Description
CONNECTIONS... this revision includes more ways for teachers to connect with their adolescent students, and help them connect with good literature.
The second edition of Young Adult Literature: Exploration, Evaluation, and Appreciation is comprehensive enough to ensure pre-service and practicing teachers an understanding of literature that will interest and engage today’s adolescents, yet remains slim enough to provide teachers an opportunity to read the rich literature now available for teens and pre-teens. This text stresses the need to connect adolescents with high quality and valued titles in every genre but also points out the burgeoning literature of graphic novels, comic books, and nontraditional titles on horror and humor that motivate young readers. New to this edition are teaching ideas that explore multiple readings to connect to new contexts as teachers engage students in an array of contemporary books.
Table of Contents
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
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Yound Adult Literature: Exploration, Evaluation and Appreciation, CourseSmart eTextbook, 2nd Edition
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$35.99 | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-700224-5
