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Young Originals: Emily Wilkens and the Teen Sophisticate
YOUNG ORIGINALS
MPN: 254656d812908a7da6e34f92fffccdbd
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The King: A Young Adult Fantasy
Won gold in the 2014 Literary Classics Book Awards for faith-based YA fiction, a finalist in the 2014 USA Book Awards for religious fiction, winner in the 9th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards for spirituality, and finalist in the visionary category...
MPN: 2157312725c40b6b3d6e0bbd37e19d7e
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Chris Crutcher: A Stotan for Young Adults
Chris Crutcher is a literary icon in the field of young adult literature. With his first book, Running Loose published in 1983, Crutcher established a reputation for giving young adults a voice in realistic fiction. Since then, Crutcher has written a number of books with spot-on depictions of young adults growing through hard times, including Ironman, Whale Talk, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, and Stotan In Chris Crutcher: A Stotan for Young Adults, Bryan Gillis and Pam B. Cole examine the life, career, and ...
MPN: 9e127b63d3fc6096100ffbaa8f54051d
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Literature for Today's Young Adults
Long respected as the number one book in the field, "Literature for Today's Young Adults" gives teachers, librarians, parents, counselors, and other group leaders-as well as instructors and students in college courses in Adolescent/Young Adult Literature-a comprehensive look at YA literature framed within a literary, historical, and social context as a means to motivating teens to become life-long readers. Included is helpful information on evaluating YA books of all genres, using YA literature effectively ...
MPN: 95e58a31942056feb6568ac443c06b7f
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The Critical Merits of Young Adult Literature: Coming of Age
This examination of the literary effectiveness of young adult literature from a critical, research-oriented perspective answers two key questions asked by many teachers and scholars in the field: Does young adult literature stand up on its own as literature? Is it worthy of close study? The treatment is both conceptual and pragmatic. Each chapter discusses a topical text set of YA novels in a conceptual framework - how these novels contribute to or deconstruct conventional wisdom about key topics from ident...
MPN: 541f931240b585088788e5fda4c1f0ea
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Twentysomething: Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?
CD/Spoken Word, Blackstone Audio Inc, 2012, ISBN13 9781470839833, ISBN10 1470839830
MPN: d1d8895dcb441804b134a64c0d506070
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Teaching Young Adult Literature Today: Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today introduces the reader to what is current and relevant in the plethora of good books available for adolescents. More importantly, literary experts illustrate how teachers everywhere can help their students become lifelong readers by simply introducing them to great reads smart, insightful, and engaging books that are specifically written for adolescents. Hayn, Kaplan, and their contributors address a wide range of topics: how to avoid common obstacles to using YAL; selec...
MPN: 578e8990437c90c100dfbb78eec66c74
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Immigration Narratives in Young Adult Literature: Crossing Borders
Although the United States prides itself as a nation of diversity, the country that boasts of its immigrant past also wrestles with much of its immigrant present. While conflicting attitudes about immigration are debated, newcomers both legal and otherwise continue to arrive on American soil. And books about the immigrant experience aimed at both adults and youth are published with a fair amount of frequency. In Immigration Narrative in Young Adult Literature: Crossing Borders, Joanne Brown explores the exp...
MPN: 356ef29aff690612b75e7a7f72f8f85c
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Reproductive Health and Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults
Hardcover, Springer Verlag, 2011, ISBN13 9789400724914, ISBN10 9400724918
MPN: 164bcc27a98ecc0248962bf1bacbd385
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Deschooling L'earning: Young Adults and the New Spirit of Capitalism
DESCHOOLING L'EARNING
MPN: 387412b19ba5a6b480f08b30dcaa5a99
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A Year Up: Helping Young Adults Move from Poverty to Professional Careers in a Single Year
A YEAR UP
MPN: 7d728061e0617ec54fb552353ab02c82
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Disabling Characters: Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature
Paperback, Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2015, ISBN13 9781433126222, ISBN10 1433126222
MPN: 0a97cd23b4898b9ed8a8652cfb320403
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