best books

Offers ideas for creating English classrooms where students can be nourished intellectually, emotionally, and morally by literature, and includes young adult literature pairings with classic texts, tips for motivating reluctant readers, a study guide, and guidelines for curriculum development.

Presents an annotated bibliography of over one thousand fiction and nonfiction books of interest to high school students, grouped in over thirty thematic chapters, with author, subject, and title indexes.