickshawGirlMovie ● IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt4853244

A daring Bangladeshi teen-aged girl battles the dangers of the big city when she disguises herself as a boy to earn extra cash for her struggling family in the critically acclaimed RICKSHAW GIRL, on Demand December 8 from #SleeperwaveFilms @sleeperwavefilms .

Daring and determined, teenage girl Naima longs to earn money for her poor Bangladeshi family, but her unrivaled artistic talent is of little use. When her father grows gravely ill, Naima feels she has no choice but to leave her small village for the bright lights of Dhaka.

In the big city, Naima finds the same economic, societal, and gender pressures faced by most young girls in Bangladesh. She cleverly disguises herself as a boy and takes the difficult job of a rickshaw puller. When her gender is revealed and her livelihood vanishes, Naima finds an unconventional solution to her problems.

Directed by #AmitabhRezaChowdhury. Starring #NoveraRahman, #NareshBhuiyan, #AllenShubhroGomes, #MomenaChowdhury, and #GulshanChampa. Based on the acclaimed novel by Mitali Perkins. ● Media Inquiries: @OctoberCoastPR octobercoastpr.com

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lakecountylibrary · 3 years

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Highly Recommended Diverse YA Books!

(Editor's note: Image description in alt text. Below summaries provided by publishers)

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

New girl at school Amanda Hardy just wants to make friends and fit in, but the secret she's keeping makes it hard to get too close to anyone. When she starts spending time with easygoing Grant, Amanda realizes just how much she is losing by guarding her heart. But she's terrified that once she tells him the truth, he won't be able to see past it. Because at her old school, she used to be Andrew...

Displacement by Kiku Hughes

Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself "stuck" back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class.

Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Arizona. It's been three years since the ICE raids, since Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother disappeared. Sia knows her mom must be dead, but she drives into the desert to light candles to guide her mom home. One night a blue-lit spacecraft crashes in front of Sia's car-- and it's carrying her mom, who is very much alive. Now she needs to save her mom from the armed, quite-possibly-alien soldiers.

You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins

Ranee worries that her children are losing their Indian culture. Sonia is wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair .Tara seeks the limelight to hide her true self. Shanti desperately tries to make peace in the family. Anna fights to preserve Bengal tigers and her Bengali identity. As each Das woman decides which Bengali traditions to uphold in America, one hard truth remains: some scars take generations to heal.

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

When Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.

If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

In his Brooklyn neighborhood, Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. But now he's going to be attending a fancy prep school in Manhattan, and black teenage boys don't exactly fit in there. So it's a surprise when he meets Ellie the first week of school. In one frozen moment their eyes lock, and after that they know they fit together-- even though she's Jewish and he's black. Their worlds are so different, but to them that's not what matters. Too bad the rest of the world has to get in their way.

See more of Kate's recs

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leezuhh · 5 years

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list of books on my god tier book list (so far):

* theres gonna be a lil ! if there's canon gays, !! if its wlw

- picture us in the light - !

- dante and aristotle discover the secrets of the universe - !

- forward me back to you (i don't know if theres canon gays cuz i haven't finished it yet)

- like the entire second series of wings of fire. the tropes... the twists... the subtle themes and struggles that they all deal with in their own ways ... GOD. also gay dragons? gay dragons - ! !!

- one of us is lying - !

- leah on the offbeat !! / maybe simon vs? but ive only actually read that one once - !

- the raven cycle series - !

- six of crows - ! !!

please add on, i thirst for more books esp gay ones and ESP gay wlw ones

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fiercereadsya · 5 years

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New April Books are here! Which of these new releases are you adding to your TBR?

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