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The Burning
The Burning
The Burning
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The Burning

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An Amazon Best Book of the Month!

"A smart, explosive examination of gender discrimination and its ramifications." — Publishers Weekly

From Laura Bates, internationally renowned feminist and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, comes a realistic novel for the #metoo era. The Burning will prompt all readers to consider the implications of sexism and the role we can each play in ending it

What happens when you can't run or hide from a mistake that goes viral?

New school. Check.

New town. Check.

New last name. Check.

Social media profiles? Deleted.

Anna and her mother have moved hundreds of miles to put the past behind them. Anna hopes to make a fresh start and escape the harassment she's been subjected to. But then rumors and whispers start, and Anna tries to ignore what is happening by immersing herself in learning about Maggie, a local woman accused of witchcraft in the seventeenth century. A woman who was shamed. Silenced. And whose story has unsettling parallels to Anna's own.

The Burning is a powerful call to action, perfect for readers looking for:

  • feminist novels for teens
  • young adult realistic fiction books
  • contemporary novels with historical fiction elements
  • books that deal with current events and issues

Praise for The Burning:

"A haunting rallying cry against sexism and bullying." —Kirkus Reviews

"Emotionally charged...powerful." —Booklist

"A painfully realistic, spellbinding novel." —Shelf Awareness

"Bates's twist on a cautionary tale will take readers on an emotional roller coaster". —School Library Journal

LanguageEnglish
PublisherSourcebooks
Release dateApr 7, 2020
ISBN9781728206745
The Burning
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Laura Bates

Laura Bates is a Sunday Times bestselling author and the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, a collection of over 200,000 testimonies of gender inequality. Her non-fiction books include Everyday Sexism, Girl Up, Misogynation, Men Who Hate Women and Fix the System, Not the Women. She writes regularly for The Guardian and the Telegraph, among other publications, and won a British Press Award in 2015. Laura works closely with organisations from the Council of Europe to the United Nations to tackle gender inequality. She was awarded a British Empire Medal for services to gender equality and has been named a woman of the year by Cosmopolitan, Red and The Sunday Times. 

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    This book does exactly what the author intends. It takes a mistake by a fourteen year old girl, made when she gives in to her boyfriend's demands and sends him a photo of her breasts, and lets it become a raging online fire, one that can't be outrun. That's what Anna and her mom try to do when they move from England to Scotland. At first Anna thinks things will be okay, especially when she starts to make two new friends, but it's not long before someone at her new school learns about the picture...and worse. Laura Bates blends Anna's situation with the painful life of Maggie, a fisherman's daughter who lived 400 years before, who after being sexually assaulted and impregnated by a nobleman's son, was tried for witchcraft. The mixing of the two girls' experiences is superbly done. This is a book that deserves not only to be in most libraries, but should be read and discussed in classes as well because it has a powerful message.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A powerful book highly recommended for girls of 12-13 and up.The novel blends two threads of the present day story of Anna and her problems with cyber-bullying along with the 1650s narrative about a woman accused of witchcraft after she gets pregnant. This historical narrative highlights how in some ways, nothing has changed - women have been subjugated by men for centuries and men are still getting away with it whilst the victim is blamed.I also particularly appreciated a very positive portrayal of a wheelchair user whose comments about being seen as a person not as a wheelchair absolutely rang true.

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