Scarecrow studies in young adult literature ; 39 · Scarecrow studies in young adult A professor of linguistics, acclaimed young adult author Donna Jo Napoli is novels, including Alligator Bayou, Donna Jo Napoli: Writing with Passion.
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The Tale of Tales. The Irresistible Fairy Tale. The Pina Bausch Sourcebook. The Rape of the Masters. The Dome of Florence Cathedral. The Geographical History of America. Italian Masculinity as Queer Melodrama. A Quick Guide to "Nights at the Circus". History of Western Art. Little Green Apples Publishing. The Book of I. The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales.
The Methodologies of Art. The Other Side of the Tiber. The History of the Kiss! Anne of the Island Anne Shirley Series 3.
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New Edition Revised Edition. Anne of Green Gables. Anne of Windy Poplars. Pictorial Webster's Pocket Dictionary. Becoming the Fiction Storyteller of Your Dreams. Angela's Ashes - Literature Kit Gr. Author Crew, Hilary S. Physical Description ix, p. Series Scarecrow studies in young adult literature ; 39 Scarecrow studies in young adult literature. Subjects Napoli, Donna Jo, -- Criticism and interpretation. Napoli, Donna Jo, Summary A professor of linguistics, acclaimed young adult author Donna Jo Napoli is especially known for her retellings of myths and fairy tales, as well as her historical novels.
In this full-length study featuring an interview with Napoli, Hilary S. Crew integrates criticism and biographical information to illuminate Napoli's many novels.
Including relevant commentary from other sources, Crew also considers other writings by Napoli, such as her essays on writing for young people and her book Language Matters. Stones in Water and its sequel Fire in the Hills. Writing with Passion provides an understanding of how Napoli's life and profession influence her writing. This book will be a significant resource for librarians working with youth, undergraduate and graduate students of young adult literature, teachers of young adult literature, and of course, teens interested in Napoli's novels.
The magic circle and Zel The lure of gold: Spinners and Crazy Jack Transformations: Bound and Beast Love and honor: The great god Pan and Sirena Outsiders: Sep wakes up with white lips in the first chapter because she has vitiligo. Now, they're described as being white, not pale. Which is annoying because lips don't have any pigment. Of course, she's very insecure about it. The vitiligo progresses and her relationships with her family, her friends, and her boyfriend are strained by her insecurity. Now, t This book was very disappointing.
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Now, that's an interesting set up, but it fails because she just complains and cries and is rude and manipulative toward her mother, she breaks up with her boyfriend her boyfriend with whom she was having sex with at the house of the four-year-old she was babysitting--ewwwww!
This is a plot device that I've always found to be utterly stupid. Boyfriend is also utterly perfect: Josh says to Sep, "You came to school without makeup, and I saw what happened, and I understood. That's when I got furious You had no right, Sep. You treated me like a jerk. Like some superficial asshole You decided who I was. And I hated the person you decided who I was.
I was so mad at myslef for getting vitiligo--for not being able to do anything to fix it. It's me I couldn't love. It's a really, really good idea to write a story around, right? But it shouldn't have been spelled out in hasty dialogue at the very end if the book! It should be woven throughout. There's something about a fox that I didn't really pay attention to, because it came soo late in the story, and if it had been important it should have been there from the beginning.
Ugh, so that's Skin. I am kind of confused about how I feel about this book. It was really good in its treatment of the main character, Sep, who develops vitiligo and has to deal with her extreme reaction to the changes it causes in her appearance. Her anger and frustration seem very real: Throughout the book, Napoli weaves information about vitiligo, as well as information about different animals and yoga. That is prett I am kind of confused about how I feel about this book. That is pretty cool. I get that she wants to experience her body before her skin changes and I get that she enjoys sex.
I am fine with that She does not get pregnant, get an STD or even a bad reputation. I just don't think the descriptions are necessary. There are also other disconcerting pieces of story lines. There is a lot about her dog on the beginning, and then he is never mentioned again. She talks about her grandfather dying and how no one sits in his chair. That's brought up more than once. And then it just never is mentioned again. When Sep uses profanities her friends act like it's something they have never heard or used. That does not seem very realistic. But I did like her eventual discussion with her boyfriend, the boy she broke up with because she hated her skin and decided to "save him.
In the end, it comes down to this: They may have learned some compassion or empathy. Because of the sex, it will be something that will be handed to a few select YA readers. That's a shame, because it could have been so much more. Donna Jo Napoli was one of my favorite authors in middle school and high school. She's probably one of the authors who gave me a taste for fairytale retellings. But SKIN is a departure from her normal fare. It's a contemporary, and a sexy one at that.
When it starts, heroine Sep wakes up to find that her lips have turned pure white. She covers it up wi Donna Jo Napoli was one of my favorite authors in middle school and high school. She covers it up with lipstick, but soon other spots start showing up. She doesn't know whether she's dying or not, and then she doesn't know whether she can keep hiding. I really enjoyed SKIN. Sep's fear is understandable, and consuming.
It pushes her to live life fast. At the same time, she starts to become less fearful as she risks new experiences and finds things that make her happy. She makes new friends, gets a boyfriend, and finds an unlikely mentor at a makeup counter in the mall. SKIN is definitely for older teens.
It has messages that are good for young readers, and just as relevant for them, but it is four-alarm fire hot. She wants to do everything she can with Josh before her secret gets out. At the same time, I like that the book is clear that she has the maturity to use protection. At the same time, she's pretty immature about how she treats Josh. I think SKIN is a terrific contemporary read. Sep has a great, relateable voice. There are no real villains, but there's still plenty of conflict. Everything ends slightly messy, but Sep completes a moving emotional journey. Secret For A Song by S. Guiseppina has gotten a skin disorder named vitiligo that has white spots appearing all over body.
I enjoyed this book because of two reasons. Any young girl in such a situation would be angry and try to come up with as many solutions to her problems as she can. Sep is like any other teenager, overwhelmed by events, always unsure. Kudos to Napoli for pulling such a voice off!
Secondly, the picture of the high school and friendships and relationships was so accurate. Sep could have been a girl from my school and would have gone through exactly the same things. I do think the book dragged on at some times. I was hoping for a fast pace, more things happening sooner than they did in the book.
Overall, I think this book would be great for anyone who has ever had any trouble because of being different and worrying about being ostracized because of that difference. Jun 27, M. When it started off, the voice of Sep came off as really young. She's meant to be a junior in high school and it was very odd to me that the author made the students think wearing lipstick was such a major thing. I don't think people really would have noticed or cared that Sep was suddenly wearing lipstick. I also found it odd the author made such a big deal about the color of her skin, calling herself not white.
I suppose she had to do it so when the disease kicked in, the r When it started off, the voice of Sep came off as really young. I suppose she had to do it so when the disease kicked in, the reader would know that the spots really showed up, but I think it could have been handled better. As the story continued, I came to like Sep more and thought the actions and emotions of a teen finding out she has a disease that everyone will see, was realistic.
It did get a bit graphic in parts, which I don't mind but seemed a bit surprising when it started out so tame. The speech her boyfriend gives at the end of the story was especially powerful. All in all, an emotional and realistic read. Jul 20, Abbie rated it really liked it Shelves: Actual rating - 3.
This was wholly different than any Napoli books I've read before. I've read almost all of her retold fairy tales and a couple of historical fiction The teen girl in question, Sep, starts developing vitiligo, which is where patches on your skin lose their pigment. For a teenage girl, this could feel disasterous. Being an adolescent is Reading Challenge: Being an adolescent is bad enough, what with dealing with new found hormones and guys and school People only want characters that think and act in a mature, enlightened, and likable way, unlike real humans.
Overall, I liked this book. It dealt with some difficult topics and I thought the main character went through a lot of growth. The ending wasn't cookie cutter predictable either. I really should, and now I am kicking myself in the shin with my other foot for requesting it. Because now I am left to write a negative review for a book that sounded interesting but disappointed me as a reader—and I knew it would.
Somewhere, in the back of my mind, I knew. Fast-forward to a couple of years later, however, and I found myself disappointed upon revisiting the same book. Bound , I discovered, is a book that tells a simple yet unoriginal story that lacks in profoundness. It was no longer this fanciful Cinderella re-telling I had cooked up in my head, and I wished to never pick up another book by Donna Jo Napoli.
A book from seven years ago, no less? But not as bad as the situation Sep finds herself in. A little shiver hums inside me, elusive and eerie.
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Normally, I would be ashamed of myself for thinking this way, for being such a shallow jerk. Normally, I would have empathy. But it is me. No amount of scrubbing, waiting, and hoping will make the whiteness go away, as Sep soon discovers that vitiligo is taking over. What she does learn, however, is the lengths she will go to hide it. As the saying goes, beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. I relate to Sep in this way, yet worrying about her looks and trying to keep vitilgo hidden is the novel, and this is not the story I had hoped to read.
Skin is difficult for me to review, as I am torn between the story I had imagined versus the story Donna Jo Napoli has written. Not here, not for Sep. I can't just look to others to be kind to me. I can't control that. I have to learn how to be kind to myself. To the animal that is me.
The rational part of me knows that this is the job ahead. It sounds so simple. The world is a giant deception. Hardly anything is simple. But for Sep, it does seem simple. Through most of the novel, Sep focuses on covering up vitiligo with lipstick, cream, clothing, and lies, and within four chapters I am to believe that she reaches an overnight understanding of what it means to love oneself?
Sep stops battling her skin and finds inner-peace in return. No doubt some people in this world, like Sep, quickly discover equanimity—however temporary—or a deeper-than-skin acceptance of who they are. I am not one of those people, and I know that feeling comfortable in my own body is easier said than felt. I wish Sep came to this realization sooner in the story, as quarreling against the public perception of beauty—and still learning to accept oneself—beats a story about trying and failing to blend with the herd.
This review and more can be read at midnight coffee monster. Jun 18, Meganm rated it really liked it Shelves: Skin was an interesting novel. Sep woke up one morning and her lips were white. Her normal skin color was tan, so the white was certainly noticeable.
She tried to figure out what was going on, but more importantly, she tried to figure out how to hide it. Those comments outrage me. And Sep is Of course she compared it to something terminal because when you are 16, your problems ARE the end of the world. Teenagers are at the center of their own worlds.
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They must have forgotten about how shallow our society is. Children have no tact and will likely say something. Having a skin problem is like wearing a giant flashing sign on yourself that screams abnormality and it really does take years to accept what you have and move on. When you are young, you just want to be normal. I have a skin disorder that started when I just a kid. Once I became a teenager, I stopped getting new spots and the ones I had faded into scars. But I still have those scars and they will never go away. It took me literally at least a decade to feel comfortable wearing shorts as the worst spots are on my thighs.
I still feel self conscious in public and I know my spots are not very noticeable. And I still, even as adult, would think that it is the worst thing ever if I had them on my face. I totally understood what Sep was worried about and why she hid behind lipstick and hoped no more noticeable white spots appeared. She was worried about her future, how she would be seen, how bad it would get. The obsessive worrying is so normal for someone with a problem. Think about how often you get weird symptoms and obsessively Google them until you decide you must be dying. So, in many ways, I loved Skin.
Sep worried about how she would cover her lips, if her lipstick was coming off, if anyone would notice. Sep was a flawed character. She jumped into a relationship with Joshua immediately, mostly due to her worry that it would never happen again once her disease progressed. But I think I loved it because Sep was so… We are all obsessed with ourselves at the age, trying to fit in, trying to decide what we are ready for.
And the book did contain a good message because Sep realized her mistakes, accepted herself, and grew from her relationship with Joshua. Sep was a mess, but I loved her story. As a book about adolescence, it was more chaotic and real than wholesome.
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I wish I would have read Skin when I was 15 or 16 and refused to wear shorts. It might have helped. Jun 17, Staci rated it really liked it. I was expecting another retelling of a faerie tale. If that's what you're wanting, don't go for this book. If you're not expecting a faerie tale, this book is great!
The main character's struggles are real. This is a much more adult novel than many of her pieces, and that made me somewhat uncomfortable. I loved this book. It reminded me a bit of Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. It was funny and moving and just beautiful. I wanted to read something out of my comfort zone and Skin, by Donna Jo Napoli, was definitely not my normal go to book.
Considered a realistic YA contemporary, I was intrigued by the books description, and how unlike it was from the normal young adult fiction that I'm use to reading. The books I'm familiar with by Donna Jo Napoli, usually revolve around the exploration of a fairy tale, and this was a true exit from that style. I was curious to see what Skin was really all about. The story of Skin revolves around sixteen-year-old Sep and two coinciding events that will dramatically change her life forever.
One morning Sept wakes up before high school to realize her lips have turned completely white. In turn, she tries to hide them with lipstick, something she has never worn before and causes her unwanted attention. Soon Sep learns she has Vitiligo, a skin disorder that will turn patches of her skin, now olive, white. As Sept becomes desperate to hide her changing skin from Joshua, she makes a decision that will change her forever. In fear of losing Joshua, she decides to become intimate with him. Sep soon realizes she can longer hide her secret from Joshua, and others.
What follows is a personal journey of a young teen who makes a lot of mistakes on the way to learning how to be true to herself. That in order to be loved, you must first love yourself. How in the world am I going to convey the ups and downs this story put me through. The amazing depth of "feels" this book brought for me, and my conflicting emotions about the some of the subject matter in Skin. Why I felt some moments were brilliant and others not so hot. As a character Sep took me on a emotional roller coaster of a ride. There were moments of pure idioticalness and then compelling moments of wonder and brilliance.
The range of conflicting emotions was easy to feel through Sep, and ones I will not easily forget soon. There were moments in the beginning of Skin that I really liked him, especially when Sep and Joshua were first getting to know one another. Later, I was disappointed in his character when he agreed to let the relationship progress so far so fast.
She literally took his choice away from him, assuming he would just let her go. I completely understood his anger and disappointment with Sep. There is definitely a romance between Joshua and Sep. Although rated Young Adult, Skin contains sexual content and mature themes. The turmoil Sep was going through in the story was evident throughout. My heart just about broke when I was reading a scene where the mother and Sep visit the doctors for the first time and discover she has Vitiligo. I felt for her when she made mistakes, and in the end, I admired her bravery.
Unfortunately, I was not happy how the situation was handled regarding Sep's physical relationship with Joshua took form in the book. It was pretty blatant, and too explicit in my opinion for a YA book.