Literature for Today's Young Adults

Pearson New International Edition

Alleen Nilsen, James Blasingame Jr., Kenneth Donelson, Don Nilsen (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

452 Seiten

2013 | 9th edition
Pearson Education Limited (Verlag)
978-1-292-04141-4 (ISBN)

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The number one book in the field, Literature for Today's Young Adults, helps teachers learn how to motivate teenagers to become life-long readers and now features the voices of two new co-authors and ten of the authors' Ph.D. students in a thorough update of critical topics and ideas. A comprehensive, reader-friendly introduction to young adult literature, this book provides a look at YA literature framed within a literary, historical, and social context. Using this guide, teachers see how to evaluate books of all genres, from poetry and nonfiction to fantasies, drama, the supernatural, adventure, sports, mysteries, science fiction, graphic novels, and more. Long respected as the leading textbook in university English departments, colleges of education, and schools of library science, this new edition is even more accessible than its predecessors and includes a number of updated topics of interest to a variety of audiences: teachers of English, reading, social studies, and ESL; as well as librarians, parents, counselors, and other group leaders.
The challenges of using Young Adult literature with English Language Learners is explored, while one full chapter deals with Digital and Other New Literacies for Teachers and Librarians (new Ch. 3), and the final chapter (12) focuses on the increasingly important topic of censorship.

Part One: Understanding Young Adults and Books

Chapter 1    Young Adults and Their Reading

Chapter 2 A Brief History of Young Adult Literature

Chapter 3 Digital and Other New Literacies for Teachers and Librarians

Part Two: Modern Young Adult Reading

Chapter 4 Contemporary Realistic Fiction: From Romances to Tragedies to Magical Realism

Chapter 5    Fantasy, Supernatural, Science Fiction, Utopias, and Dystopias

Chapter 6 Poetry, Drama, Humor, and New Media

Chapter 7    Adventure, Westerns, Sports, and Mysteries

Chapter 8 Historical Fiction: Of People and Places

Chapter 9    Nonfiction: Information, Literary Nonfiction, Biographies, and Self-Help Books

Part Three: Adults and the Literature of Young Adults

Chapter 10    Evaluating, Promoting, and Using Young Adult Books

Chapter 11 Young Adult Literature in the English Class

Chapter 12    Censorship: Of Worrying and Wondering

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.2013
Verlagsort	Harlow
Sprache	englisch
Maße	217 x 276 mm
Gewicht	950 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
ISBN-10	1-292-04141-2 / 1292041412
ISBN-13	978-1-292-04141-4 / 9781292041414
Zustand	Neuware