Under Colorado Law, willful distribution of such material is deemed a Class 6 penalty carrying a fine and/or up to 18 months in prison. Books that violate ALL established standards will have a table printed in red. The above scale indicates whether, in our view, the referenced book violates established and upheld Federal ( Miller Test) and State ( Colorado Obscenity Test) standards. Violations (Miller Test & Colorado Obscenity Test ) Y Ethan details his own sexual relationship he had with a college student who lived in his home when he was only 15 years old himself. Notes: The book is about a 14 year old boy, Alec, and his encounter with an older, sexually experienced 17 year old Ethan. But then he meets Ethan, who opens his world in a series of truly unexpected ways. Description: When Alek’s high-achieving, Armenian-American parents send him to summer school, he thinks his summer is ruined.
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Later series dive more deeply into supernatural elements of the Warriors world, further inter-clan conflict, the vast family tree that makes up the characters of Warriors, and more. This is especially the case in the second series, Warriors: The New Prophecy, when the Clans homes are threatened by construction. While the politics of this provide some basis for conflict, other forces also threaten the clans-humans, naturally, are one. What Is Warriors About?Īs Rusty’s time with ThunderClan grows, so does his importance in the group. The resulting environment makes for a rich context in which the characters experience the world in a depth-y and imaginative perspective that is irresistible to readers. This clan is one of six that interact with one another with developed politics, conflict, and alliances. The original series (called The Prophecies Begin in later editions), which spans six novels and begins with Into the Wild, follows a house cat named Rusty who leaves his home to explore the nearby forest and has the opportunity to join a group of wild cats known as ThunderClan. If you were in elementary school anytime after 2003, chances are you are at least familiar with Erin Hunter’s Warriors series and sub-series. The Met is home to the rich, the eccentric and the disenfranchised. On the lookout for mechanical failures and sabotage attempts, Vlade keeps the building running, but he can’t explain the two-hour gap in the security tape at the time of the programmers’ disappearance. They take their concerns to Vlade, the skyscraper’s super. Their mysterious absence comes to the attention of police inspector Gen Octaviasdottir, via immigration lawyer Charlotte Armstrong, a fellow Met resident. Two homeless coders, dubbed Mutt and Jeff, vanish from their squat on the building’s rooftop farm. Told from multiple points of view and reminiscent of one of Emile Zola’s “apartment” novels in the way it portrays characters from various social strata in one setting, “New York 2140” focuses on the inhabitants of a single, partially sunken apartment building, the old Met Life tower on Madison Square. But at this point the four hundred richest people on the planet owned half the planet’s wealth, and the top one percent owned fully eighty percent of the world’s wealth. “This remarkable rise had been bad for people - most of them. The consequences of two disasters known as the First and Second Pulse sound familiar to anyone who has paid attention to the inequitable impacts of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. “New York 2140” posits a 50-foot rise in sea levels, which turns the streets of Lower Manhattan into a landscape of canals between the surviving skyscrapers. It was not a choice – my chocolate-coloured skin saw to that – but it became a revelation. In Nigeria, I had often thought about who I was – writer, dreamer, thinker – but only in America did I consider what I was. This plurality, this mix of those voluntarily and involuntarily American, living on land that did not belong to them, gave birth to a churning that magnified rather than diminished identity. I was struck by the excess and the newness, by the flagrant contradictions, but mostly by how identity as an idea shaped so much of American life.Īmerica is indeed unlike any other country in the world, not in the kind of triumphalist manner of those who speak of “exceptionalism”, but because while it was created from violence like many other modern nations, it also claimed plurality, an unusual notion for founding a nation. From my first days, I watched and read and learnt. Yes, it is hackneyed but America truly was, for me, about chasing and catching my dreams. Nineteen years old and fleeing the study of medicine at my Nigerian university, I longed to be a writer, to live a life of the mind. America fascinated me as America fascinates every newcomer. |