His novel Anger is a Gift premiered in May 2018 from Tor Teen. His chapter-by-chapter takes on Harry Potter, Discworld, and other works have won readers’ hearts. Then metal detectors and the police show up at his school, and Moss realizes that they have to organize against it, or more people will die.Īuthor Mark Oshiro started his career by reviewing fantasy and science fiction, creating the Mark Reads and Mark Watches blogs and receiving a Hugo nomination for best Fan Writer. High school student Moss lost his father several years ago to police brutality, and he hates how people define him by the incident. –Kristin Lee Anderson, Jackson County Library Services, OR This review was published in the School Library Journal April 2018 issue.Anger Is A Gift is a novel about grief, activism, and living despite trauma. Give this to fans of Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give. VERDICT A strong addition to the current wave of excellent social justice–themed contemporary realistic titles. This timely title will provoke much-needed discussion. In the same vein, the diversity of this title also makes it shine: sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, race, and ethnicity are all portrayed in Oshiro’s inner-city Oakland setting. There are no good models of white ally-ship, and the title is stronger for this fact. Part sweet love story, part social justice commentary, this title begs to be read and discussed.
The heartbreaking last lines are a call to action there is no resolved, happy ending. Tragedy strikes during a planned school walk out, and Moss must stand up and fight for what is right. Moss’s group of friends is affected and they begin organizing. Both new policies cause immediate issues for innocent students. As Moss starts his junior year, metal detectors and random locker searches arrive at West Oakland High. He struggles with self-consciousness and body image, and his dating life as a large, gay, African American male teen has been nonexistent-until he meets Javier, an undocumented immigrant from a different school, and begins to fall in love. He’s witnessed his father’s death at the hands of the police and has anxiety, but his friends and mother help him through panic attacks. Gr 8 Up –High schooler Moss is a survivor.
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