Books on Trial: Hold Fast and Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Hold Fast: Even though it was first published in 1978, Kevin Major's Hold Fast remains a popular title in book sales and on lists of challenged books. The story is set in Newfoundland and centres around fourteen-year-old Michael who has just lost his parents in a car crash caused by a drunk dri...
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ftdalhouseuniv:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/127 2023-05-15T17:22:01+02:00 Books on Trial: Hold Fast and Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Bartlett, Rebecca Castleton, Jennie Di Nardo, Bianca Larocque, Jessica McCoubrey, Katharine Dalhousie University. School of Information Management. 2011-12-12 application/pdf https://ojs.library.dal.ca/YAHS/article/view/127 eng eng YA Hotline https://ojs.library.dal.ca/YAHS/article/view/127/161 https://ojs.library.dal.ca/YAHS/article/view/127 YA Hotline; No 75 (2005): Access Denied: Controversy and Censorship in Young Adult Fiction 0701-8894 young adult literature censorship info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2011 ftdalhouseuniv 2022-02-21T08:35:33Z Hold Fast: Even though it was first published in 1978, Kevin Major's Hold Fast remains a popular title in book sales and on lists of challenged books. The story is set in Newfoundland and centres around fourteen-year-old Michael who has just lost his parents in a car crash caused by a drunk driver.Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging is our first introduction to 14-year-old Georgia, who many readers have since revisited in Rennison's subsequent novels. This book captures the life of a teenaged girl who is like the majority of teenagers today; she hates school, experiments with make-up and ways of hiding aspects of her physical appearance that she doesn't like, and obsesses over boys. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland Dalhousie University Libraries Journal Hosting Service |
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Hold Fast: Even though it was first published in 1978, Kevin Major's Hold Fast remains a popular title in book sales and on lists of challenged books. The story is set in Newfoundland and centres around fourteen-year-old Michael who has just lost his parents in a car crash caused by a drunk driver.Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging is our first introduction to 14-year-old Georgia, who many readers have since revisited in Rennison's subsequent novels. This book captures the life of a teenaged girl who is like the majority of teenagers today; she hates school, experiments with make-up and ways of hiding aspects of her physical appearance that she doesn't like, and obsesses over boys. |
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YA Hotline; No 75 (2005): Access Denied: Controversy and Censorship in Young Adult Fiction 0701-8894 |
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