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Young Adult Literature: Exploration, Evaluation, and Appreciation, 3rd edition

Published by Pearson (May 29, 2013) © 2014

  • Katherine T. Bucher Old Dominion University
  • Kaaavonia M. Hinton-Johnson
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  • Readers get a look at both traditional and contemporary young adult literature, including the literature of graphic novels and comic books, and titles on horror and humor.
  • Dealing with the sensitive topic of censorship is covered in a full chapter. (Ch. 4)
  • Teachers learn what makes a young adult title great through the Considerations for Selecting Young Adult Literature feature in each genre chapter.
  • The Using the Common Core: Developing College and Career Readiness feature, found in select genre chapters, provides sample questions that foster students’ critical thinking skills.
  • The completely revised Suggested Readings feature at the end of each chapter allows teachers to enhance their knowledge of young adult literature with the most current research and scholarship.
  • The Connecting Adolescents and Their Literature feature, which suggests opportunities for students to read and relate to literature, as well as sample individual and group activities, helps teachers focus on motivating adolescents to read.
  • The Collaboration with Other Professionals feature provides teachers and library media specialists with specific examples of how they can work together to provide rich literature experiences for all students.
  • The Expanding Your Knowledge with the Internet feature helps students and instructors make the best use of various Internet sites that relate specifically to the material covered in the chapter.
  • Opportunities for engaging readers by comparing films to books are presented in the From Page to Screen with the Common Core feature.
  • The Collaborating with Other Professionals feature provides teachers with ideas for collaborating with library media specialists and instructors in other content areas.
  • The popular features from the Second Edition have been updated, among them:
    • Considerations for Selecting Young Adult Literature
    • Expanding Your Knowledge with the Internet
    • Connecting Adolescents and Their Literature
    • From Page to Screen with the Common Core (previously From Page to Screen)
    • Collaborating with Other Professionals
  • Readers find a more user-friendly book through reorganized content within the chapters.
  • Readers can turn to the latest discussions and lists of young adult literature in this thorough updating of literature published since the Second Edition—including literature that reflects our nation’s growing cultural diversity and addresses some of the most pressing concerns for today’s adolescents, such as bullying.
  • New information about the Common Core State Standards for the English Language Arts is integrated throughout the text, including:
    • A new section on standards in Chapter 3
    • The new Common Core: Developing College and Career Readiness feature, found in select genre chapters, which provides teachers with sample questions to foster students’ critical thinking skills
    • The revised From Page to Screen with the Common Core feature, which suggests activities, influenced by the Common Core State Standards for the Language Arts, for comparing books to their film adaptations.
    • A new Expanding Your Knowledge with the Internet feature based on the Common Core State Standards
    • Several revised Connecting Adolescents and Their Literature features that include resources for teaching English Language Learners
  • Teachers can turn to the completely new Suggested Readings section in each chapter for references to recent journal articles, including those from leading young adult literature journals.
  • How to make the best use of international picture books with young adults is covered, along with suggestions for picture books teachers can use throughout the secondary school curriculum, and ones to add to the school library media center.

Preface  

PART ONE  Defining Adolescents and Their Literature  

chapter 1      Understanding Young Adult Literature  

chapter 2      Evaluating and Selecting Young Adult Literature  

PART TWO  Connecting Adolescents and Their Literature  

chapter 3      Teaching, Using, and Appreciating Young Adult Literature  

chapter 4      Protecting Intellectual Freedom  

PART THREE  Exploring Young Adult Literature  

chapter 5      Exploring Contemporary Realistic Fiction  

chapter 6      Exploring Adventure, Mystery, and Humor  

chapter 7      Exploring Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror  

chapter 8      Exploring Historical Fiction  

chapter 9      Exploring Biography  

chapter 10    Exploring Nonfiction/Information Books  

chapter 11    Exploring Poetry, Drama, and Short Stories  

chapter 12    Exploring Other Formats: Comics, Graphic (Comic-Format) Novels, Picture Books, and Magazines  

Index 

Professor Emerita of Educational Curriculum and Instruction at Old Dominion University, Dr. Katherine T. Bucher has written several books including Teaching in the Middle School (2011), Classroom Management; Models Applications and Cases (2012), and co-author (with Tami Craft Al-hazza) Books about the Middle East (2008).  Dr. Bucher has also written numerous articles and book chapters. In 2008, she retired from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she served as assistant department chair and graduate program director for the school library program.


KaaVonia Hinton, PhD, is an associate professor in the Darden College of Education at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She is the author of Angela Johnson: Poetic Prose (2006) and Sharon M. Draper: Embracing Literacy (2009), and co-author (with Gail K. Dickinson) of Integrating Multicultural Literature in Libraries and Classrooms in Secondary Schools (2007) and (with Sueanne McKinney) Mathematics Literature in the K-8 Classroom and Library (2010).

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