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Written for junior high and high school teachers and librarians, this textbook presents student choice as the key to encouraging lifelong reading. Chapters discuss the history of adolescent literature, pop culture, specific genres such as poetry, fantasy, and history, the evaluation of young adult b

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• Most chapters conclude with
• "Notes" and "Titles Mentioned in the Text of Chapter"
• Specialized Contents
• Preface
• I Understanding Young Adults And Books
• 1 Young Adults and Their Reading
• What Is Young Adult Literature
• A Brief Unsettled Heritage
• Today's Authors
• Characteristics of the Best Young Adult Literature
• Stages of Literary Appreciation
• Questions about Gender and Literacy
• 2 A Brief History of Adolescent Literature
• 1800-1900: A Century of Purity with a Few Passions
• A Sampling of Books Appreciated by Young Adults 1864-1965
• 1900-1940: From the Safety of Romance to the Beginning of Realism
• 1940-1966: From Certainty to Uncertainty
• 3 Pop Culture, YA Lit, Big Business, and Archetypal Images
• YA Lit as Big Business
• A Survey of Students' Relationships to Popular Media
• Archetypes in Literature and the Pop Culture
• II Modern Young Adult Reading
• 4 Contemporary Realistic Fiction: From Tragedies to Romances
• The Modern Problem Novel
• What Are the Problems
• More Optimistic Novels
• Wish-Fulfilling Stories
• 5 Poetry, Drama, and Humor
• A New Day for Poetry
• Making Drama a Class Act
• Humor Matters
• 6 Adventure, Sports, Mysteries, and the Supernatural
• Adventure Stories
• Sports and the Game of Life
• Mysteries
• Stories of the Supernatural
• 7 Fantasy, Science Fiction, Utopias, and Dystopias
• What Is Fantasy?
• Other Kinds of Fantasy
• What Is Science Fiction?
• Types of Science Fiction
• Utopias and Dystopias
• 8 History and History Makers: Of People and Places
• Historical Fiction
• Westerns
• Books About War
• Literature of the Holocaust
• Books About Vietnam
• 9 Nonfiction: Information, Literary Nonfiction, Biographies and Self-Help Books
• Information Books
• Narrative or Storytelling in Nonfiction
• Memoirs and Personal Experiences
• Biographies
• Autobiographies
• Nonfiction to Help Teenagers Learn Who They Are and Where They Fit
• Outstanding Authors of Nonfiction for Young Adults
• III Adults And The Literature Of Young Adults
• 10 Evaluating, Promoting, and Using Young Adult Books
• Evaluating Young Adult Literature
• Deciding on the Literary Canon
• Teaching Ethnic Literature
• Using Young Adult Literature in the Library
• Using Young Adult Books in the Reading Classroom
• Using Young Adult Books in the Social Studies Class
• Parents and Young Adult Literature
• Clarifying Human Relations and Values
• 11 Literature in the English Class: Short Stories, Novels, Creative Writing, Film, and Thematic Units
• Principles of Teaching English
• Using Young Adult Literature in English Classes
• Using Short Stories in English Class
• Using Novels in English Class
• Using Young Adult Literature in Creative Writing
• Teaching Film in the English Class
• Using Thematic Units in the English Class
• 12 Censorship: Of Worrying and Wondering
• A Sampling of Early Attitudes Toward Censorship
• The State of Classroom and Library Censorship Today
• Some Assumptions about Censorship and Censors
• Attacks on Materials
• Some Court Decisions Worth Knowing
• A New Kind of Censorship
• What To Do Before and After the Censors Arrive
• A Starter Bibliography on Censorship
• Specialized Contents
• Film Boxes
• Focus Boxes
• Author Statements
• Tables and Charts

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Booklist Review

Each edition of this book has been better than the preceding, and the fourth edition is no exception. The text has been reworked, tightened, and generally updated, and important areas, such as the psychology of the adolescent and the teaching of literature in schools, have been expanded or added. Though the authors reluctantly condensed the three chapters on the history of young adult books to one, the result is a more manageable, accessible approach for the novice. While the format remains virtually the same, the illustrations are more attractive, and the addition of focus boxes of annotated titles of books, movies, and magazines is a plus (the authors encourage you to reproduce the boxes for distribution to YA readers). Also encouraging is the deliberate decision to scatter minority-related discussions throughout the text and to switch from negating myths to the more positive approach of giving the characteristics of the best YA literature. The authors have retained their valuable criteria for evaluating the various kinds of books and have added a new chart of the stages of literary appreciation that is an improvement over the earlier "birthday cake" chart, which was omitted from the third edition. One caveat: updating of appendixes seems spotty; for example, the description of Booklist as a book-selection guide does not reflect the major changes in the Books for Youth section implemented more than three years ago. However, this remains an authoritative and useful resource for youth librarians and a basic tool for the teaching of YA literature. ~--Sally Estes