More than just teaching lessons of survival and success, "Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II" offers guidance, support, encouragement, and, most of all, love, through 101 stories that show the importance of family, self-respect, dreams, and life.
An exploration of the popularity of young adult literature, presenting ways in which it can be used in the classroom. The chapters cover a range of topics such as book reviewing, poetry, picture books and author studies. It concludes with a list of young adult literature Web sites.
This innovative text includes the most current readings that will help teachers provide a rich educational experience for adolescents throughout the middle and secondary curriculum--while nourishing their love of reading. This is not an encyclopedic reference book of the past--but rather a cutting edge resource for teachers who want to connect ...
Based on a genre approach to literature, Essentials of Adolescent Literature offers a comprehensive, clear, and succinct overview of adolescent literature, includes recommended books listed by genre and topic, and provides clearly stated positions on current issues affecting schools and literature. Written by well-known authors Carl Tomlinson and ...
Parents, teachers, and librarians are often puzzled by the seemingly endless choices for reading material for young people. What's good, what's trash, what's going to hold their interest? Nancy Pearl, America's favorite librarian, has read widely in all the genres and happily points the way in "Book Crush." Divided into three sections -- Easy ...
With humor and a solid grounding in reality, this guide helps writers to better understand the ins and outs of the young adult genre, how to stay inspired, and how to avoid common mistakes in trying to reach teens. Answering questions such as How do writers break in to the flourishing young adult market? How do they tap their wild side and find ...
When the Center for Children's Books was established at the University of Chicago in 1945 one of its goals in setting up a collection of trade books written for children was the evaluation and analysis of books in terms of uses, appeals, and literary quality. The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, which grew out of a memorandum that ...
This practical methods book provides future middle and high school English teachers with the direction they'll need to choose adolescent literature and to develop ideas for teaching it. Using a highly effective conversational tone, the book provides the latest information about young adult literature in a short, concisely written, classroom ...
Stuck for something to read? Whether you're searching for a book to blow your mind and change your life, or just a light read for the beach, "The Ultimate Teen Book Guide "is the perfect place to start. The book includes recommendations from teen reviewers and your favorite authors--over 700 books total--so prepare to be inspired! Whether you like ...
This engaging text helps teachers learn how to motivate teenagers to become life-long readers. It offers a comprehensive, reader-friendly introduction to young adult literature framed within a rich literary, historical, and social context. It also provides teachers with criteria for evaluating books of all genres, from poetry and nonfiction to ...
A second collection of inspirational stories written specifically for teenagers. Topics covered include family life, school situations, and self-esteem.
What do adolescents care about? Chatting on-line with friends, movies, their favorite bands . . . but many are also avid readers. What motivates some of these "typical teens" to become lifelong readers and others to slide by with the minimum amount of assigned reading? Teri Lesesne says the key is finding the books that get them hooked in the ...
"500 Great Books for Teens" is divided into 21 sections, including adventure and survival, horror, graphic novels, humor, mystery, and poetry, each with additional reading lists.
To millions of kids, the books they read are more than entertainmenta they are mirrors to hold up to their own lives. And the creators of those books are more than just writersathey are mentors, confidants, friends, sometimes the only ones who understand. There is often an unspoken, unseen bond between an author and his or her readers. "Dear ...
This handbook describes more than 500 of the best new titles for reluctant teen readers and serves as a wonderful readers' advisory and collection development tool.
Picture Writing is the newest book in the Write for Kids Library. In this book, successful children's book author Anastasia Suen shows readers how to use descriptive language to create vivid stories for kids. Like the other books in the Write for Kids Library, Picture Writing takes a hands-on approach. Two features of this book - the Try It ...
Authors Marsha M. Sprague and Kara K. Keeling propose a language arts curriculum that incorporates literature-based discussions to help adolescent girls deal constructively with difficult issues and develop their own authentic voices. To help you put such a curriculum into action, this book offers the following resources: a research base to frame ...
A one-volume short-entry encyclopedia containing information about the characters, plots, authors, and other topics found in classic and contemporary books for young readers.
Struggling readers become successful readers when they actively participate in classroom-proven literacy centers. Created especially for middle school, these 40 ready-to-go centers with directions and reproducibles engage students for practicing main idea, cause and effect, compare and contrast, vocabulary in context, sequence of events, ...
"Gather aroundaitas story time!" This comprehensive guide introduces aspiring storytellers to the ins and outs of writing fiction and nonfiction for young adults. Information includes an overview of writing, from dialogue and point of view to plot, setting, and character construction; choosing an agent and publisher; marketing the finished work, ...
"Young Adult Literature" is an in-depth literature survey that also models how to teach literature and reading to middle school and high school students. The first three chapters familiarize teacher candidates with the reading process of teens, discuss teen attitudes toward reading, and examine their interests and reading abilities. The genre ...
Advises librarians how to serve teens beyond the mainstream. It is easy to make assumptions about teenagers' lives - school, dating, Mum and Dad in the background, along with a house, a few siblings, and a beloved pet. But many of today's teens do not fit this idealised image, and designing teen library services based on preconceptions leaves many ...
Fully revised & updated, & drawing on distinguished review sources, this fourth edition of Bowker's classic guide includes more than 4,800 fantasy novels & story collections for children & young adults in grades 3-12. Each annotated title entry includes extensive bibliographic references, along with reading level, major awards won, recommendation ...
Helps you to evaluate your young teen literature collection and to create thematic and genre-oriented reading lists for curriculum-related and recreational reading.
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