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Almost a Senior de Brenda Faye Collie

Almost a Senior

Autor Brenda Faye Collie
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 sep 2012
This is the story of the soon to be 17-year-old Loresha Evans, a junior in high school who has just won the election for student body president. She learns from the difficulty of leading a reluctant student council and non-caring student body the importance of patience and diplomacy. Loresha's social status changes and she becomes a member of the school's "in crowd". The price is the loss of her best friend. She experiences her first love, but is he right for her? Loresha's time in office as Major Horris High School's student president brings her face to face with school politics and personal challenges. This is the first book of the Loresha Evans trilogy.
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ISBN-13: 9780963217776
ISBN-10: 0963217771
Pagini: 214
Dimensiuni: 109 x 171 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Daylight Books

Notă biografică

Ms. Brenda Faye Collie, African American novelist, was born in Harlem, New York, in 1951. She began writing in fourth grade and graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School in 1969. She received a BA in theatre from Hampshire College, an MA in theatre arts from the University of Connecticut, and an MFA in playwriting from the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of the Lorraine Hansberry prize for drama in 1980 and has had several of her plays produced. She has also written for television. "Almost a Senior "is her first novel. She is a member of two drama groups, teaches creative writing, and is a school mentor for the New York City Board of Education. Brenda lives and teaches in New York City.

Recenzii

Teacher and award-winning playwright Brenda Faye Collie introduces feisty high-school junior Loresha in Almost A Senior, the first volume of a planned trilogy. As the newly elected student-body president at fictional Major Horris High School in Harlem, sixteen-year-old Loresha is bright and determined, ready to make her mark on the world. Facing the challenges and temptations of adolescence, she sometimes gets it right, sometimes makes poor choices, but, ultimately, finds her way.Collie depicts Loresha admirably, creating an appealing character to whom teenagers will relate. At home, Loresha is the responsible one, watching out for both her single mother, who works nights at a bar, and her older brother, who is on probation but working on both his GED and a new career path. Determined to a forge a better life for her whole family, Loresha can be self-righteous and rather pushy, giving advice and feeling exasperated when her mother and brother do not seem to heed her encouraging words." Even so, theirs is a close, loving family. They take pride in one another's accomplishments and support each other in times of need, something that Loresha eventually realizes is more important than anything else in her life. At school, Loresha faces typical adolescent dilemmas and dramas, which are compounded by her position as a student leader. Peer pressure, friendship and betrayal, alcohol and drugs, and dating and sex all play key roles in her junior year, and Loresha is not immune to temptation or regret. Collie addresses numerous delicate issues, treating them both sensitively and realistically. She guides Loresha through some bad decisions, illustrating the costs and consequences of those decisions and the lessons learned from them. Readers will empathize with Loresha when she occasionally makes the wrong choice, and they'll will understand how she responds after the fact. When, following a series of particularly trying events, Loresha finds herself wondering "if every