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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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| A Brief History of Adolescent Literature | |
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| 1800-1900: A Century of Purity with a Few Passions | |
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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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| YA Literature, Pop Culture, and the Mass Media | |
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| Pokemon as Interactive Fiction | |
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| A Survey of Students' Relationships to Mass Media | |
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| The Ubiquitousness of Television | |
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| Animation | |
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| Magazines | |
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| A Night Out at the Movies | |
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| From Comic Books to Graphic Novels | |
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| Concluding Comments | |
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| Modern Young Adult Reading | |
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| The New Realism: Of Life and Problems | |
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| The Chocolate War as a Tragedy | |
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| Post-Columbine Musings on the Value of Today's Problem Novels | |
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| What Are the Problems? | |
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| Family Relationships | |
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| Friends and Society | |
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| Living in a Multicultural World | |
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| Body and Self | |
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| Sex-Related Problems | |
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| The Future of the Problem Novel From Realism to Postmodernism | |
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| The Old Romanticism: Of Wishing and Winning | |
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| The Adventure/Accomplishment Romance | |
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| Izzy, Willy-Nilly as an Adventure/Accomplishment Romance | |
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| Other Symbols of Accomplishment | |
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| Sports and the Game of Life | |
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| Animal and Nature Stories | |
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| Westerns | |
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| Accomplishment Stories with Religious Themes | |
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| The Love Romance | |
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| Adventure, Mysteries, the Supernatural, and Humor: From Goose Bumps to Giggles | |
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| Adventure Stories | |
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| Mysteries | |
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| Types of Mysteries | |
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| Tony Hillerman's Books | |
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| Mysteries Written for Young Adults | |
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| Stories of the Supernatural | |
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| From Chills to Giggles | |
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| Other Humor | |
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| Fantasy, Science Fiction, Utopias, and Dystopias | |
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| What is Fantasy | |
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| Conventions of Fantasy | |
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| Fears of Fantasy | |
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| Seven Significant Writers of Fantasy | |
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| Other Kinds of Fantasy | |
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| Animal Fantasies | |
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| Fantasy and the Mabinogion | |
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| King Arthur and Other Myths in Fantasy | |
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| Fantasy on Other Worlds: Here There Be Dragons | |
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| What Is Science Fiction? | |
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| Types of Science Fiction | |
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| Keeping Up-to-Date on 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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| Trade Books for History Study | |
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| Historical Fact and Fiction | |
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| Outstanding Writers of Historical Fiction | |
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| Books About War | |
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| Literature of the Holocaust | |
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| Japanese Internment Camps in World War II | |
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| Personal Experiences | |
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| More Upbeat Personal Experiences | |
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| Biographies | |
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| Collective Biographies | |
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| Debunking Versus Fawning Biographies | |
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| Autobiographies | |
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| Connections Between History and Biography | |
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| Nonfiction: Information, Poetry, and Drama | |
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| Information Books | |
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| Narrative or Storytelling in Nonfiction | |
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| New Journalism | |
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| Evaluation of Nonfiction | |
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| Contemporary Influences on the Publishing of Informational Books | |
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| Need for Scientific Literacy | |
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| Books to Support and Extend the School Curriculum | |
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| Nonfiction to Help Teenagers Learn Who They Are and Where They Fit | |
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| Authors of Nonfiction for Young Adults | |
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| Russel Freedman | |
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| James Cross Giblin | |
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| James (Jim) Haskins | |
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| Albert Marrin | |
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| Milton Meltzer | |
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| Laurence Pringle | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Reading Drama in English Class | |
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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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| Writing About Books | |
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| Keeping a Record of Your Reading | |
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| Writing Annotations | |
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| Writing Reviews | |
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| Writing Scholarly and Pedagogical Articles | |
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| Deciding on the Literacy Canon | |
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| Teaching Ethnic Literature | |
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| Using Young Adult Literature in the Library | |
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| Matching Books With Readers | |
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| Discussion Listservs | |
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| World Wide Web Sites | |
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| Booktalks | |
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| Displays | |
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| Programs | |
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| Magazines | |
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| Using Young Adult Books in the Reading Classroom | |
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| Guided Reading Classes | |
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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, Novels, Creative Writing, 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 Brief History of 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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| Who are the Censors? | |
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| What Do the Censors Censor? | |
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| Why Do Censors Censor What They Do? | |
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| Some Court Decisions Worth Knowing | |
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| Court Decisions About Obscenity and Attempting to Define Obscenity | |
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| Court Decisions About Teaching and School Libraries | |
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| Extralegal Decisions | |
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| What to Do Before and After the Censors Arrive | |
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| Before the Censors Arrive | |
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| After the Censors Arrive | |
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| Glossary of Literary Terms Illustrated by YA Literature | |
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| Book Selection Guides | |
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| Some Outstanding Books and Articles About Young Literature | |
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| A Brief Bibliography on Films Generally and on Transformations of Print into Film | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| Critics and Commentators Index | |
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| Author and Title Index | |