Literature for Young Adults: Books (and More) for Contemporary Readers

This comprehensive book will introduce readers to the exciting and evolving field of literature for young adults. It explores a great variety of works, genres, and formats, but it places special emphasis on contemporary works whose nontraditional themes, protagonists, and literary conventions make them particularly well suited to young adult readers. The book looks at ways in which contemporary readers access and share the literature they re reading, and it will help teachers, librarians, and future teachers encourage adolescent readers to choose, appreciate, understand, and discuss today s literature in all its forms.

Young adults are actively looking for anything that connects them with the changes happening in their lives, and the books discussed throughout Literature for Young Adults have the potential to make that connection and motivate them to read.