young adult literature, american

Presents thematic units based on award-winning young adult novels, keeping in mind the theory of multiple intelligences and how it applies to curriculum design and assessment approaches.

Presents biographical information about 100 authors who write for junior high and high school aged readers, with commentary on the writer's better known books, critical analyses, and bibliographies.

A guide to teaching with books having received the Coretta Scott King Award, including an annotated bibliography of more than one hundred works honored, selected biographies of authors and illustrators, and classroom applications for twelve books, with lesson plan ideas for language arts, math, social studies, and science.

Provides strategies and lesson plans for using multicultural literature in middle and secondary classrooms; discussing the cultivation of readers, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, religion, socioeconomics, geographic orientation, language and country of origin, popular culture, and advocacy. Includes book list and suggestions for classroom use.

A practical, easy-to-use guide of recommended titles and booktalks aimed at young readers, with a focus on contemporary multicultural fiction and history.

Provides brief introductions to the lives and works of 85 important modern young adult writers.

Recommends forty books for middle school and high school students, providing author information, a plot summary, and suggested activities for each title; indexed by author/title, and genres/themes/activities.

Presents brief profiles of more than 150 books for children and young adults by Native Americans, and also lists anthologies, resources on Native Americans, and Web sites of Native American storytellers.

Offers strategies for librarians, teachers, and parents to help develop literacy in boys, and focuses on the particular genres that interest them such as adventure, science fiction, fantasy, and mysteries.

Presents biographical profiles of one hundred young adult authors, including Sherman Alexie, Garth Nix, J. K. Rowling, and Laura Ingalls Wilder, each providing a primary and secondary bibliography.