Pathfinder:

Great Resources for Teen Readers

 

General Information:

Created by Patti Rish, Bowling Green Senior High School

Workshop Location: Timberstone Jr. High School, Sylvania

Companion Action Plan: “Great Resources for Teen Readers”

Grade Levels: 9-12

Curriculum Area: Reading, Language Arts

Specific Topic: Young Adult Literature

 

Content Information:

Summary of Pathfinder: Students and teachers can use these resources as tools for selecting high-interest books to read and to find relevant information on the books and authors they’ve chosen once they have read the books.

 

Books:

 

Outstanding books for the college bound : choices for a generation.    Chicago : American Library Association, 1996.  Set of genre-focused lists produced by the Young Adult Library Service Association recommending titles geared to readers ages twelve through eighteen who are planning to continue their education after high school 011.62 O

 

Best books for young adult readers / Stephen Calvert.    New Providence, N.J. : R.R. Bowker, c1997.    Presents information on over 6,500 fiction and non-fiction books for readers age twelve to eighteen published between late 1990 and early 1996, arranged alphabetically within sixty-eight major subject categories. R 011.62 CAL

 

Books for you : an annotated booklist for senior high.    Urbana, IL : The Council, c2001. An annotated bibliography of nearly 1,400 fiction and nonfiction books of interest for high school students organized in forty thematic chapters.

 

Professional Resources:

 

A core collection for young adults / Patrick Jones, Patricia Taylor, Kirsten Edwards. Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2003. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. A guide for librarians that profiles approximately 1,200 fiction, nonfiction, and graphic format books that interest young adults, providing detailed annotations, bibliographic information, audience levels, and review lists, and also includes bibliographic data on CD-ROM

 

Booktalks plus : motivating teens to read/ Lucy Schall.    Englewood, CO : Libraries Unlimited, 2001.   A source book for teachers that profiles one hundred fiction and nonfiction books for teens, providing summaries, "booktalk" paragraphs designed to motivate kids to read the books, related activities, and annotated lists of related works. 028.5 SCH

 

Web Sites  (for students):

 

Reading Rants

 http://tln.lib.mi.us/~amutch/jen/

 

TeenReads

http://www.teenreads.com/

 

Award-winning books

http://www.slco.lib.ut.us/fiction.htm

 

Wired for Books: Author Interviews by Don Swaim

http://www.wiredforbooks.org/swaim/

 

YALSA (American Library Association Young Adult literature division)

http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/

 

State and Local Teen Book Award Lists:

Bowling Green High School FAVOR Award (Our own book award site!)

http://www.bgcs.k12.oh.us/resource/High%20School/RAPbooks.htm

 

Ohio Buckeye Teen Book Award

http://bcbookaward.info/teens/

 

Alaska Battle of the Books: High School

http://www.akla.org/akasl/bb/bbhome.html

 

Arizona Young Readers Award

http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/monte_vista/special_areas/library/libhtm/yabks.htm

 

California Young Reader Medal—Young Adult

http://www.cla-net.org/awards/cyrm.php

 

Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award

http://cal-webs.org/bluespruce/

 

Indiana Eliot Rosewater Book Award

http://www.ilfonline.org/Units/Associations/aime/Programs/Rosie/rosie.htm

 

Iowa Teen Award

http://www.iema-ia.org/itaindex.html

 

Kansas Reading Circle Senior High

http://www.knea.org/parent_tips/giftbooks.htm#senior

 

Kentucky Bluegrass Book Award Grades 9-12

http://kba.nku.edu/lists/winners.html

 

Maryland Black-Eyed Susan High School Award

http://www.annapolishigh.org/~media/html/black.htm

 

Missouri Gateway Book Award

http://maslonline.org/awards/books/Gateway/

 

Nebraska Golden Sower Award

http://www.nol.org/home/NLA/golden/ya-nom/ya-nominees.htm

 

Nevada Young Reader Award—Young Adult

http://www.nevadalibraries.org/Divisions/NYRA/

 

New Jersey Garden State Teen Award

http://www.njla.org/honorsawards/book/teen.html

 

New Mexico Land of Enchantment Young Adult

http://www.loebookaward.com/

 

Oklahoma Sequoyah Young Adult Book Award

http://www.yukon.lib.ok.us/sequoyah.html

 

Pacific Northwest Young Reader’s Choice Award

http://www.pnla.org/yrca/

 

Rhode Island Teen Book Award

http://www.yourlibrary.ws/ya_webpage/ritba/ritba05/ritba05.htm

 

South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominees

http://www.scasl.net/bkawards/yaba.htm

 

Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award Young Adult

http://www.korrnet.org/tasl/vsba.htm

 

Texas Tayshas High School Reading List

http://www.txla.org/groups/yart/tayshaslists.html

 

Utah Beehive Young Adult Book Award

http://www.clau.org/

 

Virginia Young Readers Program High School Nominees

http://www.epl.ca/EPLMaster.cfm?id=YOUNGREADERS0004

 

Washington Evergreen Young Adult Book Award

http://www.kcls.org/evergreen/

 

Wisconsin Battle of the Books Senior Division

http://viking.bwsd.k12.wi.us/battle/libstatebattle.html

 

 

Selected articles from INFOhio Electronic Resources:

(Articles found in EBSCO Professional Search)

 

Record: 1

 

Young Adult Literature. By: Crowe, Chris. English Journal, Jan2001, Vol. 90 Issue 3, p146, 5p; Abstract: Opposes the complaints against young adult literature, that there are not the `classic' and they corrupt the young. Positive qualities of young adult literature; Problems about the qualification of the literature; Information on some famous young adult books. (AN 4052139)

Database:

Professional Development Collection

 

Record: 2

 

Politicizing young adult literature: Reading Anderson's Speak as a critical text. By: Alsup, Janet. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Oct2003, Vol. 47 Issue 2, p158, 9p; Abstract: Discusses the impact of critical literature on the emotional and intellectual growth of young adult. Effect of reading on teens; Importance of critical literature to young adults; Analysis of the young adult novel "Speak," by Laurie Halse Anderson. INSET: A SAMPLING OF "CRITICAL" YA BOOKS. (AN 11455383)

Database:

Professional Development Collection

 

Record: 3

 

Adult books for young adults. By: Carter, Betty. English Journal, Mar97, Vol. 86 Issue 3, p63, 5p; Abstract: Explores the boundary between the young adults (YA) and adult books. Preference of some YA to adult books and vice versa; Lesser differences between YA and adult books in terms of plot and page lengths; Differences in marketing, publicizing and reviewing of adult and young adult literature; Sample adult books for young adults. (AN 9709084037)

Database:

Professional Development Collection

 

Record: 4

 

Reaching Adolescents (Book Review). Education, Fall85, Vol. 106 Issue 1, p66, 1/3p; Reaching Adolescents. The Young Adult Book and the School. Arthea J. S. Reed, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1985. The book is divided into four parts. The first, a rationale, is based on the research of psychologists, learning theorists, educators, and parents. Part Two is a comprehensive examination of young adult literature by theme and genre. It makes no attempt at library criticism, but catalogues and annotates the world of literature for young people. Part Three deals with methodology, discussing techniques for incorporating young adult books into the classroom of the middle and secondary schools. Throughout the five chapters of this part a wide variety of unit plans are provided that incorporate young adult books. The final part of the book gives the teacher, librarian, parent, and university instructor a succinct and complete report of available literature for the young. It discusses ways to build a classroom library. The book is intended for use in university classes. It is appropriate for teachers and for students. The author seeks to provide scholarly information about young adult literature, together with an arsenal of ideas for effective use of such literature. The author is known as "Charlie" and is an associate professor at University of North Carolina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; (AN 4709529)

Database:

Professional Development Collection

 

Record: 5

 

YA mind-stretchers. By: Eaglen, Audrey B.. School Library Journal, Jun89, Vol. 35 Issue 10, p58, 1p; Abstract: Expresses view that several young adult (YA) fiction authors are revitalizing young adult literature by producing contemporary, thought-provoking works that have a profound effect on the young adult reader. These young adult novels allow the readers' `minds to stretch'; Uses recent YA books by Bruce Brooks, Francesca Lia Block, Chris Crutcher and others as examples. (AN 8909110153)

Database:

Professional Development Collection