Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Spellbound by Janet McDonald (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Spellbound by Janet McDonald starting at $ Spellbound has 6 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace. · Janet McDonald ( – Ap) was an American writer of novels for young adults as well as a memoir, Project Girl, about her own upbringing and education. Her best-known children’s book is Spellbound, which tells the story of a teenaged mother who wins a spelling competition and a college scholarship.
Spellbound by Janet McDonald Farrar, Straus, Giroux, , pp., $ Teenage MarriagelDropouts ISBN: In this short, moving, fast-paced and often humorous story, year-old Raven Jefferson, an unwed teenage mother and high school dropout "existing" in the housing projects. of. Spellbound by Janet McDonald starting at $ Spellbound has 6 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace. JANET MCDONALD () is the author of three books set in the Brooklyn projects: Chill Wind, for which she received the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent; Spellbound, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; and Twists and Turns, an ALA Quick Pick for Young www.doorway.ru was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and lived in Paris, France.
Spellbound by Janet McDonald was a new type of novel for me. I have never read a novel that focused on the troubles of having a child while being a teenager and needing to drop out of school to support that child. I have always imagined that would be very difficult for anyone but this really put it into perspective. In her first book for young adults, McDonald (Project Girl, for adults) uses a chorus of highly authentic, lively young voices to convey heartbreaks and dreams reverberating in a Brooklyn ghetto. spellbound by Janet McDonald ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 5, Raven Jefferson is 16 and lives with her mother in a housing project in Brooklyn.
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