Cosmos Coyote And William The Nice

Author : Jim Heynen
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781466874411

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Cosmos Coyote and William the Nice by Jim Heynen Pdf

In this truly modern teenage love story, spirituality and sensuality burn equally bright. "I have these two characters I hide behind. The real one is Cosmos Coyote and the phony one is William the Nice. But sometimes I get them mixed up, like now and almost all the time when I'm with you." Cosmos DeHaag is a fast-thinking, law-bending, teenage songwriter from Seattle. In trouble with the law, he is sent to live with his conservative Christian relatives in Iowa and he splits his personality in two: William the Nice will play along, while Cosmos Coyote stays true. When he meets Cherlyn, a beautiful charismatic Christian, their passion takes them both by surprise and the lines between truth and falsehood, Cosmos and William, begin to blur. Now even Cosmos himself is unsure: is he being true when he lies, or lying when he's being true? Jim Heynen explores teenage passion and spiritual yearning in Cosmos Coyote and William the Nice, a book for older teens that breaks boundaries and will entrance readers.

Author : Jim Heynen
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0613715136

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Cosmos Coyote and William the Nice by Jim Heynen Pdf

When sent to live on a farm in Iowa as an alternative to juvenile detention, seventeen-year-old Cosmos falls in love with a religious girl and reconsiders his values and beliefs.

Author : David R. Pichaske
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587296734

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Rooted by David R. Pichaske Pdf

David Pichaske has been writing and teaching about midwestern literature for three decades. In Rooted, by paying close attention to text, landscape, and biography, he examines the relationship between place and art. His focus is on seven midwestern authors who came of age toward the close of the twentieth century, their lives and their work grounded in distinct places: Dave Etter in small-town upstate Illinois; Norbert Blei in Door County, Wisconsin; William Kloefkorn in southern Kansas and Nebraska; Bill Holm in Minneota, Minnesota; Linda Hasselstrom in Hermosa, South Dakota; Jim Heynen in Sioux County, Iowa; and Jim Harrison in upper Michigan. The writers' intimate knowledge of place is reflected in their use of details of geography, language, environment, and behavior. Yet each writer reaches toward other geographies and into other dimensions of art or thought: jazz music and formalism in the case of Etter; gender issues in the case of Hasselstrom; time past and present in the case of Kloefkorn; ethnicity and the role of the artist in the case of Blei; magical realism in the case of Heynen; the landscape of literature in the case of Holm; and the curious worlds of academia, best-selling novels, and Hollywood films in the case of Harrison. The result, Pichaske notes, is the growing away from roots, the explorations and alter egos of these writers of place, and the tension between the “here” and “there” that gives each writer's art the complexity it needs to transcend provincial boundaries. Quoting generously from the writers, Pichaske employs a practical, jargon-free literary analysis fixed in the text, making Rooted interesting, readable, and especially useful in treating the literary categories of memoir and literary essay that have become important in recent decades.

Author : Patty Campbell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781442252394

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Spirituality in Young Adult Literature by Patty Campbell Pdf

In a time when almost any gritty topic can be featured in a young adult novel, there is one subject that is avoided by writers and publishers. Faith and belief in God seldom appear in traditional form in novels for teens. The lack of such ideas in mainstream adolescent literature can be interpreted by teens to mean that these matters are not important. Yet a significant part of growing up is struggling with issues of spirituality. The underlying problem, of course, is that there are so few writers who are willing to talk to teenagers about God, even indirectly, or who themselves have the religious literacy for the task. Spirituality in Young Adult Literature: The Last Taboo tackles a subject rarely portrayed in fiction aimed at teens. In this volume, Patty Campbell examines not only realistic fiction, but young adult literature that deals with mysticism, apocalyptical end times, and even YA novels that depict the Divine Encounter. Campbell maintains that fantasy works are inherently spiritual, because the plots nearly always progress toward a showdown between good and evil. As such, the author surmises that the popularity of fantasy among teens may represent their interest in the mystical dimensions of faith and the otherworldly. In this study, Campbell examines works of fiction that express perspectives from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism. Distinguished YA novelist Chris Crowe provides a chapter on Mormon values and Mormon YA authors and how their novels integrate those values into their books. By looking at how spirituality is represented in novels aimed at teens, this book asks what progress, if any, has been made in slaying the taboo. Although most of the books discussed in this study are recent, an appendix lists YA books from 1967 to the present that have dealt with issues of faith. A timely look at an important subject, Spirituality in Young Adult Literature will be of interest to young adult librarians, junior and senior high school teachers, and students and instructors of college courses in adolescent literature, as well as to parents of teens.

Author : Jim Heynen
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781627798228

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Being Youngest by Jim Heynen Pdf

"It's not as if grown-ups will let you be average if you're youngest. If you're not fat, they call you Skinny or Bones. If you're not skinny, they call you Hippo or Tubby." Henry and Gretchen are the youngest children in two Iowa farm families. Being youngest, they get left out, blamed, ignored, and picked on all the time. At least that's how, being youngest, they tend to see it. In a summer filled with change, Henry and Gretchen swap stories, become friends, fight with their older brothers and sister, and get to know the odd old couple down the road. Between the old fan's habit of plucking nails out of the ground and the old woman's weird "children" who are kept locked in a room upstairs, they are strange enough. But are they just strange, or could the old folks actually be dangerous? Jim Heynen's story of one farm summer has fun, humor, some scary moments, and many wonderful insights into what being youngest means. "Before Henry and Gretchen went their separate ways, they didn't compare the stories they were going to tell at home. They did agree they'd tell something--but not all. They both had learned to hide the best part. They knew that to keep a secret you had to hide it down a blind alley of stories that are only part of what happened. You didn't want to pretend that nothing happened. Too much silence was like honey to a hungry bear, and grown-ups were bound to start pawing around in it. It was best to throw them a few scraps of the truth to keep them away from the real honey of what you did."

Author : Mark Christopher Allister
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813923050

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Eco-man by Mark Christopher Allister Pdf

Many canonical literary works look to the wild as the site for establishing a man's selfhood. But nature is just as often subjected to his most violent displays of mastery. This tension lies at the heart of 'Eco-Man', which brings together two rapidly growing fields: men's studies and ecocriticism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1520 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Books
ISBN : UVA:X004667564

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Book Review Index by Anonim Pdf

Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Best books
ISBN : UOM:39015078851527

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Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822032002537

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2542 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015078261933

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Book Review Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jim Heynen
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781571318695

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The Fall of Alice K. by Jim Heynen Pdf

Seventeen-year-old Alice Marie Krayenbraak is beautiful, witty, a star student, and a gifted athlete. On the surface, she has it all. But in Alice’s hometown of Dutch Center, Iowa, nothing is as it seems. Behind the façade of order and tidiness, the family farm is failing. Alice’s mother is behaving strangely amid apocalyptic fears of Y2K. And her parents have announced their plans to send her special-needs sister Aldah away. On top of it all, the uniformly Dutch Calvinist town has been rattled by an influx of foreign farm workers. It’s the fall of senior year, and Alice now finds herself at odds with both family and cultural norms when she befriends and soon falls in love with Nickson Vang, the son of Hmong immigrants. Caught in a period of personal and community transformation, Alice and Nickson must navigate their way through vastly different traditions while fighting to create new ones of their own. Funny and provocative, amusing and unsettling, The Fall of Alice K. marks a watershed moment in the publishing career of author, Jim Heynen.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : UCLA:L0082290974

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Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Anne Nichols
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015055086006

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Merchandising Library Materials to Young Adults by Mary Anne Nichols Pdf

The first available book for young adult librarians who need to learn the marketing and merchandising techniques that will make library materials more attractive and accessible to teens.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : UOM:39015078848499

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The Horn Book Guide to Children's and Young Adult Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1364 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Children's libraries
ISBN : PSU:000047185500

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School Library Journal by Anonim Pdf