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| Most chapters conclude with Notes and Titles Mentioned in the Text of Chapter | |
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| Specialized Contents | |
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| Preface | |
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| Understanding Young Adults and Books | |
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| Young Adults and Their Reading | |
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| What Is Young Adult Literature | |
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| A Brief Unsettled Heritage | |
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| Today's Authors | |
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| Characteristics of the Best Young Adult Literature | |
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| Stages of Literary Appreciation | |
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| Questions about Gender and Literacy | |
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| A Brief History of Adolescent Literature | |
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| 1800-1900: A Century of Purity with a Few Passions | |
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| A Sampling of Books Appreciated by Young Adults 1864-1965 | |
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| 1900-1940: From the Safety of Romance to the Beginning of Realism | |
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| 1940-1966: From Certainty to Uncertainty | |
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| Pop Culture, YA Lit, Big Business, and Archetypal Images | |
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| YA Lit as Big Business | |
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| A Survey of Students' Relationships to Popular Media | |
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| Archetypes in Literature and the Pop Culture | |
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| Modern Young Adult Reading | |
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| Contemporary Realistic Fiction: From Tragedies to Romances | |
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| The Modern Problem Novel | |
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| What Are the Problems | |
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| More Optimistic Novels | |
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| Wish-Fulfilling Stories | |
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| Poetry, Drama, and Humor | |
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| A New Day for Poetry | |
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| Making Drama a Class Act | |
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| Humor Matters | |
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| Adventure, Sports, Mysteries, and the Supernatural | |
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| Adventure Stories | |
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| Sports and the Game of Life | |
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| Mysteries | |
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| Stories of the Supernatural | |
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| Fantasy, Science Fiction, Utopias, and Dystopias | |
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| What Is Fantasy? | |
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| Other Kinds of Fantasy | |
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| What Is Science Fiction? | |
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| Types of Science Fiction | |
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| Utopias and Dystopias | |
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| History and History Makers: Of People and Places | |
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| Historical Fiction | |
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| Westerns | |
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| Books About War | |
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| Literature of the Holocaust | |
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| Books About Vietnam | |
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| Nonfiction: Information | |
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| Literary Nonfiction | |
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| Biographies and Self-Help Books | |
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| Information Books | |
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| Narrative or Storytelling in Nonfiction | |
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| Memoirs and Personal Experiences | |
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| Biographies | |
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| Autobiographies | |
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| Nonfiction to Help Teenagers Learn | |
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| Who They Are and Where They Fit | |
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| Outstanding Authors of Nonfiction for Young Adults | |
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| Adults And The Literature Of Young Adults | |
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| Evaluating, Promoting, and Using Young Adult Books | |
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| Evaluating Young Adult Literature | |
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| Deciding on the Literary Canon | |
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| Teaching Ethnic Literature | |
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| Using Young Adult Literature in the Library | |
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| Using Young Adult Books in the Reading Classroom | |
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| Using Young Adult Books in the Social Studies Class | |
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| Parents and Young Adult Literature | |
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| Clarifying Human Relations and Values | |
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| Literature in the English Class: Short Stories | |
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| Novels | |
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| Creative Writing | |
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| Film, and Thematic Units | |
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| Principles of Teaching English | |
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| Using Young Adult Literature in English Classes | |
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| Using Short Stories in English Class | |
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| Using Novels in English Class | |
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| Using Young Adult Literature in Creative Writing | |
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| Teaching Film in the English Class | |
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| Using Thematic Units in the English Class | |
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| Censorship: Of Worrying and Wondering | |
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| A Sampling of Early Attitudes Toward Censorship | |
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| The State of Classroom and Library Censorship Today | |
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| Some Assumptions about Censorship and Censors | |
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| Attacks on Materials | |
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| Some Court Decisions Worth Knowing | |
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