Literature for Today's Young Adults

By Alleen Pace Nilsen, Kenneth L. Donelson, Don L.F. Nilsen

Book Overview

KEY BENEFIT Long respected as the number one book in the field, this guide gives teachers, librarians, parents, counselors, and other group leaders a comprehensive look at Young Adult Literature framed within a literary, historical, and social context as a means to motivating teens to become life-long readers. KEY TOPICS Evaluating YA books of all genres, using YA literature effectively with English Language Learners, incorporating digital and other new literacies into classroom teaching, dealing with today's increasingly challenging censorsorship issues. MARKET Teachers of English reading, social studies, and ESL; librarians; parents; counselors; group leaders; and instructors and students in college courses in Adolescent/Young Adult Literature.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132685779
• ISBN13: 9780132685771
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 2.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

timely arrival

I forgot all about ordering my school books so I think i ordered this book on the same day my class started, but it still got to me in descent time.

Fast service!

This text arrived within just a few days of purchase in excellent condition. An outstanding reference for educators!

Excellent Resource for anyone interested in YA Lit

This textbook type book is an easy read, full of information regarding young adult characteristics in appealing writings, the growth and development of young adult literature and excellent listings, bibliographies and related web sites. Anyone working with young adults and literature will find this book a treasure.

A very good resource.

Literature for Today's Young Adults, by Aleen Pace Nilsen and Kenneth L. Donelson, Sixth Edition. I purchased this book for a class in adolescent literature, and have found to be the book very good and very thorough. The book includes many chapters about modern adolescent literature and their various controversies. Besides being an interesting book, I found it very thorough because it includes varied points of view, and includes many articles written by the authors themselves who write novels for young adults.

Literature for Today's Young Adults

In using the text listed above, I found it to be very helpful in finding out how to interpret different readings for the young adolescent reader. It enabled me to discover the proper way to determine if the book is adequate for a certain age group or if it should be kept for an older audience. The information contained in the book was very helpful. It uses different authors as a way to explain their views on their books. I thoroughly enjoyed the text and would recommend it to any educator that is looking to broaden their horizons and learn more about the adolescent literature arena.