young adult literature

A guide to young adult literature dealing with sex and sexuality to assist public and school librarians in developing selection policies in the subject area and sharing the policy with teachers, parents, administrators, and teens. Includes reviews of more than one hundred books with ratings on sexual content, language, and violence, as well as recommended age levels and the usage of words that may spark controversy.

Contains annotated listings of approximately 15,000 recommended books for high school readers with fiction and nonfiction titles published through 2008; and includes ISBN, length and price, grade-level, review citations, audio availability, and more.

Contains reviews and recommendations of five hundred books for teenagers, including Australian and international titles; grouped by genre.

Presents a comprehensive bibliography of juvenile and young adult literature of the Great Depression era of the 1930s and includes both fiction and nonfiction, biographies, oral histories, memoirs, and photographs, and music.

Isaiah, a rogue Templar agent, has discovered both the faith prong and the fear prong of the powerful Trident of Eden relic. Should he possess the devotion prong, there is little that can stop him from destroying the world. Owen and his fellow teens have established an uneasy alliance across Assassin and Templar lines in order to stop Isaiah while they still can. They discover that it is on Viking battlefields that the secrets of the devotion prong lie. The actions they take will change the world of Assassin's Creed forever.

Includes profiles of people in the writing field who are of interest to young readers.

When seventeen-year-old Charlie Grant's four older siblings reunite for a wedding, she is determined they will have a perfect weekend before the family home is sold, but last-minute disasters abound.

A bibliography of more than one thousand young adult books featuring mixed-heritage characters and families, classified according to heritage.