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by: Tomlinson, Carl M.; Lynch-Brown, Carol G

ISBN: 9780137043149 | 0137043147

Based on a genre approach to literature, Essentials of Young Adult Literature offers students and instructors a well-organized, clearly-written overview of young adult literature. The text includes extensive recommended book lists organized by genre and topic and annotated for ease of selection. The text includes clearly stated positions on resistant readers, censorship, the literary canon, accountability, and technology.

PART 1: YOUNG ADULT S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

CHAPTER ONE: Understanding Young Adults and Young Adult Literature

CHAPTER TWO: Learning about Books

 

PART 2: GENRES OF LITERATURE

CHAPTER THREE: Realistic Fiction

CHAPTER FOUR: Modern Fantasy

CHAPTER FIVE: Historical Fiction

CHAPTER... MORE SIX: Nonfiction: Biography and Informational Books

CHAPTER SEVEN: Poetry

CHAPTER EIGHT: Literature for a Diverse Society

 

PART 3: LITERATURE IN THE SCHOOLS

CHAPTER NINE: Teaching Strategies

CHAPTER TEN: Resistant Readers and Young Adult Literature

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Censorship, Classics, Accountability, Technology:

Issues and Trends

 

APPENDIX A: Book Awards

APPENDIX B: Magazines

Index to Books and Authors

Subject Index

Carl M. Tomlinson taught graduate and undergraduate courses in children’s literature and language arts at Northern Illinois University. As an elementary school teacher, he packed his classroom with good children’s books and read aloud to his students every day. His research interests are literature-based reading and international children’s literature. In addition to Essentials of Young Adult Literature, he has co-authored Essentials of Children’s Literature (Allyn and Bacon) and is the editor of Children’s Books from Other Countries (Scarecrow/USBBY).

 

Carol Lynch-Brown taught graduate and undergraduate courses in children’s and young adult literature, reading, and language arts education at Florida State University.  She was a teacher in elementary school, grades 1, 2, and 4, and in middle school, grades 6 to 8, in St. Paul and Minneapolis Public Schools. She also taught English to young adults in French public schools. Literature was the foundation of her instruction in all these classroom situations. She is currently raising a teenaged grandson and seeing, once again, the benefits of literature in a young person’s life.