Get teens excited about reading by making connections with their reading interests and the genres they love.
Pressured by his coach, teammates, and father to perform well in football, junior Miles Manning considers taking steroids. 2. Freedman, Jeri. Steroids: High-Risk Performance Drugs. New York: Rosen Publishing, 2009. 64p. $29.95.
Floyd. Cooper. (art). Becoming. Billie. Holiday. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press/Wordsong, 2008. 117p. $19.95. ISBN-13: 978 1 59078 507 2. [fictional verse memoir] JS, CG Themes/Topics: jazz, Harlem, 1920s and 1930s, ...
... 25–27 Consequences: adverse, 49–52, 109–12, 156–58, 208–11; instructive, 57–59, 270–73; unpredicted, 141–44, 179–82, 185–88 Contentment, 216–19 Cooking, 31, 54–56 Cooney, Caroline B., 84, 122, 134–36 Cooper, Floyd, 205–6 Cormier, ...
Genre Talks for Teens: Booktalks and More for Every Teen Reading Interest. Santa Barbara: Libraries Unlimited, 2009. Wadham, Rachel. This Is My Life: A Guide to Realistic Fiction for Teens. Santa Barbara: Libraries Unlimited, 2010.
... Caroline B., 77, 78 Cooperation, 20–22, 98–100 Cooper, Floyd, 17 Cooper, Michael L.,27,34,91,180–82 Corruption,80–82, 105–8,166 Courage: captivity,69–71, 82–85; disaster, 98–102; discrimination, 30–34; family, 89–91,115–17,150–52; ...
Teenlit novels provide us with a range of clues that can be examined to understand how participation in fictional events is organized. Apart from narrators' descriptions, which typically furnish details about where an event takes place, ...
... rather abruptly (high frequency) and thereafter it gains momentum and increases by age to the point where young people hardly use any other form. ... Interestingly, in the late eighteenth century, a new genre of fiction developed.
This collection explores the sexual content of U.S. mass media and its influence in the lives of adolescents.
Coming of Age in Popular Culture: Teenagers, Adolescence, and the Art of Growing Up covers a breadth of media presentations of the transition from childhood to adulthood from the 1950s to the year 2010.
One of the best-selling young adult books of all time, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Zindel.