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Thematic Guide To Young Adult Literature

Attribution
Alice Trupe
Publication Details
Book, Greenwood Press, 2006
Availability
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(UPPER LEVEL) PN1009.A1 T78 2006 AVAILABLE
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Description
Each chapter provides critical discussions of several important works, beginning with one or more classics and ending with a list of recommended fiction on the same theme. Among the works discussed are: The Buffalo Tree The Chocolate War Dance on My Grave The Facts Speak for Themselves Hard Love The Harmony Arms Letters from the Inside Monster Love Necessary Roughness Slave Day Tangerine And many more. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Trupe, Alice
Subject
Contents
- Abuse, sexual violence, and healing
- Accepting difference
- Accidents and adjustments
- Addressing addiction
- Animals and the environment
- Beauty’s meaning
- Breaking silence, speaking out
- Crime, suicide, and their aftermath
- Dating’s challenges
- Disease and disability
- Emotional problems confronted
- Families, traditional and redefined
- Friends forever?
- Guilty or innocent?
- Heroism : what does it mean to be a hero? / by Mary Tasillo
- History is about young adults, too
- Imagined futures
- Imagined places
- Insiders and outsiders
- Jobs : assuming adult responsibility
- Old tales retold : fairy tales, legends, myths
- Older people’s impact on our lives
- Parents’ absence, parents’ presence
- Poverty’s challenges
- Pregnancy, parenthood, abortion
- Religion and spiritual life
- School days
- Sexual identity, sexual desire
- Supernatural and alien beings : confronting the other
- Survival
- Teammates
- War’s impact
ISBN
- 0313332347
- 9780313332340
LCCN
- 2006006174
Open Library ID
- /b/OL10420500M