Synopses & Reviews
Connect with adolescent students—and help them connect with good literature! This engaging, informative, and balanced look at the world of young adult literature shows teachers how.
What will engage today’s adolescents? And what will help them connect with high quality and valued titles in every genre, including the literature of graphic novels and comic books, as well as the horror and humor titles that especially captivate today’s young readers? These are the issues this text explores as it provides teachers with a number of practical suggestions and strategies, looks at diversity and multicultural literature, approaches the sensitivities of censorship, explores the Internet and film adaptations of young literature, demonstrates how to collaborate with other professionals; and much more.
Brief enough to give readers the opportunity to read the books themselves, yet comprehensive enough to ensure that teachers truly understand adolescents, their literature, and how to connect the two, this book provides what’s needed to ensure a rich educational experience for adolescents, while nourishing their love of reading.
Features in this new edition include:
- Updates to the widely popular features from the Second Edition
- Reorganized content for a more user-friendly approach
- Updated lists of young adult literature
- New information and features about the Common Core Standards for the English Language Arts
- New literature titles that reflect our increasingly multicultural society and contemporary issues, such as bullying
- Aids for encouraging critical thinking
- Resources for teaching English Language Learners
- New Suggested Readings
Review
"...this is a perfect text for college students. Young adults enjoy texts that are
organized,
concise, and
relevant. This text lives up to that obligation and also, does so much more. The authors provide a comprehensive and engaging approach to the study of young adult literature — both fiction and non-fiction — and beckon their readers to learn so much through its many ancillary and critical thinking questions and activities. This is the perfect text for college students and teachers eager to learn about good books for teens and how best to motivate life-long readers." ---
Jeffrey Stuart Kaplan,
University of Central Florida
"The authors spend just the right amount of time explaining the material and providing examples. Novice and experienced individuals who want to know more about young adult literature will find this text a rich resource for becoming more knowledgeable about a field of study that is only now coming into its own. And classroom teachers will find this text an excellent place to find ideas, activities, and strategies for motivating young people to become life-long readers." --- Jeffrey Stuart Kaplan, University of Central Florida
"Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive text that focuses of various genres in a clear and no-fuss format." --- Andrea Neptune, Sierra College
"This text is a nice resource for anyone teaching Young Adult literature. The internet resources and Suggested Readings are excellent. The examples are current and up-to-date." --- Patricia L. Jones, University of South Florida
Synopsis
Pre- and in-service teachers get what they need to connect with adolescent students and to help them connect with good literature in this engaging, balanced look at the world of young adult literature. Here readers get foundational knowledge combined with a look at the pathways leading to the literature itself, to begin to open the door to exploring young adult literature. Brief enough to give readers the opportunity to read the books themselves, yet comprehensive enough to ensure that teachers truly understand adolescents, their literature, and how to connect the two,
Young Adult Literature by Bucher and Hinton provides what s needed to ensure a rich educational experience for adolescents, while nourishing their love of reading.
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Synopsis
Gives pre- and in-service teachers a firm foundation and practical advice for connecting with adolescent students, and in turn helping them connect with literature.
KEY TOPICS Censorship; exploring a variety of literature including contemporary realistic fiction, adventure, mystery, humor, science fiction, fantasy, horror, historical fiction, biography, nonfiction, information books, poetry, drama, short stories, comics, graphic novels, picture books, and magazines
MARKET Pre- and in-service teachers of pre-teens and teens; library and media specialists
Synopsis
Pre- and in-service teachers get what they need to connect with adolescent students—and to help them connect with good literature—in this engaging, balanced look at the world of young adult literature. Here readers get foundational knowledge combined with a look at the pathways leading to the literature itself, to begin to open the door to exploring young adult literature. Brief enough to give readers the opportunity to read the books themselves, yet comprehensive enough to ensure that teachers truly understand adolescents, their literature, and how to connect the two, Young Adult Literature by Bucher and Hinton provides what’s needed to ensure a rich educational experience for adolescents, while nourishing their love of reading.
About the Author
Professor Emerita of Educational Curriculum and Instruction at Old Dominion University, Dr. Katherine T. Bucher has written several books including Teaching in the Middle School (2011), Classroom Management; Models Applications and Cases (2012), and co-author (with Tami Craft Al-hazza) Books about the Middle East (2008). Dr. Bucher has also written numerous articles and book chapters. In 2008, she retired from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she served as assistant department chair and graduate program director for the school library program.
KaaVonia Hinton, PhD, is an associate professor in the Darden College of Education at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She is the author of Angela Johnson: Poetic Prose (2006) and Sharon M. Draper: Embracing Literacy (2009), and co-author (with Gail K. Dickinson) of Integrating Multicultural Literature in Libraries and Classrooms in Secondary Schools (2007) and (with Sueanne McKinney) Mathematics Literature in the K-8 Classroom and Library (2010).
Table of Contents
Preface
PART ONE Defining Adolescents and Their Literature
chapter 1 Understanding Young Adult Literature
chapter 2 Evaluating and Selecting Young Adult Literature
PART TWO Connecting Adolescents and Their Literature
chapter 3 Teaching, Using, and Appreciating Young Adult Literature
chapter 4 Protecting Intellectual Freedom
PART THREE Exploring Young Adult Literature
chapter 5 Exploring Contemporary Realistic Fiction
chapter 6 Exploring Adventure, Mystery, and Humor
chapter 7 Exploring Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
chapter 8 Exploring Historical Fiction
chapter 9 Exploring Biography
chapter 10 Exploring Nonfiction/Information Books
chapter 11 Exploring Poetry, Drama, and Short Stories
chapter 12 Exploring Other Formats: Comics, Graphic (Comic-Format) Novels, Picture Books, and Magazines
Index