61. “Floating Without A Mother: Missing Mothers In Young Adult Fiction” terris, susan. Author! Author! New York Farrar, 1990. Thesman, Jean. The Rain Catchers. Boston Houghton, 1991. Tolan, Stephanie. http://www.viterbo.edu/personalpages/faculty/Gsmith/FloatingWithoutaMother.htm

Floating Without a Mother: Missing Mothers in Young Adult Fiction” Grant T. Smith, Ph. D. Viterbo University La Crosse Wisconsin Atlanta NCTE Conference—November 21-26 I began thinking seriously about the convention of “missing mothers” in young adult fiction a few months ago while I was teaching a class titled: Literature for Young People at Viterbo University The class was comprised primarily of middle school and secondary school education majors as well as several “media specialist” majors. And there were also a few students who said they missed out on young adult literature in high school because they were either “late readers” or readers who took the AP Honors track and thus read Heart of Darkness instead of The Chocolate Wars It was perhaps the liveliest class I have ever taught. All of the students voiced strong opinions about the books we read in class. No one was reluctant to share personal (even intimate) responses to Jacob Have I Loved Black Boy , and Annie on My Mind Thus I was not surprised when one day a student raised her hand and asked a question that generated much discussion and thought: “Dr. Smith,” she asked, “Why is it that so many of the books we read in this class have a missing mother?”

62. Susan Terris In 1988, Timeless Press undertook a daunting mission to publish exceptional new American poetry, not as an amateur enterprise but as a fullfledged http://timebeing.com/home/profile-terris.htm

Susan Terris Susan Terris's poetry books include Natural Defenses (Marsh Hawk Press), Fire Is Favorable to the Dreamer (Arctos Press), Poetic License (Adastra Press), Curved Space (La Jolla Poets Press), and Eye of the Holocaust (Arctos Press). Her work has appeared in Iowa Review, Field, Calyx, The Journal, Colorado Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Denver Quarterly, Southern California Anthology , and Ploughshares . With CB Follett, she is coeditor of an annual anthology

63. Body Image terris, susan Nell s Quilt (1987); Townsend, Sue. Adrian Mole Diaries (the first two in particular) are absolute sinkholes of male insecurity, and hilarious http://nancykeane.com/rl/249.htm

Body Image Contributor's Form (list #249) Fiction Anderson, M.T. Feed (2002) Atkins, Catherine Alt Ed (2003) Bauer, Joan Rules of the Road (1998) Bauer, Joan Squashed (1992) Bauer, Joan Stand Tall (2002) Bellairs, John. Lewis Barnavelt books Bennett, Cherie Life in the Fat Lane (1998) Bussell, Rebecca. BATHING UGLY Collins, Pat The Fattening Hut (2003) Covington, Dennis Lizard (1991) Crutcher, Chris Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes (1993) Dessen, Sarah Keeping the Moon (1999) Eliot, Eve Ravenous (2002) Elish, Dan Born Too Short (2002) Fenner, Carolyn. Lovely novel Yolanda's Genius includes a teenage girl who is over weight and African American. The girl's weight problems are not the story's major focus, but the character certainly has an awareness of her size. I saw at least one cover for the novel that showed the heroine as only the merest bit pudgy and had my usual fizzle of frustration with publisher's who misrepresent characters and content. Fitzhugh, Louize NOBODY'S FAMILY IS GOING TO CHANGE.

64. Power And Hunger: Self-will And Self-starvation In The Novels And Lives Of Emily terris, susan. Nell s Quilt. New York Sunburst, 1996. Vine, Steven. Bronte, Emily Jane. Date unknown. University of Swansea. http://www.shutitdown.net/text/powerhunger.html

www.shutitdown.net contact: lina Power and Hunger: Self-will and self-starvation in the novels and lives of Emily and Charlotte Bronte. In his book, Holy Anorexia , Rudolph Bell sites a case of anorexia in a 20 year old girl from as early as 1686 (3). In fact, eating disorders were fairly common in the time leading up to the Brontë's era, although the motivations behind them were often quite dissimilar. Today, young women are often driven to starve themselves because, "they must conform to an impossible, media-driven standard of beauty which holds that 'you can never be too thin.'" (Orenstein 94) In the 18th and 19th century, however, thinness was not an ideal to strive towards, and the psychology behind fasting and starvation was oftentimes more complicated. Purely religious reasons were not always behind a woman's fastingit was often used as a means to exert control by women who were essentially powerless in their societies. Bemporad sites one of these cases which took place in the Dark Ages; a young woman who was betrothed by her father against her wishes, starves herself until she becomes so unattractive that her suitor refuses to marry her (3). This theme occurs in literature about the 19th century as well; in a popular young adult novel set in 1899, the heroine starves herself to the brink of death after being forced into an engagement that she finds unbearable (Terris).

65. NJSL Youth Services terris, susan. Nell s Quilt. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1987. (Gr. 7+). Urged at the age of eighteen to marry a man she doesn t want, Nell delays the event by http://www.njyac.org/booklists/njtop-4.php

Authors A-E Authors F-J Authors K-P Complete List (pdf) Best YA Novels (According to New Jersey Librarians) New Jersey Librarians on the NJYAC listserv were polled for their top ten young adults novels. Titles receiving more than one vote are starred. With seven votes, the top title is Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier, M. T. Anderson's Feed , S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders and Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher received five votes apiece. Randle, Kristen D. Breaking Rank. Morrow Junior Books, 1999. (Gr. 9+) Seventeen-year-old Casey has some of her preconceived notions challenged when she begins to tutor Baby, a member of a ganglike non-conformist society called the Clan. Rennison, Louise. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging. (and sequels) HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. (Gr. 7-10) Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie. Rinaldi, Ann.

66. AR:STUV Shreve, susan. Blister 5.4 4 The Gift of the Girl Who Couldn t Hear 6.4 - 2 . terris, susan. Nell s Quilt 4.8 - 6 http://www.vinton-shellsburg.k12.ia.us/tms/seventh/rdg7/ar/stuv.html

Accelerated Reader Test List Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School Vinton, Iowa A B C D ... X-Y-Z (List of tests available arranged alphabetically by authors.) Visit the Accelerated Reader site to find other tests available. -S- Sachar, Louis The Boy Who Lost His Face [4.0 - 6] Dogs Don't Tell Jokes [3.8 - 5] Sixth Grade Secrets [5.5 - 6] There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom [4.7 - 6] - Holes [4.5 - 7] - Small Steps [4.2 - 7] - Marvin Redpost: Alone in His Teacher's House [2.9 - 1] - Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at Birth? [2.8 - 1] - Marvin Redpost: Why Pick on Me? [2.7 - 1] Sideways Stories from Wayside School [3.3 - 3] Wayside School Is Falling Down [3.4 - 4] Sachs, Betsy The Boy Who Ate Dog Biscuits [2.6 - 1] Sachs, Marilyn At the Sound of the Beep [4.8 - 7] Circles [6.5 - 6] A Pocket Full of Seeds [4.0 - 4] Sagan, Carl Contact [9.0 - 27] Saint-Exupery, Antoine The Little Prince [8.2 - 4] Salisbury, Graham Under the Blood-Red Sun [5.4 - 10] Sanders, Dori

67. GRADE TITLE AUTHOR LEVEL POINTS M. C. Higgins, The Great Hamilton Nell s Quilt, terris, susan, 6, 7. Nelson Mandela, Roberts, Jack, 6, 1. Nettie s Trip South, Turner, Ann, 3, 0.5. Never Cry Wolf, Mowat, Farley, 7.5, 10 http://ww4.fsusd.k12.ca.us/schools/sullivan/AR/Ar_t_m-r.htm

GRADE TITLE AUTHOR LEVEL POINTS M. C. Higgins, the Great Hamilton, Virginia Macbeth Shakespeare, William Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood Korman, Gordon Machine Gunners, The Westall, Robert Madam C.J. Walker Colman, Penny Magic Box, The Brenner, Barbara Magic by the Lake Eager, Edward Magic Kingdom for Sale-Sold! Brooks, Terry Magic Paper, The Reiff, Tana Magician's Nephew, The Lewis, C.S. Main Street Lewis, Sinclair Mairelon the Magician Wrede, Patricia Maizon at Blue Hill Woodson, Jacqueline Make Lemonade Wolff, Virginia Making Room for Katherine Mulford, Philippa maldición de la momia, La Stine, R.L Maltese Falcon, The Hammett, Dashiell Man from Skibbereen, The L'Amour, Louis Man from the Other Side, The Orlev, Uri Man Who Loved Clowns, The Wood, June Rae Maniac Magee Spinelli, Jerry Mansion in the Mist Bellairs, John Many Waters L'Engle, Madeleine

68. Quilts And Quilters:Print Resources terris, susan. Nell s Quilt. Sunburst, 1996. Tiffault, Benette W., Mary McConnell (Illustrator). A Quilt for Elizabeth. Centering Corporation, Omaha, NB, http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/art/htmls/ks_resource.html

Quilt Resources and Bibliography Baker, Martha. "Trapunto: A Gift of Light and Shadow." Piecework , Jan/Feb, 1995. p. 60-65. Benberry, Cuesta R. and Carol P. Crabb. A Patchwork of Pieces: An Anthology of Early Quilt Stories, 1845-1940 . American Quilter's Society, Paducah, KY, 1993. Brackman, Barbara. Clues in the Calico: A Guide to Identifying and Dating Antique Quilts . EPM Publications, 1989. a definitive source on the subject. Brackman, Barbara. Quilts from the Civil War: Nine Projects, Historic Notes, Diary Entries . American Quilter's Society. Quilt projects are modern reproductions of Civil War era historical quilts Burke, Doreen Bulger, et al. In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement . The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1987. p. 105. Large, beautiful volume on turn-of-the-century style in furniture, textiles, etc., that mentions possible origins and growth of crazy quilt fad. Decker, Andrew. "White Stuffed Work." Traditional Home Holiday , 1994. p. 96-99. Eikmeier, Barbara J. Kids Can Quilt . American Quilter's Society, Paducah, KY, 1997. includes directions for 13 blocks and how-to lessons

69. Horizon Information Portal 9. terris, Nell s quilt /, terris, susan. cl, yafic. 10. Terrorism, Terrorism pamphlet file, Pamphlet file, cl, pam. Prev 10 Call No. Next 10 Call No. http://ipac.ccpl.ci.corpus-christi.tx.us/ipac20/ipac.jsp?index=CALLDD&term=teres

70. Title Author Lexile Guided Reading Level Reading Level Point Level Octopus Pie, terris, susan, 5.1, 4.0, Search the Catalog. Officer Buckle And Gloria, Rathmann, Peggy, 510.0, J, 2.5, 2.0, Search the Catalog http://www.cbpl.lib.ia.us/AR/wa.php?Searchby_OPER=&Limit_OPER=&Search=&page=117

71. New Perspectives In Young Adult Literature | ALAN Review | Find Articles At BNET terris, susan. (1987). Nell s Quilt. New York Farrar, Straus Giroux. Valentine, Johnny. (1994). One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4063/is_200310/ai_n9253875/pg_8

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72. Susan Konig On Terri Schiavo On National Review Online Watching Terri Schiavo s tragedy unfold in front of the world, I think of the videotape where her mom moves her daughter s head to be able to look into her http://www.nationalreview.com/skonig/konig200503251318.asp

cddcodebase = "/";cddcodebase454632 = "/"; HELP E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend ... Print Version March 25, 2005, 1:18 p.m. Terri Schiavo, daughter. W hen I saw The Passion of the Christ It was so moving because it was so right. Director Mel Gibson imagined this meeting, the dialogue. But how precise. What else is a mother to do? Some say Terri is not cognizant of anything going on around her and that her expressions are just reflexes. Tell that to any mom whose baby smiles for the first time and hears from the "sage" onlooker, "It's just gas, babies can't smile." Baloney. Mothers know differently. Now with the super-level sonograms, we even see photos of babies smiling in the womb. We've seen the famous photo of the baby, being operated on in utero, reaching out of its mother's womb to grasp the doctor's gloved finger. A need for human contact or just a reflex? Humans, in all stages of development, display their natural yearning for a human touch, a soft word, a smile. I've been married to my husband for 14 years and I trust him implicitly. I trust him with the lives of our children. We named each other as the responsible parties in our wills. We filled out those living wills less than two years ago at the suggestion of our lawyer but I can't remember what I said. Probably that I would want them to hook me up to as many machines as they could find while they tried to figure out what was wrong with me. If I become that ill, I figure the Lord will take me if He wants me. In any case, the wills are in the filing cabinet if push comes to shove.

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