"This groundbreaking collection centers what it’s like growing up as an adoptee. These are stories by adoptees, for adoptees, reclaiming their own narratives."
"Collected here are their stories, stories of overcoming, coming up, perseverance, pride, and power in the face of depressed opportunity andsystemic oppression."
The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption by ShannonGibney Paperback, 257 Pages, Published 2024 by Dutton Childrens Books ISBN-13: 978-0-593-11201-4, ISBN: 0-593-11201-6
"... Lisa Sjoblom [ Lisa Wool - Rim Sjöblom , author of Palimpsest : Documents from a Korean Adoption ] . SYS : Yes . KM : My Omma [ “ mom ” in Korean ] experienced a lot of PTSD once we reunited . SYS : Layers of lies and sadness ..."
"MBD, Dion, illustrator. Title: Where we come from / Diane Wilson, Sun Yung Shin, Shannon Gibney, John Coy ; illustrated by Dion MBD. Description: Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references."
SeeNoColor Format Paperback by ShannonGibney Paperback, 195 Pages, Published 2020 by Holiday House Inc, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-8234-4568-4, ISBN: 0-8234-4568-2
"Author Shannon Gibney draws from her own experiences as a transracial adoptee to deliver this honest coming-of-age novel about a girl who doesn't know where she wants to fit in. Paperback edition includes a reading guide at the back!"
Dream Country(Reprint) by ShannonGibney Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2019 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7352-3168-9, ISBN: 0-7352-3168-0
"The heartbreaking story of five generations of young people from a single African-and-American family pursuing an elusive dream of freedom."Gut wrenching and incredible.”— Sabaa Tahir #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes"This novel is a remarkable achievement."—Kelly Barnhill, New York Times bestselling author and Newbery medalist"Beautifully epic."—Ibi Zoboi, author American Street and National Book Award final ..."
What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color by ShannonGibney, Kao Kalia Yang 256 Pages, Published 2019 by U Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4529-6171-2, ISBN: 1-4529-6171-9
"Guardian. April 30, 2015. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/30/
fda-clinical-trialsgender-gap-epa-nih-institute-of-medicine-cardiovascular-
disease. Accessed on April 1, 2018. Quinn, Molly, and Victor Fujimoto. “Racial
and ..."
"Six Perspectives Renee DeLong, Taiyon Coleman, Kathleen Sheerin DeVore,
Shannon Gibney, Michael Kuhne, Valerie Déus. brace themselves against the
pejoratives that schools typically wash their family language in: broken, slang,
improper, ... And this element of choice is key in reaching underserved students
after so many years of compulsory education ... seen and welcomed as whole
entities rather than reduced to cut scores where the ..."
Dream Country by ShannonGibney 368 Pages, Published 2018 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0-7352-3169-6, ISBN: 0-7352-3169-9
""Gut wrenching and incredible.”— Sabaa Tahir #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes "This novel is a remarkable achievement."—Kelly Barnhill, New York Times bestselling author and Newbery medalist "Beautifully ..."
Dream Country by ShannonGibney Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2018 by Dutton Books For Young Readers ISBN-13: 978-0-7352-3167-2, ISBN: 0-7352-3167-2
"The heartbreaking story of five generations of young people from a single African-and-American family pursuing an elusive dream of freedom."Gut wrenching and incredible.”— Sabaa Tahir #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes"This novel is a remarkable achievement."—Kelly Barnhill, New York Times bestselling author and Newbery medalist"Beautifully epic."—Ibi Zoboi, author American Street and National Book Award final ..."
See No Color by ShannonGibney 192 Pages, Published 2015 by Carolrhoda Lab ® ISBN-13: 978-1-4677-8981-3, ISBN: 1-4677-8981-X
"A huge, larger-than-life thanks to my editor extraordinaire, Andrew Karre, whose
hard work, keen insights, and affinity for this story were invaluable to its
development. Seldom have I worked with a sharper mind. Thanks to Betty Tinsel
and Swati Avasthi, who put me in touch with Andrew Karre, and to Carolrhoda
Lab and Lerner Publishing Group, for all the resources you marshaled to bring
this book into being. Thank you to all my rea ..."
See No Color (Fiction - Young Adult) by ShannonGibney Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by Carolrhoda Lab (Tm) ISBN-13: 978-1-4677-7682-0, ISBN: 1-4677-7682-3
""Transracial adoption is never oversimplified, airbrushed, or sentimentalized, but instead, it's portrayed with bracing honesty as the messy institution it is: rearranging families, blending cultural and biological DNA, loss and joy. An exceptionally accomplished debut." ― Kirkus, starred review For as long as she can remember, sixteen-year-old Alex Kirtridge has known two things about herself: She's a stellar baseball player. She's ad ..."
See No Color by ShannonGibney 192 Pages, Published 2015 by Carolrhoda Lab ™ ISBN-13: 978-1-4677-8814-4, ISBN: 1-4677-8814-7
"... as the story unfolds, alex comes to a better understanding of being an adopted
black teenager in a white world, but the journey is not easy, nor is it over by the
book's end. Drawing on Gibney's own experiences as a transracial adoptee, See
No Color is a powerful and necessary story.” o car, so a Los M L N N E. sarah
Park Dahlen, Professor of Library science and author of Diversity in Youth
Literature: Opening Doors Through Rea ..."
What God Is Honored Here?(1st Edition) Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color by ShannonGibney, Kao Kalia Yang Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2019 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-0793-8, ISBN: 1-5179-0793-4
"Native women and women of color poignantly share their pain, revelations, and hope after experiencing the traumas of miscarriage and infant loss What God Is Honored Here? is the first book of its kind—and urgently necessary. This is a literary collection of voices of Indigenous women and women of color who have undergone miscarriage and infant loss, experiences that disproportionately affect women who have often been cast toward the ma ..."
"This book presents the authors’ attempts to interrogate the ways that white institutional, pedagogical, and curricular heteronormativity affects equity in writing instruction at Two Year Colleges. Written from a wide range of subject and identity positions, this volume explores issues that arise among students inside historically white-dominant classrooms, among faculty as curriculum and hiring decisions are made, and among colleagues w ..."
"This book presents the authors' attempts to interrogate the ways that white institutional, pedagogical, and curricular heteronormativity affects equity in writing instruction at Two Year Colleges."
"A rich Minnesota literary tradition is brought into the spotlight in this groundbreaking collection of incisive prose and powerful poetry by forty-three black writers who educate, inspire, and reveal the unabashed truth.Historically significant figures tell their stories, demonstrating how much and how little conditions have changed: Gordon Parks hitchhikes to Bemidji, Taylor Gordon describes his first day as a chauffeur in St. Paul, an ..."
"In this provocative book, sixteen of Minnesota's best writers provide a range of perspectives on what it is like to live as a person of color in Minnesota. They give readers a splendid gift: the gift of touching another human being's inner reality, behind masks and veils and politeness. They bring us generously into experiences that we must understand if we are to come together in real relationships.Minnesota communities struggle with s ..."