Literature for Today's Young Adult

by Kenneth L. Donelson and Alleen Pace Nilsen

Book Overview

Offers selection suggestions for teachers and librarians in all areas of young adult literature, including novels, short stories, and drama. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0673997375
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Scott Foresman & Co
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 7.5" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

Helpful for teachers or parents

This textbook was extremely helpful in finding texts that students will actually read - not just glance through. It provides many different lists for every kind of reader and also helps to guide the teacher or parent as to what texts to use and how to turn these texts into lessons. I still have it and will use it throughout my teaching career as my students love the books that I have chosen using this textbook.

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.

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.

A Textbook You Will Want to Keep!

Nilsen and Donelson have created an outstanding textbook that not only gives valuable information, but is a wonderful reference source. The text includes the history of adolescent literature, the various genres, and suggestions on incorporating young adult literature into the classroom. I personally enjoyed reading excerpts on authors and their opinions on a plethora of issues. Also, within the chapters there are focus boxes that categorize books and movies into genres, with a review on each, so it is extremely easy to locate a book that you might want to use in your classoom. Young adult books are oftentimes very controversial and Nilsen and Donelson deal with this head on. Nilsen and Donelson interviewed several authors who gave their opinions on censorship and the text includes reference sources to censorship and an extensive list of books. Overall, this is a text that I will certainly not sell back. It is well crafted and easy to use!