[LM_NET] Urban fiction....your opinion please!

["Armatti, Cayla - Lake Weir High School" <Cayla.Armatti@MARION.K12.FL.US>]

I'm wanting opinions on the Kimani Tru books and the G-Unit books for public high 
school library. I am pretty open minded, generally look at the outcome of the 
story. Looking for Alaska was highly reviwed and had a fairly clear oral sex scene; 
but of course I have those reviews to back me up.  I want my kids to read.....I buy 
most of what is on the YALSA reluctant readers list....but many students complain 
that there is a lack of teen romance in my library (I do not have the Gossip GIrls 
type books) and also so hard to get minority boys to read.   I figure if 50 Cent 
writes a book, that is one big step toward him making reading "cool" for these kids.
 
I have all of the Draper, Myers, Flake, Woodson, etc books;  it still seems that 
decent minority fiction is hard to come by.
 
Cayla Armatti 
Library Media Specialist 
Lake Weir High School Ocala, Florida 
(352) 671-4820, or 5-8971 
cayla.armatti@marion.k12.fl.us <mailto:cayla.armatti@marion.k12.fl.us>  
I'm reading The Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick. How about you? 

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