James Blasingame

Kenneth L. Donelson

Alleen Pace Nilsen

Don L. F. Nilsen

Long respected as the number one book in the field, Literature for Today's Young Adults gives teachers, librarians, parents, counselors, and other group leaders—as well as instructors and students in college courses in Adolescent/Young Adult Literature—a comprehensive look at YA literature framed within a literary, historical, and social context as a means to motivating teens to become life-long readers. Included is helpful information on evaluating YA books of all genres, using YA literature effectively with English Language Learners, incorporating digital and other new literacies into classroom teaching, and dealing with today's increasingly diverse and challenging censorship issues.

Literature for Today's Young Adults

Popular Culture and the Teaching of English

With 140 fewer pages than the fourth edition, the fifth obviously has been tightened; it's partly in the format, with narrower margins and less white space. Otherwise, some text has been rephrased or rearranged and topics (for example, adolescent psychology) given shorter shrift. Coverage of Holocaust literature has been expanded, and discussion of problem novels improved. Sports books have been dumped in with humor, movies, and other stuff, including humorous poetry, which, it seems, the authors feel is the only kind teens read for pleasure; other types of poetry as well as short stories and drama are relegated to the English classroom, coverage of which has been enlarged. The chapter on sf and fantasy is good on historical aspects but weak on today's writers. A short list of Internet listserves and Web sites has been incorporated as part of using YA literature in the library. Once again, updating of appendixes seems spotty. Nevertheless, this is useful as a resource for youth librarians and a tool for teaching YA literature. Sally Estes.

Inleiding over de verschillende genres in de Amerikaanse tienerlectuur, waarbij historische en literaire aspecten belicht worden. Enige aandacht wordt besteed aan bibliotheekwerk met tieners, boekpromotie en boekbeoordeling.

National Council of Teachers of English

A Booklist for Senior High Students

Books for You

Introduction to young adult literature to help motivate teenagers become life-long readers. Reader friendly and comphrehensive.

Sam Leaton Sebesta

Literature for Children and Young Adults

Inspiring Literacy

Discusses young adults and what they read, the history of adolescent literature, literary genre, using and evaluating literature for the library and classroom, and censorship. Numerous bibliographies are included.

Provides an annotated list of recommended books for young adults

Kenneth L. Donelson

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