Adolescence : defining moments ; The young adult reader ; Trends and issues in young adult literature ; Realistic fiction (reading skill : making connections) ; Romance, humor, and sports (reading skill : questioning) ; Historical fiction (reading skills : monitoring and clarifying) ; Mysteries, thrillers, and horror (reading skills : inferential thinking and predicting) ; Science fiction and fantasy (reading skills : visualizing and vocabulary) ; Short stories, poetry, and drama (reading skill : building fluency) ; Nonfiction, autobiographies, biographies, diaries, and memoirs (reading skills : text structure and summarizing) ; The classical canon and young adult literature (reading skill : synthesizing) ; The popular culture influence / by Faith H. Wallace
YA literature and writing : motivating young writers in the real world / by James Blasingame.