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Thematic guide to young adult literature
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Thematic guide to young adult literature

Author: Alice Trupe
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Alice Trupe
ISBN: 0313332347 9780313332340
OCLC Number: 64594254
Description: viii, 259 p. ; 26 cm.
Contents: Abuse, sexual violence, and healing -- Accepting difference -- Accidents and adjustments -- Addressing addiction -- Animals and the environment -- Beauty's meaning -- Breaking silence, speaking out -- Crime, suicide, and their aftermath -- Dating's challenges -- Disease and disability -- Emotional problems confronted -- Families, traditional and redefined -- Friends forever? -- Guilty or innocent? -- Heroism : what does it mean to be a hero? / by Mary Tasillo -- History is about young adults, too -- Imagined futures -- Imagined places -- Insiders and outsiders -- Jobs : assuming adult responsibility -- Old tales retold : fairy tales, legends, myths -- Older people's impact on our lives -- Parents' absence, parents' presence -- Poverty's challenges -- Pregnancy, parenthood, abortion -- Religion and spiritual life -- School days -- Sexual identity, sexual desire -- Supernatural and alien beings : confronting the other -- Survival -- Teammates -- War's impact.
Responsibility: Alice Trupe.
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