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Labels in teen Fiction

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Exploring Labels & Stereotypes in Teen Fiction

 

The Go-Between by Veronica Chambers

  • Pub Date: 2017
  • Middle and high school interest
  • Cammi, whose mother is a famous telanovela star, finds she is not what her classmates expect a Mexican immigrant to be. 

 

Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg

  • Pub Date: 2013
  • High school interest
  • See also: Secrets 
  • Rafe doesn't tell anyone that he is gay at his new school to avoid being stereotyped as "the gay kid." 

 

I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl by Gretchen McNeil

  • Pub Date: 2016
  • High school interest
  • See also: Cliques/Popularity 
  • Bea decides to use a formula to break into the popular crowd. 

 

Shark Girl by  Kelly Binghm

  • Pub Date: 2007
  • Middle and high school interest
  • See also: Art, Disabilities 
  • On the Blog: Formerly Shark Girl 
  • Jane struggles with being known for losing her arm in a shark attack and the desire to be more than that label.

 

Grrrls on the Side by Carrie Pack

 

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