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Using literature to help troubled teenagers cope with identity issues

Author: Jeffrey S Kaplan
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Series: '">Greenwood Press "Using literature to help troubled teenagers" series.
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"The search for one's identity is an ancient quest reflected throughout history in myths and stories where human glory and conquest are often layered with great pain and self doubt. Today, this quest is found prevalently in young adult novels, where characters wrestle with modern dilemmas in order to find themselves. This reference resource provides teachers, media specialists, parents, and other adults with a link  Read more...
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Using literature to help troubled teenagers cope with identity issues.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999
(OCoLC)607364626
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jeffrey S Kaplan
ISBN: 0313305323 9780313305320
OCLC Number: 40964846
Description: xxv, 216 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Identity within the family : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's The year of the gopher / L.T. Stover, J.R. Hopkins --
Identity through body image : Chris Crutcher's Staying fat for Sarah Byrnes / P.L. Daniel, V.J. McEntire --
Sexual identity : M.E. Kerr's Deliver us from Evie / R.G. Drapkin, L.B. Alvine --
Identity through intimacy : Jenny Davis' Sex education / M. Hardenbrook et al. --
Identity through self-awareness : Kathryn Lasky's Memoirs of a bookbat / P. Crawford, R. Upchurch --
Identity within the father-son relationship : Robert Newton Peck's A day no pigs would die / C.R. Duke, J.L. Winek --
Identity within societal expectations : S.E. Hinton's The outsiders / M.E. Little, M.A. Meyers --
Identity confusion : Zibby O'Neal's The language of goldfish / M.F. Nash, D. Daniel --
Identity through the realization of prejudice : Carolyn Meyer's Drummers of Jericho / T. Gartside, K. Sternberg --
Identity from destruction : Robert Cormier's Tunes for bears to dance to / J.E. Kaufman, L. Kaufman --
Identity through peers : Paul Zindel's Harry and Hortense at Hormone High / M.L. Angelotti, T. Pace.
Series Title: Greenwood Press "Using literature to help troubled teenagers" series.
Responsibility: edited by Jeffrey S. Kaplan.

Abstract:

"The search for one's identity is an ancient quest reflected throughout history in myths and stories where human glory and conquest are often layered with great pain and self doubt. Today, this quest is found prevalently in young adult novels, where characters wrestle with modern dilemmas in order to find themselves. This reference resource provides teachers, media specialists, parents, and other adults with a link to these young adult novels and suggests how to use them effectively."--Jacket.

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