Essentials of Young Adult Literature"Essentials of Young Adult Literature" Based on a genre approach to literature, this long-awaited book offers a comprehensive, clear, and succinct overview of adolescent literature. It includes recommended books listed by genre and topic, and engages readers by offering a thorough discussion of the major trends and issues affecting young adult literature such as censorship, the literary canon, and accountability. It provides clearly stated positions on the current issues affecting schools and literature. Written by well-known authors Carl Tomlinson and Carol Lynch-Brown, "Essentials of Young Adult Literature" places emphasis on reading a wide variety of young adult literature and addresses all types and formats of literature including novels, short stories, graphic novels, and picture books for older readers. In addition, notable authors are featured in each genre chapter and multicultural and international literature is integrated throughout the book and then treated more fully in its own chapter. Current and future teachers will appreciate the authors' practical strategies for connecting secondary school students with young adult books, such as how to select books that students will read and enjoy, how to motivate resistant readers to read, and how to develop text sets for classroom study across the curriculum. Readers will be equipped with the knowledge to use trade books as excellent teaching and learning materials and will not be limited to using textbooks alone. Key Features
|
Contents
Understanding Young Adults | 7 |
Resistant Readers | 10 |
Learning about Books | 21 |
Copyright | |
17 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Essentials of Young Adult Literature Kathy Gnagey Short,Carl M. Tomlinson,Carol Lynch-Brown,Holly Johnson No preview available - 2014 |
Common terms and phrases
adolescents adventure African-American Atheneum Award biography Canada Candlewick Chapter Clarion classroom collection Coping culture David Delacorte Dial Dutton editor England example experience Farrar folktales Free verse Front Street genre girl graphic novels Greenwillow Harcourt Harper HarperCollins high school historical fiction Holocaust Holt HONOR BOOKS Houghton Humor Hyperion Illustrated immigration interest Jewish Journey Knopf Latino Laurence Yep librarians literary lives Magical realism microculture middle school minutes Modern fantasy Myers mystery National Native American Newbery Newbery Medal nonfiction Orchard Patricia picture books plays plot poems poetry poets protagonist published Putnam read aloud reading materials realistic fiction resistant readers Scholastic science fiction selection short stories Simon & Schuster teachers teen teenage theatre theme topics traditional Translated U.S. Civil War United Viking Walter Dean Walter Dean Myers Witch World World War II writing York young adult books young adult literature