Contains eleven essays, each one co-authored by a literacy expert and a therapist, that provide information on how literature can be used to help troubled teenagers cope with various family problems.
Presents fourteen strategies for getting students to read by using young adult novels in conjunction with commonly-taught classics, and includes references, and subject, author, and title indexes.
Offers a collection of letters from students to an assortment of authors about the impact of their work on the lives of their readers, accompanied by the author's responses.
