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02767aam a2200385 i 4500 001 29E12608C93111E88539171297128E48 003 SILO 005 20181006010511 008 180804s2018 oru j 000 0deng d 010 $a 2018025530 020 $a 1947793055 : PAP 020 $a 9781947793057 : PAP 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c LBSOR $d DLC $d NjBwBT $d SILO 050 00 $a HQ798 $b .G589 2018 082 00 $a 305.235/20973 $2 23 100 $a Girls Write Now (COR) 245 00 $a Girls write now : $b two decades of true stories from young female voices. 250 $a First US edition. 264 1 $a Portland, Oregon : $b Tin House Books, $c 2018. 300 $a xiii, 316 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "Teenage girls tell their most urgent stories in personal essays, punctuated by inspiration and advice from Zadie Smith, Roxane Gay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, and more of today's great writers. Girls Write Now: Two Decades ofTrue Stories from Young Female Voices offers a brave and timely portrait of teenage-girl life in the United States over the past twenty years. They're working part-time jobs to make ends meet, deciding to wear a hijab to school, sharing a first kiss, coming out to their parents, confronting violence and bullying, and immigrating to a new country while holding onto their heritage. Through it all, these young writers tackle issues of race, gender, poverty, sex, education, politics, family, and friendship.Together their narratives capture indelible snapshots of the past and lay bare hopes, insecurities, and wisdom for the future. Interwoven is advice from great women writers, Roxane Gay, Francine Prose, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zadie Smith, Quiara AlegriaHudes, Janet Mock, Gloria Steinem, Lena Dunham, Mia Alvar, and Alice Walker, offering guidance to a young reader about where she's been and where she might go. Inspiring and informative, Girls Write Now belongs in every school, library and home, adding much-needed and long-overdue perspectives on what it is to be young in America"-- $c Provided by publisher. 521 2 $a 009-012. 650 0 $a Teenage girls $z United States $x Social life and customs $v Juvenile literature. 650 0 $a Teenage girls $z United States $v Juvenile literature. $v Juvenile literature. 650 1 $a Teenage girls $x Social life and customs. 650 1 $a Teenage girls $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 6 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230808011319.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20230201013455.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20210612010312.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20200829014738.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20181024011024.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006121358.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=29E12608C93111E88539171297128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search