When Everything Feels Like the Movies

Author: Raziel Reid
Publication date: 2014
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About the Work

Young adult novel.

Challenges in Canada

The winner of the 2014 Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature, was decried as a “values-void novel” by a National Post columnist. Soon after, a group of concerned parents, YA authors, teachers and others started an online petition to revoke the award, citing the book’s “offensive” and “inappropriate” content.

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