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Thursday, February 08, 2007
Broken China by Lori Aurelia Williams
China, 14, has learned to be a devoted mother after an episode of "messing around" with her best friend, Trip, resulted in her pregnancy two years earlier. Growing up in the same African-American Houstonneighborhood as the characters who peopled Williams's earlier novels, China has never had an easy life, but when her daughter unexpectedly dies, she refuses to rely on any counsel except her own in coping with her heartbreak. Since her mother died years earlier, China has lived with Uncle Simon, who is wheelchair bound. When she insists upon taking a job at a strip club to pay off the baby's funeral bill, he chooses to keep their home life peaceful rather than attempting to control her actions and risk alienating her. Trip stands by her even when she denigrates his mother, refusing to accept her efforts to push him away.
I’m a high school librarian for grades 10 -12 located in Texas.
My library staff and I are always being asked, “What’s a good book?” To help teens learn to read for enjoyment, we decided that we would promote the Tayshas reading program. Tayshas, meaning friendly, is a selected reading list prepared by the Tayshas Committee. The objective of the Tayshas project is to motivate young adults to become life-long readers and to participate in the community of readers in Texas.
On our campus we offer our students a reading incentive program from this list. This program is completely voluntary so that students may select books of their interest and within their limits. Our goal is to have students read the books and tell us their comments and offer other suggestions for similar books.
We hope the students on our campus will participate on our blog page as well as come by and discuss the books with us.
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