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 Mary Schexnayder | Welcome to the New Year of Reading, Dear Friends! We wish you a Happy New Year full of joy, discoveries, adventures, and growth with books of all kinds. For this month of January I, Leilya, invited my students from the young adult literature course to suggest novels of their choice. I wanted you to see what young people choose to read on their own without my gentle push toward one or the other author or book. Today's book suggestion is brought to you by Mary Schexnayder, a teacher candidate at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, LA. Here is Mary's novel choice. |
 Lauren Shippen |  |
The Infinite Noise is Shippen’s debut navel based off her award-winning audio drama series The Bright Sessions.
Lauren Shipen was named one of Forbes's 2018 30 Under 30 in Media and one of Movie Maker Magazine's and Austin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch. She was born in New York City and grew up in Bronxville, New York. She currently lives in Los Angeles but travels frequently to New York. The book is a direct spin-off of the podcast and even includes direct lines of dialogue between Caleb and Dr. Bright
Lauren Shipen was named one of Forbes's 2018 30 Under 30 in Media and one of Movie Maker Magazine's and Austin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch. She was born in New York City and grew up in Bronxville, New York. She currently lives in Los Angeles but travels frequently to New York. The book is a direct spin-off of the podcast and even includes direct lines of dialogue between Caleb and Dr. Bright
Caleb is an atypical teenager, an individual with enhanced abilities. It sounds pretty cool, except Caleb's ability is extreme empathy―he feels the emotions of everyone around him. Being an empath in high school would be hard enough, but Caleb's life becomes even more complicated when he keeps getting pulled into the emotional orbit of one of his classmates, Adam. Adam's feelings are acute and all-consuming, but they fit together with Caleb's feelings in a way that he can't quite understand.
Why would you choose this novel?
- I chose this book because it has creative ways to show how to visualize and process emotions which are important skills for students.
- I really enjoy that it’s a queer novel where “coming out” isn’t the focus of the story and instead dives into the emotional development of the protagonists
- Touches on depression, overstimulation, PTSD, anger management issues, and reality vs. facade.
- The fantasy elements make the exploration of emotion more fun for students and allows the teacher to carefully broach sensitive topics.
- I don’t think it will become a literary classic, but it’s a book that will stay with you in the back of your mind because if readers connect with the characters, the book stays with them.
I hope you will find it relatable and like it as much as I did.
Thank you for reading,
Mary
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