young adult literature

Includes Vivien Alcock, Sue Ellen Bridgers, Bruce Brooks, Alice Childress, Pat Conroy, Jim Davis, Leon Garfield, Jean Craighead George, Matt Groening, Ron Howard, John Irving, Bob Kane, Maxine Hong Kingston, Margaret Hahy, Milton Meltzer, Nicholasa Mohr, Ouida Sebestyen, Steven Spielberg, Mary Stolz, Maia Wojciechowska, Tom Wolfe, Patricia C. Wrede.

A guide to using Orca Soundings books in the classroom, providing a summary, pre-reading idea, writing and research activities, elements of the novel, discussion questions, and writing tools for each book in the series, and including classroom teaching ideas, and lists of books grouped by theme, subject, and title.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide brief summaries of more than five hundred nonfiction books for teen readers, each including the author, title, publisher, publication date, ISBN, and suggested reading level; grouped by genre and reading interest.

Tips for enhancing library services for young adults and strategies for implementing various services.

Contains teaching guides for fifty young adult novels, arranged alphabetically by title, each including a list of subjects, a summary, comments for the teacher, a series of discussion questions and writing exercises, suggested research questions, and, in some cases, a vocabulary list.

A selective, annotated list of fiction in series and sequels written for children and young adults.