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: No matter the location, schools are guided by standards, including Common Core State Standards. This collection of contributions by some of the country’s leading literacy experts offers practical suggestions for implementing young adult literature to meet the demand that standards mandate for focusing on nonfiction in teaching literacy...read more

A JAG investigation into the double murder of a Russian scientist and a United States Navy nurse drags the investigators deep into the treacherous Greenland Sea

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: This book offers a multifaceted approach to the world of young adults, everything from Ray Schrock's use of Walter Dean Myers' sports stories to discuss race relations and cultural politics to Joyce Litton's analysis of the highly popular "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Quartet"...read more

A JAG investigation into the double murder of a Russian scientist and a U.S. Navy nurse drags the investigators deep into the treacherous Greenland Sea. Original. (A CBS-TV series)