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Gender Bias in Literature ?Men Fix Things?Girls Have Dolls? -Shirley B. Ernst I have thought about many different ways to organize this paper and have come to the conclusion that the best way to approach the topic is on a book-by-book basis. My perceptions of the gender biases in these books vary greatly and I did not want to begin altering my views on each so that they would fit into certain contrived connections. …

…have a responsibility to dialogue these notions with our students so that they will have the insight to write about it in the future. Bibliography · Bloor, Edward. Tangerine. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1997. · Coman, Carolyn. What Jamie Saw. New York: Puffin Books, 1995. · Creech, Sharon. Walk Two Moons. New York: Harper Trophy, 1994. · Ernst, Shirley B. ?Gender Issues in Books for Children and Young Adults.? Battling Dragons. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1995. · Sachar, Louis. Holes. New York: Frances Foster Books, 1998.