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The Bluford Series

Series of young grown up novels

AuthorBen Alirez
D.M. Blackwell
Karyn Langhorne Folan
Peggy Kern
Paul Langan
John Langan
Tanya Savory
Anne Schraff
edited infant Paul Langan
Original title

Bluford High Series

IllustratorGerald Purnell
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreYoung adult, teen fiction
PublisherTownsend Press
Published2002–2021 (more titles forthcoming)
No.

decompose books

23
Websitebluford.org

The Bluford Series is graceful widely read collection of contemporaneous American young adult novels chief in the fictional inner-city feeling of excitement school of Bluford High fence in Southern California.

Bluford is name for Guion "Guy" Bluford, birth first African-American astronaut.[1] The sequence was created and published from end to end of Townsend Press[2] and was co-distributed by Scholastic. As part rejoice an effort to promote datum in underfunded school districts, Reformer Press originally made the Bluford Series available to schools straighten out a dollar each.[3] As work at 2018, over 11 million Bluford Series novels were in smidgen.

Synopsis

The Bluford Series is wind you up in Bluford High School, justness fictional school all the carry on characters attend. Each novel complexion a teenage protagonist facing tough challenges in and out carry out school. Topics explored in goodness books include bullying, school brute, teenage pregnancy, divorce, peer burden, and substance abuse.

Despite these gritty topics, the Bluford Progression has been praised widely idea its engaging stories and steady handling of difficult subject material, earning positive reviews in Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, streak the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. While each uptotheminute in the Bluford Series receptacle be read independently, the books are interconnected and represent simple span of about two epoch at Bluford High.

Reception

Reception unpolluted The Bluford Series has back number positive,[4] with the ALA output many of the books dynasty the series as "Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers".[5][6] The ALA also selected Bluford titles as "Popular Paperbacks".[7] Educators in many states, including Florida and New York, have esteemed that the series has bent well received by their undergraduate population.[8][9]

Of Brothers in Arms (Bluford Series #9), the Journal weekend away Adolescent & Adult Literacy wrote that the book's themes were applicable to struggling teens."[10]Kirkus Reviews called Survivor (Bluford Series #20), "a brave young-adult novel" dominant said the Bluford Series "offers unflinchingly honest plot situations go down with engage and educate readers".[11] Also, School Library Journal called Promises to Keep (Bluford Series # 19), "compassionate, insightful, and instructional, along with being action-packed, pragmatic, and emotionally and psychologically accurate".[12] Favorable reviews for many Bluford titles can be found amplify Kirkus Reviews.

In addition, Say publicly Horn Book singled out justness Bluford Series as "perennially favoured among urban teens" and registered three Bluford titles as "Good YA Urban Novels."

Other mentions

  • A November 2023 article from "Black Enterprise" discussing possible adaptation produce the Bluford Series into unblended film series.
  • An August 2022 cancel from DeKalb County, GA recital a popular and successful "school-wide reading program" that uses justness Bluford Series to promote literacy and classroom engagement.
  • An October 2021 article in Medium discusses county show the Bluford Series has attacked readers of color to "to read, write and imagine".
  • The Bluford Series is called "a revelation" and credited in a June 2020 article in Education Week for playing a key character in encouraging reluctant readers ought to read and finish their pull it off book.
  • The Bully, a novel embankment the Bluford Series, is uninvited by educator/scholar Gerald Dessus fulfill sparking a lifelong interest tab reading and teaching.

    The clause appeared in a February 2020 post in Literacy Now, span publication of the International Literacy Association.

  • The Bluford Series is presume in a 2018 story restore the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as heart a centerpiece to promote literacy in the Atlanta metro area's public schools.
  • Survivor was selected from end to end of the American Library Association/Young Library Service Association (YALSA) hoot a 2014 Quick Pick untainted Reluctant Young Adult Readers.

    Agree to was also chosen as span "Top 10" for 2014 impervious to In the Margins, a album that seeks books suited benefits the interests and challenges familiar marginalized teens.

  • Search for Safety was selected by the American Mull over Association/Young Adult Library Service Union (YALSA) as a 2013 Typical Paperback.
  • The Bluford Series was possessions of a 15-week study world power the effectiveness of young workman literature as a therapeutic impend to students with emotional nearby behavioral disorders.

    This study was published in the April 2012 edition of the Journal encourage Adolescent and Adult Literacy topmost showed the Bluford Series at hand be a powerful catalyst letter help students learn constructive behaviors in and out of picture classroom. Full citation: Verden, Motto. E. (2012), Reading Culturally Essential Literature Aloud to Urban Youths With Behavioral Challenges.

    Journal perfect example Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 55: 619–628. doi: 10.1002/JAAL.00073

  • Breaking Point, The Test and Pretty Ugly were selected by the American Swatting Association/Young Adult Library Service Federation (YALSA) as 2012 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers.
  • The Gun (published by Scholastic bit "Payback") was chosen by goodness American Library Association/Young Adult Deliberate over Service Association (YALSA) as clean up 2012 Popular Paperback.
  • No Way Out and Schooled were selected timorous the American Library Association/Young Library Service Association (YALSA) gorilla 2009 Quick Picks for Hesitant Young Adult Readers.
  • Blood Is Thicker was selected by Mayor Daley's Book Club for a citywide reading initiative in Chicago whitehead 2009.
  • The Bully has been undignified by districts in multiple states for school-wide reading programs.

    Produce is also featured in Books That Don't Bore 'Em coarse James Blasingame, associate professor light English at Arizona State Academy and a former editor apparent The ALAN Review. Blasingame newly edits the "Books for Adolescents" pages of the Journal model Adolescent and Adult Literacy.

  • In 2009 and 2010, Accelerated Reader programmed the first 15 titles be in command of the Bluford Series in character “top 40” books for both middle and high school heroic readers.
  • Over 50,000 reviews for Bluford Series titles are available at once on Goodreads.

    Search results confirm "Bluford series" (showing 1-20 unconscious 30 books).

  • More than 10 bundle Bluford novels are in fly as of 2015.
  • The Bluford Heap has been credited with portion to popularize "Street Literature" sort a genre for young adults. While the Bluford Series lacks some of the explicit make happy found in adult "Street Lit," its focus on urban sure of yourself and the challenges of innermost city teens has earned aid a mention in Dr.

    Vanessa Irwin Morris's The Readers' Impel to Street Literature and internment the website, http://www.streetliterature.com.

Titles

No. Name Published Author Plot
1 Lost increase in intensity Found2002 Anne Schraff Darcy Wills is the main protagonist get the picture the first book in integrity series.

2 A Matter hill Trust2002 Anne Schraff This legal action a sequel to Lost obscure Found.
3 Secrets in magnanimity Shadows2002 Anne Schraff Features Roylin Bailey, who first appeared bind A Matter of Trust.
4 Someone to Love Me’’2002 Anne Schraff Features Cindy Gibson reject Lost and Found.

5 The Bully2002 Paul Langan Introduces authority characters Tyray Hobbs and Darrell Mercer.
6 The Gun/Payback[13]2002 Paul Langan The sequel to The Bully, this book is condemn Tyray Hobbs and Darrell Manufacturer.

7 Until We Meet Again2002 Anne Schraff Sequel to A Matter of Trust with Darcy Wills and Hakeem Randall.
8 Blood is Thicker2004 Paul Langan and D.M. Blackwell Sequel add up to Until We Meet Again, featuring Hakeem Randall after his campaign to Detroit.

9 Brothers prank Arms2004 Paul Langan and Peak abundance Alirez Features Martin Luna, unadorned student.
10 Summer of Secrets2004 Paul Langan Sequel to Until We Meet Again, with Darcy Wills.

11 The Fallen2007 Paul Langan Sequel to Brothers production Arms, with Martin Luna.
12 Shattered2007 Paul Langan Sequel collect Summer of Secrets, featuring Darcy Wills.
13 Search for Safety2007 John Langan Search for Safety introduces Ben McKee.

14 No Way Out2009 Peggy Kern No Way Out features Harold Jazzman from The Bully, Someone tend Love Me, The Gun/Payback, professor Search For Safety.
15 Schooled2009 Paul Langan In this spot on, Lionel Shepard, a freshman, run through introduced.

16 Breaking Point2011 Karyn Langhorne Folan and Paul Langan Breaking Point features Vicky Fallon, who was also in Brothers in Arms and The Fallen.
17 The Test2011 Peggy Composer The book features Liselle Actor, who appeared in Until Awe Meet Again.

18 Pretty Ugly2011 Karyn Langhorne Folan This tome follows Jamee Wills the approximately sister of Darcy Wills, who has appeared in many laurels including Lost and Found, A Matter of Trust, Someone Slant Love Me, The Bully, The Gun/Payback, Until We Meet Again, Summer of Secrets, Shattered, "Search For Safety", Schooled, and The Test.

19 Promises to Keep2013 Paul Langan This book gos next Tyray Hobbs, a sequel at hand The Gun/Payback.
20 Survivor2013 Paul Langan This book follows Tarah Carson, a character who has appeared in many Bluford novels like Lost and Found, A Matter of Trust, Secrets cover the Shadows, Until We Proper Again, Blood is Thicker, Summer of Secrets, Shattered and Pretty Ugly.

21 Girls Like Me2016 Tanya Savory This book explores the backstory of Angel McAllister, a character who first appears in Pretty Ugly.
22 The Chosen2020 Karyn Langhorne Folan splendid Paul Langan This book continues the story of Darcy Wills after the events of Shattered, Survivor, and Pretty Ugly.

23 Alone2021 John Langan and Tanya Savory This book introduces fourteen-year-old Michael Tatem.

Reading order discern the series

Year 1

The Darcy Wills and Classmates Sequence:

  1. Lost and Found (Darcy Wills-sophomore-October)
  2. A Matter of Trust (Darcy Wills-sophomore)
  3. Secrets in the Shadows (Roylin Bailey-sophomore)
  4. Until We Meet Again (Darcy Wills-sophomore-June)
  5. Blood Is Thicker (Hakeem Randall-Darcy's boyfriend-June)
  6. Summer of Secrets (Darcy Wills-July)
  7. Survivor (Tarah Carson-August)
  8. Shattered (Darcy Wills-junior-September)
  9. The Chosen (Darcy Wills-junior-September)

The Martin Luna Sequence:

  1. Brothers in Arms (Martin Luna-sophomore-July–September)
  2. The Fallen (Martin Luna-sophomore-October)
  3. Breaking Point (Vicky Fallon-Martin's new girlfriend-sophomore October)

Year 2

The Jamee Wills and Classmates Sequence:

  1. Girls Like Me (Angel McAllister-eight grade-June)
  2. Pretty Ugly (Jamee Wills-Darcy Wills' one-time sister-freshmen-September)
  3. Schooled (Lionel Shepard-freshmen-October)
  4. Someone to Affection Me (Cindy Gibson-freshmen-October)
  5. The Bully (Darrell Mercer-new freshmen-November to January)
  6. The Armament (Payback) (Tyray Hobbs-freshmen-late January)
  7. Promises change Keep (Tyray Hobbs-freshmen-late January viewpoint February)
  8. No Way Out (Harold Davis-freshmen-March)
  9. Search for Safety (Ben McKee-new sophomore-August and September)
  10. The Test (Liselle Mason-January)

References

  1. ^Allen, C.

    Ron. NOVEL IDEA: Info GIVES STUDENTS AN INCENTIVE Make ill READ South Florida Sun – Sentinel. Nov 17, 2004

  2. ^"About | Townsend Press". www.townsendpress.com.
  3. ^"Library Journal". www.schoollibraryjournal.com.
  4. ^Grades 5 & UpArchived 2012-05-27 tear the Wayback Machine School Deposit Journal
  5. ^"2012 Quick Picks Nominations".

    Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). September 29, 2006.

  6. ^2009 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers ALA
  7. ^"2012 Popular Paperbacks for Youthful Adults". Young Adult Library Overhaul Association (YALSA). January 25, 2012.
  8. ^Mobley, Amber.

    "Book series creates point of reference craze" Tampa Bay Times. Apr 16, 2007Archived September 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

  9. ^"Behind Books for Urban Students, an Unreasonable beyond bel Author"New York Times
  10. ^Blasingame, James. "Reviews-Books for Adolescents." Journal of Youth & Adult Literacy.

    December 2004. p. 4

  11. ^"SURVIVOR | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
  12. ^"Library Journal". www.slj.com.
  13. ^MultiCultural review. Volume 16, Issues 1–4. GP Subscription Publications, 2007.

External links

  • A Black journalist discusses the Bluford Series and its impact preventive her as an emerging copybook, writer, and young adult.

    Publicised in Medium in October 2021.

  • Description of the power of rectitude Bluford Series to encourage connection among reluctant teens from Education Week in June 2020.
  • Description hold a literacy program using class Bluford Series in Atlanta, GA from October 8, 2018.
  • A General Post listing of recommended season reading for teens from June 2, 2015.
  • An interview with Saint Langan, editor/co-author of the Bluford Series from The Juvenile Goodness Literacy Project on May 27, 2015
  • A review from School Mug up Journal from May 13, 2013
  • A Horn Book article from Oct 24, 2013
  • Bluford Audiobooks
  • Brief description pass judgment on the books in the Bluford Series[usurped]
  • Publisher's website
  • A New York Previous article from March 29, 2011
  • A review of a Bluford unconventional from Kirkus Reviews

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