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- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
- Absolutely, Positively Not - David LaRochelle
- Zap - Paul Fleischman
- Stay with Me - Garret Freymann-Weyr
- Blow Out the Moon - Libby Koponen
- The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
- American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang
- Kalpana's Dream - Judith Clarke
- The Body of Christpher Creed - Carol Plum-Ucci
- The Canning Season - Polly Horvath
- Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
- Wrecked - E. R. Frank
- Burning City - Ariel & Joaquin Dorfman
- Stuck in Neutral - Terry Trueman
- Criss Cross - Lynne Rae Perkins
- Sandpiper - Ellen Wittlinger
- Looking for Alaska - John Green
- Full Service - Will Weaver
- Black Hole - Charles Burns
- Autobiography of My Dead Brother - Walter Dean Myers
- Geography Club - Brent Hartinger
- So B. It - Sarah Weeks
- A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
- Bound - Donna Jo Napoli
- Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem - Marilyn Nelson
- The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place - E. L. Konigsburg
- Chasing Vermeer - Blue Balliett
- The Gravedigger's Cottage - Chris Lynch
- House of Stairs - William Sleator
- HOOT - Carl Hiaasen
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4 comments:
I became obsessed with all things Disney late in life (about 14 years old), but I've witnessed the princess phase. Personally, Mulan is my favorite of those stories, and she's not even a princess, just a hot chick who dresses in drag to kill the huns and "bring her family honor".
My second-favorite Boston band, Jim's Big Ego has a great song about the reality of being a princess: Prince Charming.
I don't think its necessarily a bad thing to want that stuff as a kid. I adored my cousin's real Barbie house and canopy bed, my classmate's complete MLP collection, and loved dressing up in my friend's sparkly ballet costumes. If Disney princess stuff was for sale when I was 6 it would have been at the top of my wish list. Even my sister had Pink & Pretty Barbie. Anyways, my point is that even though I really really liked that stuff as a kid, I also really really liked 3-2-1 Contact and Square One. Besides I turned out pretty well adjusted even with all my Fashion Star Fillies: http://www.fashionstarfillies.com/originals/niki.htm
Pink and Pretty Barbie is not a princess or even vaguely Disney-related.
She's glamourous.
ah, yes, a subtle difference that even a 6 year-old can tune in to...*cough cousarcasmgh cough*.
Ahem. My point is: we all suffer for fashion to a certain degree. Why blame the industry? Do men have insecurities because they aren't driving that monster Bigfoot truck? Or cause they don't live in a life-size Lincoln Log house? Or cause they don't have a cylindrical yellow head with hair that clips on and off? And yes, I am talking of LEGO people.
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