Books for You: An Annotated Booklist for Senior High : Covering Books Published from 1994-96Lois T. Stover, Stephanie F. Zenker Designed to help teachers, students, and parents identify engaging and insightful books for young adults, this book presents annotations of over 1,400 books published between 1994 and 1996. The book begins with a foreword by young adult author, Chris Crutcher, a former reluctant high school reader, that discusses what books have meant to him. Annotations in the book are grouped by subject into 40 thematic chapters, including "Adventure and Survival"; "Animals and Pets"; "Classics"; "Death and Dying"; "Fantasy"; "Horror"; "Human Rights"; "Poetry and Drama"; "Romance"; "Science Fiction"; "War"; and "Westerns and the Old West." Annotations in the book provide full bibliographic information, a concise summary, notations identifying world literature, multicultural, and easy reading title, and notations about any awards the book has won. Appendixes present lists of award-winning works of poetry, fiction drama, and nonfiction for the years 1994 through 1997; a list of approximately 500 multicultural titles; a 94-item list of world literature titles and directions on how to order. Author, subject, and title indexes are attached.(RS). |
Contents
Adventure and Survival | 1 |
Airplanes Cars Motorcycles and Racing | 10 |
Animals and Pets | 16 |
Art Architecture Music Dance Photography | 23 |
Autobiography Biography and Collective Biography | 40 |
Choices and Transitions | 73 |
Classics | 87 |
College Education and Careers | 95 |
Poetry and Drama | 257 |
Political Science and the Law | 267 |
Recreation Travel and Leisure Time Activities | 274 |
Reference | 281 |
Religion Cults and Inspiration | 294 |
Romance | 301 |
School | 309 |
Science and the Environment | 315 |
Computers and Related Technology | 99 |
Dating and Sexual Awareness | 102 |
Death and Dying | 106 |
Diaries Essays Journals Letters and Oral Histories | 113 |
Drugs Alcohol and Other Health Issues | 122 |
Family Relationships | 129 |
Fantasy | 152 |
Friendships | 170 |
Historical Fiction | 177 |
History Geography Archeology and Anthropology | 191 |
Holocaust | 206 |
Horror | 212 |
Human Rights | 226 |
Humor and Satire | 232 |
Language and Languages | 236 |
Mysteries Spies and Crime | 239 |
Myths Legends and Folklore | 249 |
Science Fiction | 324 |
SelfHelp | 337 |
Short Stories | 342 |
Sports and Sports Figures | 354 |
Television Movies and Entertainment | 366 |
War | 369 |
Westerns and the Old West | 375 |
AwardWinning Books | 379 |
Multicultural Titles | 389 |
World Literature Titles | 401 |
How to Order Books | 404 |
Author Index | 405 |
Subject Index | 417 |
Title Index | 428 |
Editors | 449 |
Committee on the Senior High School Booklist | 450 |
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