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| Recommended Lists | |
| Booklists from the Young Adult Library Service Association | Includes lists of the winning titles in the following categories: Alex Awards, Best Books for Young Adults, Margaret A. Edwards Award, Outstanding Books for the College Bound, Popular Paperbacks, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, Selected Audio Books and Selected Videos and DVD's. |
| The Michael L. Printz Award | An award for a book that "exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature." |
| The Newbery Medal | This award is given for the best book each year for children, but their definition of children is those up to and including fourteen years old, so these books may be suitable for middle school students. |
| YALSA-BK | ALA's Young Adult Library Services Association offers this open internet mailing list to individuals interested in discussing young adult literature. "Subscribers are invited to discuss specific titles, as well as other issues concerning young adult reading and young adult literature. It is also an opportunity for subscribers to learn what has been nominated for Best Books for Young Adults, Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults and Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and to discuss those books. Cumulative lists of nominations for the lists will be posted by each of the committees. Subscribers will have the same opportunity as observers who attend ALA conferences and meetings to voice their opinions about nominated books. From time to time nominations for other YALSA lists may also be posted. Young adults are especially welcome to subscribe and to discuss books they are reading, especially those who belong to book discussion groups." |
| Biographical Information about Young Adult Poets and Authors | |
| Discovering Authors | A comprehensive guide to bio-bibliographical information as well as criticism, this resource represents scores of nations, cultures, time periods, and genres, including entries on such authors as Muhammad, Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, and Amy Tan. Authors included in this product are some of the most-studied novelists, poets, dramatists, with special emphasis on multicultural and popular and genre fiction. |
| Biography Resource Center | Combines over 280,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, Writers Directory; and many more, with full-text articles from more than 250 periodicals including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, U.S. News & World Report. |
| Biography and Genealogy Master Index | For hard-to-find authors. Does not include full text, but refers you to appropriate print resources. |
| Finding Lesson Plans | |
| AskERIC's Online Lesson Plan Database | Allows you to browse by subject or search by keyword. It also provides an excellent guide to developing a lesson plan on your own. And once you come up with your own wonderful lesson plans, you can submit them to the database to share with others! |
| Feeling lucky? Another good way to search for lesson plans is to put your topic and the phrase "lesson plan" into the Google search engine. Remember to use quotes around all phrases. FYI: There are FABULOUS lesson plans for Harry Potter out there. | |
| Censorship |
| Your school library should have a copy of the Schoolboard's Policy Manual. Check this and talk to your school librarian about how to handle challenges to books you wish to teach. Below is some further information about dealing with challenges. |
| Questions or Challenges on Books and Materials |
| Materials Review Committee |
| Citizens Request for Reconsideration of Instructional Materials |
| Censorship in the Schools |
| Banned Books Online |
| Articles From Lexis-Nexis |
| Research Databases for Literary Criticism and Research on Language Arts Teaching |
| Humanities Abstracts Full Text |
| Education Abstracts Full Text |
| ERIC |
| Gale Literary Index |
| General Databases |
| Selected Reference Sources | |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography Ref PN 451.D5 | See volume 52: American Writers for Children Since 1960: Fiction |
| Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts Ref LB 1576 .H234 1991 | Summaries of research findings on language arts teaching methods, arranged by subject. |
| Children's Literature Review Ref PN 1009 .A1 C5139 | This multivolume set consists of excerpts from reviews, criticism, and commentary on books for children and young people. |
| The Young Reader's Companion Ref PN 1008.5 .C373 1993 | An encyclopedia of literature and literary terms designed for students from 5th through 12th grade. |
| Dictionary of Reading and Related Terms Ref LB 1049.98 D53 |
A guide to the technical terminology of reading education. |
| Other Reference Books on Young Adult Literature | An ALCUIN search. |
| Language Arts Journals | |
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| Language Arts Videos at James B. Duke Library | |
| Reading and Young Children Media Coll : LB 1140.5 .R4 R395 1991 | This introductory training tape shows practical techniques for reading aloud, choral reading, using big books and storytelling. Also suggests methods of and resources for selecting children's books. |
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