Heroes of the Blue Sky Rebellion - Abridged for AudioBook / eBook syncing
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This version is Abridged by removal of endnotes to allow for creation of an audiobook. (Endnotes are not supported in the audiobook.) The ebook and the audiobook, when both are bought in the same Amazon/Kindle account, can be synced to remember where you left off in either version, and will allow reading and listening to the same material at the same time, which can be helpful and instructive for struggling readers.
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Hey, young man. You can stop pretending everything is fine, everything is fair for you and your young male friends.
Heroes of the Blue Sky Rebellion is for boys and young men 13 to 23 to assure you that you are not imagining things and do not have a “personal problem” when you perceive sexism, gender bias, double standards and stereotypes operating against your efforts to reach maximum health, achievement and happiness.
Since adults haven’t really done much to help you — especially compared to what they’ve done for girls and young women to make sure they get what they want out of life — this book encourages you to become your own advocate and activist to address the injustices you face as a male, and to enlist reluctant adults and very cool young women and girls as Allies in a campaign to make sure you, too, can claim all the happiness in the world.
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Praise for this book
“An excellent and timely book for young males facing a world increasingly stacked against them and blind to their learning styles and emotional needs. Especially valuable are the practical suggestions as to what any boy or young man can do to challenge and reverse unfairness.”
“This book should be required reading for every educator in America, male and female, from the earliest levels.”
“While it is easy reading, the book… is definitely an important contribution to the literature addressing the needs of a group whose concerns are often overlooked by the greater society. It will help boys and young men grow up to be the men our society very much needs.”
“Heroes of the Blue Sky Rebellion offers practical and easy to understand steps for boys who must wrestle with issues created by sexism on the playground, at school, at work, and in their relationships with girls and adult women and men.”