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Features

• Packed with pedagogy to enhance student learning. Includes: glossary of literary terms, Internet resources, charts, and tables as well as:

  • Author Boxes acquaint students with prominent writers and their views on current issues as they relate to literature.

  • Film Boxes suggest ways for teachers to make connections between books and film.

  • Focus Boxes provide annotated bibliographies of new books on important topics.

• Coverage of nonfiction books is incorporated throughout each chapter and focused on in Chapter 9.

• Recommended readings allow students to move beyond the text and further explore concepts and literature presented.

New To This Edition

• Eighteen New Author Boxes include original statements by such famous writers as Judy Blume, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jack Gantos, allowing students to study their views on current issues as they relate to literature.

• Enhanced “Honor List” chart presents crucial information on the best three to ten books for young adults published each year since 1967 and shows what characteristics these "best" books have in common (Ch. 1).

• Thoroughly revised, the “Pop Culture” chapter (Ch. 3) provides background information on how modern Young Adult literature fits in with popular culture and with general adult reading to help students gain respect for the field in general as a subject of scholarship.

• Coverage of censorship has been increased (Ch. 12) to provide students with arguments to defend themselves if a book they are teaching is censored or questioned.

• Realistic fiction material has been conveniently placed in one chapter (Ch. 4) for easy reference to students.

• Material has been streamlined to make it more accesible for students. Some reading, especially in the history of Young Adult Literature and the censorship chapter, now contains timelines and charts.

• New sections on setting professional goals in Chapters 10, 11 and 12 help build support for future professionals by getting parents, counselors, and students interested in the literature of young adults.

• Literary terms are illustrated in Appendix A using examples from Young Adult literature.

• Updated and valuable bibliographies in Appendices B, C, and D cite “best” books and articles from the last few decades to help students with papers, theses, and dessertations.

Table of Contents

Most chapters conclude with “Notes” and “Titles Mentioned in the Text of Chapter.”

Specialized Contents.


Preface.

I. UNDERSTANDING YOUNG ADULTS AND BOOKS.

II. MODERN YOUNG ADULT READING.

III. ADULTS AND THE LITERATURE OF YOUNG ADULTS.

Specialized Contents.

Next Edition(s)

• Literature for Today's Young Adults, 9/E
  Nilsen, Blasingame, Donelson & Nilsen
  ©2013  |  Allyn & Bacon  |  Cloth; 504 pp  |  Estimated Availability : 04/13/2012
  ISBN-10: 0132685779  |  ISBN-13: 9780132685771
  Suggested retail price: $154.80  Net price: $116.10  (What's this?)Brief Description  | 

  

  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.

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• Literature for Today's Young Adults, 8/E
  Nilsen & Donelson
  ©2009  |  Allyn & Bacon  |  Cloth; 512 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205593232  |  ISBN-13: 9780205593231
  Suggested retail price: $154.80  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $116.10  (What's this?)Brief Description  | 

  

  Thoroughly updated and with new features, Literature for Today's Young Adults, Eighth Edition, the number one book in Young Adult Literature, continues to help teachers learn how to motivate teenagers to become life-long readers.

   

  Writing with the belief that students will have a better chance of becoming life-long readers if they have choices and enjoy what they read, renowned authors Alleen Nilsen and Ken Donelson offer a comprehensive, reader-friendly introduction to young adult literature framed within a literary, historical, and social context. The authors provide teachers with criteria for evaluating books of all genres, from poetry and nonfiction to mysteries, science fiction, and graphic novels. Coverage of timely issues such as pop culture and mass media have been added to help teachers connect with students' lives outside the classroom.

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Literature for Today's Young Adults Gets Better and Better…

With new features and thoroughly updated, the number one book in Young Adult Literature continues to help teachers learn how to motivate teenagers to become life-long readers. Written with the belief that students will have a better chance of becoming life-long readers if they have choices in what they read and if they enjoy it, renowned authors Alleen Nilsen and Ken Donelson offer a comprehensive, reader-friendly introduction to young adult literature framed within a rich literary, historical, and social context.

New To This Edition!

• 18 New Author Boxes include original statements by such famous writers as Judy Blume, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jack Gantos allowing students to study their views on current issues as they relate to literature.
• Enhanced Honor List chart presents crucial information on the best 3 to 10 books for young adults published each year since 1967 and shows what characteristics these “best” books have in common (Chapter 1).
• Thoroughly revised, the Pop Culture chapter (Ch. 3) provides background information on how modern Young Adult literature fits in with popular culture and with general adult reading to help students gain respect for the field in general as a subject of scholarship.
• Coverage of censorship has been increased (Ch. 12) to provide students with arguments to defend themselves if a book they are teaching is censored or questioned.

Praise for Literature for Today's Young Adults:

“I truly enjoy using this text.”
Professor Linda Tabers-Kwak, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

“…students have responded that this is the best textbook they have ever used in any class and that it is one they will not “sell back” to the bookstore.”
Professor Cora Dunkley, University of South Florida

About Your Authors:

Ken Donelson and Alleen Nilsen have a long history of working to promote reading by young adults. In the 1970's, they co-founded what is now The ALAN Review for the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE, and in the 1980's they were co-editors of The English Journal. Although Dr. Donelson retired from ASU in 2002, they continue to work together to make this seventh edition as updated, and as comprehensive and readable as its predecessors.

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This online resource is available at no cost at http://www.ablongman.com/donelson7e.
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