Product Description: The authors who contributed to this text believe that young adult literature (YAL) can meet the Common Core’s push to include literacy across content areas, as well as meet the standards in creative and effective ways. This text is intended to give educators a resource to aid them in creating a literacy curriculum...read more

Product Description: Support current educational initiatives with a ready-to-use tool that will help you with selection, motivation, and skill building relative to titles published within the last five years.• Helps librarians promote new fiction and nonfiction to teens and to build literacy• Supports the new national and state standards through learning extensions • Offers read-alikes for titles popular with teens• Features skill-building exercises• Includes selection criteria that speak to appropriateness and appea...read more

Product Description: There are plenty of mysteries in teens' lives, including physical and emotional changes, uncertainty about the future, and feelings between people. Seen in this light, the appeal of these stories for this age group makes perfect sense: through a progression of plot and clues, the ending of a teen mystery book provides expected conclusions after an entertaining escape from reality...read more

Product Description: With the explosion in YA publishing, it s harder than ever to separate good books from the rest. Booklist magazine's editors deep and broad knowledge of the landscape offers indispensable guidance, and here they bring together the very best of the best books for young adults published since the turn of the 21st century...read more

Product Description: This invaluable guide enables librarians as well as patrons and teachers to identify the best books for high school readers out of the thousands published each year.• Supplies concise, lively annotations and review citations on everything from literary classics and non-fiction titles to graphic novels• Provides quick access to information for both library staff and patrons with thematic, curriculum-oriented organization and clear subject breakdowns• Indicates which books are also available in audio format and in eBook format―valuable information for collection development and reading specialists• Identifies award-winning and series title...read more

Product Description: Teaching Young Adult Literature: Developing Students As World Citizens (by Thomas W. Bean, Judith Dunkerly-Bean, and Helen Harper) is a middle and secondary school methods text that introduces pre-service teachers in teacher credential programs and in-service teachers pursuing a Masters degree in Education to the field of young adult literature for use in contemporary contexts...read more

Product Description: A must-have resource for librarians, teachers, and parents on the popular and growing area of teen nonfiction―a genre now mandated by the Common Core Standards.

Product Description: Building on the author's work in The Big Book of Teen Reading Lists, this book provides 101 new and revised reading lists created in consultation with teachers and public librarians―an invaluable resource for any educator who plans activities for children that involve using literature...read more

Product Description: Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) stalwarts Pam Spencer Holley and Julie Bartel present a painstakingly selected trove of the very best YA literature as chosen by the members of YALSA-BK. Each book is fully annotated and generously cross-referenced, creating a rich resource that offers a wealth of ideas for any school or public librarian who works with collection development, readers advisory, reference or programming for young adults...read more

Product Description: It's real, it's radical, and it rocks! Nonfiction has become the preferred genre for many teen readers, both male and female. This guide identifies some of the most popular nonfiction for today's teens, and organizes it into specific genres and reading interests that teens enjoy―from true adventure, sports and life stories, to do-it-yourself...read more