[ISLMA-Share] Paper Girls Teen Choice Book Abe Lincoln/Teen Choice

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Agreed. It is accurate to how teens interact with each other when we're not
around. It's also a book I've used a couple of times to ease non-readers
into reading, and they have always read it cover to cover. It's a good book
to keep in the library if your goal is to get (and keep) teens reading.

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> I just ordered it and it is flying off my shelves. It was a begged for
> title by several students and I got it. So far, no complaints but I’ll be
> sure to have a good reasoning ready just in case.
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> I felt like it was really accurate to how kids talked, then and now.
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> Lincoln/Teen Choice
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> I have read it. It's set in the 1980's and accurately represents how girls
> talked to each other absent adult authority. (I can say this as someone who
> was a teenager in that decade. Everybody thought we were sweet girls. We
> were, but we could swear like sailors and flipped each other off with
> abandon.)
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> Leah Krippner
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> Librarian, Harlem High School
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> I am currently reading *Dotmeme* by Mike A. Lancaster
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> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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> Hello all-
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> Has anyone read this book yet? It is marked as teen + in titlewave. I
> ordered it and the rest of the series for my high school.
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> It was checked out and returned with a verbal challenge due to content. My
> assistant sent it to me to read.
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> I am not very conservative.  I was shocked by the language inside. Third
> page f%#} you.  Page 5 hell morning. Page 7 g d.  Page 8 faggot. Page 9
> b^%#}.
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> You get the idea. Almost every page has a swear word on it or a rude
> gesture.
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> Originally my comment to the high school was YA fiction contains some
> swear words and some mild sexual situations. Hence the label.  This is on
> pretty much every page.
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> Please share your thoughts. I hate censorship. However, I don’t want to
> spend next year explaining to conservative small town parents why this book
> is at our HS.
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> Thank you
> Kathryn Green
> District Librarian
> OCUSD220
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