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Admission
By: Julie Buxbaum
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
"Deft, page-turning, and fresh as the latest college admissions gossip." —Kirkus Reviews 

"[Buxbaum's] assessment of the entitled 1% feels spot-on." —Publishers Weekly

"Whether or not readers are familiar with the real-life events that inspired the story, they’re likely to find it captivating; the novel goes behind the headlines to add humanity and complexity to a juicy national scandal." —The Horn Book 

Description
Lie. Cheat. Bribe. How far would you go to get into your dream school? How far would your parents go? Inspired by the recent college admissions scandal, this ripped-from-the-headlines YA novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things sees one teenage girl's privileged world shatter when her family's lies are exposed.

It's good to be Chloe Wynn Berringer--she has it all--money, privilege, and a ticket to the college of her dreams. Or at least she did until the FBI came knocking on her front door, guns at the ready, and her future went up in smoke. Now her B list celebrity mother is under arrest in a massive college admissions bribery scandal, and Chloe might be the next one facing charges. The public is furious, the headlines are brutal, and the US attorney is out for blood.

As everything she's taken for granted starts to slip away, Chloe must reckon not only with the truth of what happened, but also with the examination of her own guilt. How much did she really know-or guess? Why did her parents think the only way for her to succeed was to cheat? And what does it really mean to be complicit?

Bestselling author Julie Buxbaum takes on the college admissions bribery scandal that rocked the country in this timely tale of the hyper elite and the hyper competitive, and the lengths they go to stay at the top.

Admission By Julie Buxbaum (Audiobook Excerpt)

⭑ "Debut author Aleman was born in Mexico and his writing is stellar, clear and emotional, realistic and suspenseful. The story is complex and heart-wrenching, yet full of hope and familial love, making this an excellent choice even for younger YA readers." —Booklist

This timely, moving debut novel follows a teen's efforts to keep his family together as his parents face deportation.

Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Over the past few years, however, the fear that their undocumented immigrant parents could be sent back to Mexico has started to fade. Ma and Pa have been in the United States for so long, they have American-born children, and they're hard workers and good neighbors. When Mateo returns from school one day to find that his parents have been taken by ICE, he realizes that his family's worst nightmare has become a reality. With his parents' fate and his own future hanging in the balance, Mateo must figure out who he is and what he is capable of, even as he's forced to question what it means to be an American.

Daniel Aleman's Indivisible is a remarkable story—both powerful in its explorations of immigration in America and deeply intimate in its portrait of a teen boy driven by his fierce, protective love for his parents and his sister.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3uyfJJh

Daniel Aleman discusses INDIVISIBLE

October 6, 2021 — Winner of the National Book Award, the Newbery Medal, and a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, Virginia Hamilton (1934–2002) wove Black folktales and narratives of African American life and history into a body of work that forever changed American children’s writing and made her its most honored writer.

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden joins award-winning children’s book author and memoirist Jacqueline Woodson (Brown Girl Dreaming) for a conversation about Hamilton’s life and wildly inventive novels, newly collected in a Library of America volume edited by Hamilton biographer Julie K. Rubini.

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BookNet Canada invites Canadian publishing superstars Allister Thompson, Leonicka Valcius, and Rachel Letofski to discuss the growing trend of adults purchasing Young Adult books for themselves, but misidentifying the target audience for those books as adult. 

According to a report put out by BookNet Canada entitled The Canadian Book Buyer 2015, consumers think they're buying 14% juvenile and 50% fiction, though 2014 purchasing trends indicate consumers are buying 38% juvenile and 31% fiction. Does this variance indicate that adults are trending towards juvenile without realizing it?

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2015/12/14/podcast-more-adults-are-buying-ya-books-for-their-own-reading-enjoyment-but-do-they-realize-its-ya).

More adults are buying YA books for their own reading enjoyment, but do they realize it's YA?

LitBit Episode 1:  "Engagement with Young Adult Literature" by Ivey and Johnston

Katie Thomas and Brooke Cunningham from the University of Tennessee PhD in young adult literature program discuss Ivey and Johnston's "Engagement with Young Adult Literature: Outcomes and Processes" as well as talk about what young adult literature they have been reading.

*There are a few bugs in our audio, but we will have that fixed by our next podcast!

Study Citation: 
Ivey, G., & Johnston, P.H. (2013). Engagement with young adult literature: Outcomes and processes. Reading Research Quarterly, 48(3), 255-275.

Links to Books Mentioned:

Mosquitoland by David Arnold
http://www.amazon.com/Mosquitoland-David-Arnold/dp/045147077X

Books by Rita Williams-Garcia
http://www.amazon.com/Rita-Williams-Garcia/e/B00BJ8QIEE/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1459115614&sr=1-2-ent




LitBit Episode 1: "Engagement with Young Adult Literature" by Ivey and Johnston

Russell Freedman, Ruth Belov Gross, Susan Kuklin, Ellen Levine, and Miriam Schlein talk about their approaches to writing non-fiction for children. They discuss the visual aspects of non-fiction books such as photographs, the language and content, and how they include certain aspects of their subjects and topics. The panel is moderated by Eva Moore and is introduced by Steven Kroll.

Panel: Writing Non-Fiction for Children, 1/23/1991

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