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This study aims to disprove the myth that young adult lierature is an unsophisticated genre, unworthy of study in the secondary English classroom. Instead, it helps prove that the young adult novels provide the same craftsmanship as in all good literature and focus on universal themes that are important to all readers, regardless of age. Essays cover literacy response and interpretation, censorship, gender, multicultural concerns and the uses of young adult novels to address matters of visual literacy. Sue Ellen Bridgers, Will Hobbs and M.E. Kerr, authors of books for young adults, detail their own processes of writing and speculate on the needs and interests of the audience. This book also offers teaching recomendations - such as how to make the literature class into a community of readers and how to intergrate young adult novels into the traditional literature curriculum. The companion CD features almost 2000 young adult titles and synopses from the ALAN review to help teachers plan the study of young adult literature in the classroom.

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Virginia Monseau is Professor Emerita of English at Youngstown State University, where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in young adult literature, children's literature, composition, and English methods. She has published numerous books, articles, and reviews on young adult literature and the teaching of literature. A former high school teacher, she is a past editor of English Journal and a past president of ALAN, NCTE's Assembly on Literature for Adolescents. The series editor of Heinemann's Young Adult Novels in the Classroom Series, Monseau is also the author of Teaching the Selected Works of Robert Cormier (2007). Gary Salvner, a former elementary and secondary school teacher, is a professor of English education and chair of the English department at Youngstown State University. He teaches courses in young adult and children's literature, English methods, and composition, and codirects the YSU English Festival, a nationally recognized program for encouraging and rewarding reading and writing among young people. Salvner is also a former president of ALAN and a former Ohio College English Language Arts Educator of the Year.

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