Young adult literature in the 21st century
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Boston :
McGraw-Hill Higher Education ,
c2009
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Adolescence: defining moments
- 2. The young adult reader
- 3. Trends and issues in young adult literature
- 4. Realistic fiction (reading skill: making connections)
- 5. Romance, humor, and sports (reading skill: questioning)
- 6. Historical fiction (reading skills: monitoring and clarifying)
- 7. Mysteries, thrillers, and horror (reading skills: inferential thinking and predicting)
- 8. Science fiction and fantasy (reading skills: visualizing and vocabulary)
- 9. Short stories, poetry, and drama (reading skill: building fluency)
- 10. Nonfiction, autobiographies, biographies, diaries, and memoirs (reading skills: text structure and summarizing)
- 11. The classical canon and young adult literature (reading skill: synthesizing)
- 12. The popular culture influence / by Faith H. Wallace
- 13. YA literature and writing: motivating young writers in the real world / by James Blasingame