Necessary Noise

Stories About Our Families as They Really Are

by Michael Cart

On Sale: 01/03/2006

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Necessary Noise

Stories About Our Families as They Really Are

by Michael Cart

illustrated by Charlotte Noruzi

On Sale: 01/03/2006

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New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age

About the Book

A girl is terrified of her older sister's dual personality. A boy adjusts to his life with two mothers. A father visits his son on death row. These are stories of today's families as they really are.

Noted anthologist Michael Cart has asked celebrated young adult authors the question "What does 'family' mean today?" The ten resulting stories provide illuminating -- and surprising -- answers. Here family is defined by the connections between all kinds of people -- and the necessary noise they make.

Product Details

ISBN: 9780060514372
ISBN 10: 006051437X
Imprint: HarperTeen
On Sale: 01/03/2006
Pages: 256
List Price:12.50 CAD
BISAC1 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Themes)
BISAC2 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Multigenerational
BISAC3 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Short Stories

Michael Cart

Biography

Michael Cart is a writer, a lecturer, a consultant, and a nationally recognized expert in YA literature. He is the former director of the Beverly Hills (California) Public Library and a past president of the Young Adult Library Services Association, and his column "Carte Blanche" appears monthly in Booklist magazine.

He is the author or editor of twenty books, including the gay coming-of-age novel My Father's Scar, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; From Romance to Realism: 50 Years of Growth and Change in Young Adult Literature; and—with Christine A. Jenkins—The Heart Has Its Reasons, a critical history of young adult literature with gay/lesbian/queer content. His many anthologies include Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth, Necessary Noise: Stories About Our Families as They Really Are, and How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity.

In 2008, he became the first recipient of the YALSA/Greenwood Publishing Group Service to Young Adults Achievement Award, and in 2000, he received the Grolier Foundation Award for his contribution to the stimulation and guidance of reading by young people. Mr. Cart lives in Columbus, Indiana.