young adult literature, american

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.

Contains articles on writers whose works are popular with young adults, including contemporary authors, such as Francesca Lia Block and Maya Angelou, and classic authors, such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Louisa May Alcott.

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.

Profiles ten authors popular with teenage readers: Judy Blume, Virginia Hamilton, Julius Lester, Lois Lowry, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Katherine Paterson, Gary Paulsen, Gary Soto, R.L. Stine, and Laurence Yep; and includes primary and secondary bibliographies.