From Hinton to Hamlet Building Bridges Between Young Adult Literature and the Classics

Name: From Hinton to Hamlet Building Bridges Between Young Adult Literature and the Classics
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ISBN: 9780313324529

ISBN-10: 0313324522

ISBN-13: 9780313324529

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Sarah K. Herz, Donald R. Gallo

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The required classics in grades 7-12 are often too complex and removed from adolescent experience. This informative text uses thematic groupings built around recent young adult literature (YAL) as bridges to the classics. This second edition, which the authors have revised and greatly expanded, emphasizes the goal of helping teenagers become lifetime readers, as well as critical and confident readers. By pairing the required classics and young adult literature around common themes, the authors illustrate specific theme connections and include extensive lists of annotated YAL titles at the end of each classic title. New to this second edition: Features more than 1,000 titles, hundreds…

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List price: $51.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 8/30/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 276
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

SARAH K. HERZ is a former English teacher in Westport, CT. She frequently conducts workshops at English and library conferences, and is an article reviewer for English Journal and the ALAN Review.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction


How I Found a Treasure


Trove of Readers with Young Adult Literature


What Is Young Adult Literature Anyway?


Directing Versus Exploring


How to Get to Where You're Going without a Literary Map Building Bridges


Getting Students from Wherever They Are to Where the Curriculum Says They Should Be What Else?


Other Approaches Adolescents and Libraries: Forging a Vital


Relationship Other Backyards: Using Young Adult Literature across Other Disciplines


What's Next?


Where Can I Find More Information?


Works Cited


Index