Teaching Young Adult Literature Today introduces the reader to what is current and relevant in the plethora of good books available for adolescents. More importantly, literary experts illustrate how teachers everywhere can help their students become lifelong readers by simply introducing them to great readssmart, insightful, and engaging books that are specifically written for adolescents. Hayn, Kaplan, and their contributors address a wide range of topics: how to avoid common obstacles to using YAL; selecting quality YAL for classrooms while balancing these with curriculum requirements; engaging disenfranchised readers; pairing YAL with technology as an innovative way to teach curriculum standards across all content areas. Contributors also discuss more theoretical subjects, such as the absence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young adult literature in secondary classrooms; and contemporary YAL that responds to the changing expectations of digital generation readers who want to blur the boundaries between page and screen.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US college freshman-college graduate.

This book has been graded for interest at 18-18 years.

There are 304 pages in this book. This book was published in 2012 by Rowman & Littlefield .

Krista Bell is a writer and reviewer of children's books. She presents a weekly book programme on radio and runs writing workshops in schools. Ann James is a popular illustrator of children's books who runs Books Illustrated, a galley for book illustrators in Melbourne. She has illustrated many books by well-known Australian authors, including Madeline the Mermaid, Pirate Trouble for Wiggy + Boa, and Dead Sailors Don't Bite by Anna Fienberg.