Based on a genre approach to literature, Essentials of Young Adult Literature offers a comprehensive, clear, and succinct overview of adolescent literature, includes recommended books listed by genre and topic, and provides clearly stated positions on current issues affecting schools and literature. Written by well-known authors Carl Tomlinson and Carol Lynch-Brown, this text places emphasis on having students read a wide variety of young adult literature and addresses all types and formats of literature including novels, ...
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Based on a genre approach to literature, Essentials of Young Adult Literature offers a comprehensive, clear, and succinct overview of adolescent literature, includes recommended books listed by genre and topic, and provides clearly stated positions on current issues affecting schools and literature. Written by well-known authors Carl Tomlinson and Carol Lynch-Brown, this text places emphasis on having students read a wide variety of young adult literature and addresses all types and formats of literature including novels, short stories, graphic novels, and picture books for older readers. It will prepare pre-service teachers to be better able to meet the needs and match the reading interests of their students. In addition, notable authors are featured in each genre chapter and multicultural and international literature is integrated throughout the text as well as treated more fully in its own chapter. chapters that provide practical strategies for connecting secondary school students with young adult books such as how to select books that students will read and enjoy, how to motivate resistant readers to read, and how to develop text sets for classroom study across the curriculum. Teachers will be equipped with the knowledge to use trade books as excellent teaching and learning materials and will not be limited to using textbooks alone. Finally, Dr. Tomlinson and Dr. Lynch-Brown engage readers in the text by offering a thorough discussion of the major trends and issues affecting young adult literature, such as censorship, the literary canon, and accountability.
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