The Whippoorwill Award Criteria: Analyzing Representations of Rurality in Middle-Grade and Young Adult Literature

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  • The Whippoorwill Award Criteria: Analyzing Rural Representation of Place in Middle Grade and Young Adult Literature
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  • The Whippoorwill Award Criteria: Analyzing Representations of Rurality in Middle-Grade and Young Adult Literature
  • In addition to the quality of the writing, Whippoorwill Award books must: * represent the reality of rural places without overly romanticizing or denigrating a place; * portray characters and settings accurately and authentically in terms of physical characteristics, social and economic statuses, intellectual abilities, and other human attributes; * present in-depth treatment of issues related to rurality, rural sustainability, and/or rural concerns; * avoid stereotypes of rural people and places by representing the complexities of related situations, problems, and/or characters; * contribute to the body of diverse YA literature by providing representations of diverse people and places. [...]in DiCamillo's (2018) Louisiana's Way Home, young Louisiana must figure out what "home" means in the face of poverty and mental illness in rural 1970s Georgia. [...]in Hurricane Child (Callender, 2018), set in the US Virgin Islands and rife with magical realism, 12-year-old Caroline's relationship with her best friend Kalinda is complicated when it starts to feel different than a friendship.

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  • In addition to the quality of the writing, Whippoorwill Award books must: * represent the reality of rural places without overly romanticizing or denigrating a place; * portray characters and settings accurately and authentically in terms of physical characteristics, social and economic statuses, intellectual abilities, and other human attributes; * present in-depth treatment of issues related to rurality, rural sustainability, and/or rural concerns; * avoid stereotypes of rural people and places by representing the complexities of related situations, problems, and/or characters; * contribute to the body of diverse YA literature by providing representations of diverse people and places. [...]in DiCamillo's (2018) Louisiana's Way Home, young Louisiana must figure out what "home" means in the face of poverty and mental illness in rural 1970s Georgia. [...]in Hurricane Child (Callender, 2018), set in the US Virgin Islands and rife with magical realism, 12-year-old Caroline's relationship with her best friend Kalinda is complicated when it starts to feel different than a friendship.
  • The Whippoorwill Award Criteria: Analyzing Representations of Rurality in Middle-Grade and Young Adult Literature

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