E.R. Frank
reading for school classes
International Children’s and Youth Literature
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Brooklyn, New York: Life in the big city is not simple, or at least not for Mara, Grace, Ebony, Nick or Tory, who must figure out how to cope with things themselves. Be it from discrimination against the colour of their skin or growing up without parents, or a mother addicted to drugs who can not control her own life, the eleven girls and boys who talk about their everyday life in E.R. Frank’s (USA) young adult novel “Life is Strange” have one thing is common: They are all strong and find their way in life.
In English. 11th/12th grade
E.R. Frank was born in 1968 and was a social worker in Brooklyn for many years, New York. She is now a writer and psychotherapist and lives in New Jersey. She works with children and young adults in her own practice, in hospitals, clinics and prisons. Her first novel, “Life is Funny” (2000), was a brilliant overnight success. Frank’s novels portray the feelings of abandoned teenagers, they speak of sexuality, drugs and violence, but also of love, freedom and the feeling of ‘being saved’. Most recently her work ‘America’ was translated into German (‘Ich bin Amerika’, 2005).
Registration required at (030) 27 87 86 66
Brooklyn, New York: Life in the big city is not simple, or at least not for Mara, Grace, Ebony, Nick or Tory, who must figure out how to cope with things themselves. Be it from discrimination against the colour of their skin or growing up without parents, or a mother addicted to drugs who can not control her own life, the eleven girls and boys who talk about their everyday life in E.R. Frank’s (USA) young adult novel “Life is Strange” have one thing is common: They are all strong and find their way in life.
In English. 11th/12th grade
E.R. Frank was born in 1968 and was a social worker in Brooklyn for many years, New York. She is now a writer and psychotherapist and lives in New Jersey. She works with children and young adults in her own practice, in hospitals, clinics and prisons. Her first novel, “Life is Funny” (2000), was a brilliant overnight success. Frank’s novels portray the feelings of abandoned teenagers, they speak of sexuality, drugs and violence, but also of love, freedom and the feeling of ‘being saved’. Most recently her work ‘America’ was translated into German (‘Ich bin Amerika’, 2005).