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            6 Articles Tagged Coming-of-Age

            First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            January 21 2022

            Tara Westover’s Special Message to Students (Educated, Now Available in Paperback)

            Educated,  now available in paperback, is an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University. One of the most acclaimed books of our time, it has been taught in classrooms across the country and been selected for common

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            Tara Westover’s Special Message to Students (Educated, Now Available in Paperback)

            First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            January 21 2022
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            August 8 2019

            Read an Excerpt From Brandon Hobson’s Where the Dead Sit Talking

            Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson explores the themes of loneliness and trauma as a young Native American boy named Sequoyah experiences life in the foster care system. This 2018 National Book Award Finalist is about a broken teenager’s search for his identity and the hardships of being displaced. Sequoyah lives his life always keeping his feelings buried, until he is placed with the Troutt family. There he meets Rosemary, a friend and confidant who, like him, is a Native American child living in the foster care system.

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            Read an Excerpt From Brandon Hobson’s Where the Dead Sit Talking

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            August 8 2019
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            First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            August 9 2018

            Tara Westover Talks to Students and Teachers about Education: Watch Now!

            Tara Westover speaks to students and teachers at the Academy of American Studies in Long island City, NY, about her memoir, EDUCATED.

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            Tara Westover Talks to Students and Teachers about Education: Watch Now!

            First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            August 9 2018
            Imbolo Mbue
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            April 10 2017

            BEHOLD THE DREAMERS Author Imbolo Mbue on College and the Immigrant Experience

            I was born in Cameroon and moved to the United States after high school to attend college. Having never been that far from home, I was extremely homesick in my first months in the country (it didn’t help that the weather was too cold for my liking). That all changed when I arrived at college.

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            BEHOLD THE DREAMERS Author Imbolo Mbue on College and the Immigrant Experience

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            April 10 2017
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            March 13 2017

            You Can Save Lives with This Community Read

            by DONNA GEPHART, author of Lily and Dunkin (Delacorte Press, May 2016)   I’m not going to sugarcoat this. The statistic is grim and the stories behind it heartbreaking. Forty-three percent of transgender young people try to kill themselves. Why? Here’s one story: Because her parents isolated her from supportive friends and adults, refused to accept

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            You Can Save Lives with This Community Read

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            March 13 2017
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            December 9 2015

            A Father Speaks Out About His Transgender Daughter & Their Family Journey

            By Wayne Maines, father of Nicole Maines.  The Maines family is the focus of Amy Ellis Nutt’s Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family (Random House, October 2015) Recently I had the opportunity to speak at Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine. Before the lecture I spent an hour walking around their beautiful campus, thinking

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            A Father Speaks Out About His Transgender Daughter & Their Family Journey

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