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5 Books to Give Your Middle School Girl Hearst Owned ... In this coming-of-age story, Carrie helps girls—of all races and backgrounds—understand the light that community, love, and friendship ...
The 1st edition PDF is in the public domain. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation is a 1928 book by American anthropologist Margaret Mead based upon her research and study of youth – primarily adolescent girls – on the island of Taʻū in American Samoa.
The girl is supposed to stay 7 Days in the Rondovel with her friends and practice songs for the ceremony. On the 7th day, the girls wake up early in the morning and go to the nearest river to bathe. When they come back, the girl is presented with a spear and she wears the fat from a cow's stomach (Umhlwehlwe) and they sing the traditional songs ...
The Birchbark House has received positive reviews and was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for young people's fiction. [1] After the prologue, the novel continues through the eyes of a seven-year-old young girl, Omakayas (her name means "little frog" because her first step was a hop).
Bless Me, Ultima is a coming-of-age novel by Rudolfo Anaya centering on Antonio Márez y Luna and his mentorship under his curandera and protector, Ultima. It has become the most widely read and critically acclaimed novel in the New Mexican literature canon since its first publication in 1972.
A mother and daughter both come of age in “Girls Will Be Girls,” Shuchi Talati’s gentle English-Hindi high school drama set in the Himalayan foothills. In this engrossing feature debut about ...
The Hupa women's coming-of-age ceremony can last for three, five, or ten days. The ceremony, called The Flower Dance, is a public celebration within the tribe that is held when a girl starts menstruating. [7] There are specific practices and rituals in place that are important to the Hupa people because of the strong historical tradition.
First edition. Yoruba Girl Dancing is the debut novel of Nigerian author Simi Bedford, which "tackles the weighty and painful issue of the extent to which Africans, even those who are members of the privileged classes, can gain social acceptance in 'the West.'" [1] Yoruba Girl Dancing was first published in Great Britain in 1991 (by William Heinemann Ltd) and then in the United States in 1992 ...