Young Adult Literature

A former school library media specialist and public librarian, Dr. Katherine Bucher has written several books including Teaching in the Middle School (2009), Classroom Management; Models Applications and Cases (2007), and Books about the Middle East (2008), as well as 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 is an assistant 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 Draper: Embracing Literacy (2009), and co-author (with Gail K. Dickinson) of Integrating Multicultural Literature in Libraries and Classrooms in Secondary Schools (2007).

Preface

 

PART I            Defining Adolescents and Their Literature

 

Chapter 1         Understanding Young Adult Literature

Chapter 2         Reviewing and Evaluating Young Adult Literature

 

            PART II           Connecting Adolescents and Their Literature

 

Chapter 3         Teaching, Using, and Appreciating Young Adult Literature        

Chapter 4         Protecting Intellectual Freedom 

 

 

            PART III          Exploring Young adult Literature

 

Chapter 5         Exploring Contemporary Realistic Fiction 

Chapter 6         Exploring Adventure, Mystery, and Humor 

Chapter 7         Exploring Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror

Fiction 

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 — complete subject, author, title index