Young Adult Blogger

  This was really hard for me and hard to get a grasp on everything they talked about. I had never heard of the #Metoo movement before I saw this. In the article “ Do works by men implicated in the mee too movement belong in the classroom”  they talk about how authors' works went down because of something they said or did. One that hit me was Mr. Alexie's abuses made his sales go down in his book “the absolute diary of a bardo time Indian”. This was a book I remember reading in 7th grade. It was really good and it was good for teaching teens the importance of family and struggle. I think there is a time when the author of the book and the book have to be separated when things get too serious. The article also talks about  “some argue that tossing out works by men accused of abuse creates an opportunity to break up “the old white guys” club that for too long defined schools reading lists”. I partly agree with this but I also don't. I think it is good to break up the old wh...

I have read the book  Speak and The Diary of a Part-Time Indian and I liked both of them. I read them in high school my freshman year.  I found The Diary of a Part-time Indian to be more interesting though. In case you don't know these books, Speak is about a girl named Melinda who is too scared to tell her story about being raped at the beginning of the summer. She spends most of her time in the janitor's closet and drawing trees in art class. Over the course of the book, Melinda goes through some rough times but eventually comes to terms with what had happened that summer. The Diary of a Part-Time Indian is about a young boy named Junior. He is fourteen and lives on the spokesman Indian reservation in Washington Junior really likes drawing cartoons. It will be his first year attending a school of their reservation but things don't go as planned. Junior gets bullied and his life starts to go downhill,  family and friendships are torn apart and people die. Junior learns...