Classroom+Library

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Exploring Violence
Franzak, J. and Noll, E. (2006). Monstrous acts: Problematizing violence in young adult literature. //Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy// 49(8), 662-672.

Anderson (1999) //Speak// Block (2000) //The Rose and the Beast: Fairytales Retold// Bloor (1997) //Tangerine// Bone (2002) //The Song of an Innocent Bystander// Carvell (2002) //Who Will Tell My Brother?// Cormier (1998) //Tenderness// Crutcher (2001) //Whale Talk// Draper (1994) //Tears of a Tiger// Fleischman (1999) //Whirligig// Giles (2002) //Shattering Glass// Klass (2002) //Home of the Braves// Konigsburg (2000) //Silent to the Bone// Lester (2001) //When Dad Killed Mom// Myers (1999) //Monsters// Oates (2002) //Big Mouth & Ugly Girl// Soto (1997) //Buried Onions// Strasser (2000) //Give a Boy a Gun// Wolff (2001) //True Believer// Woodson (2003) //Hush//

Social Responsibility
Wolk, S. (2009). Reading for a better world: Teaching for social responsibility with young adult literature. //Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy//, 52(8), 664-673.

Alexie (2007) //The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian// Alvarez (2002) //Before We Were Free// Anderson (2002) //Feed// Bertagna (2008) //Exodus// Chotjewitz (2005) //Daniel Half Human// Cole (1987) //The Goats// Collins (2008) //The Hunger Games// Compestine (2007) //Revolution is not a Dinner Party// Cushman (2006) //The Loud Silence of Francine Green// Doctorow (2008) //Little Brother// DuPrau (2003) //The City of Ember// Engle (2006) //The Poet Slave of Cuba// Fleischman (1998) //Whirligig// Fogelin (2000) //Crossing Jordan// Holtwijk (1995) //Asphalt Angels// Kass (2004) //Real Times// Klass (1994) //California Blue// Klass (2006) //Firestorm: The Caretaker Trilogy Book 1// Krisher (1997) //Spite Fences// Lawrence (2001) //The Lord of the Nutcracker Men// Levithan (2003) //Boy Meets Boy// McCormick (2006) //Sold// Mikaelson (2004//) Tree Girl// Myers (1998) //Fallen Angels// Myers (2008) //Sunrise Over Fallujah// Reeve (2001) //Mortal Engines// Sharenow (2007) //My Mother the Cheerleader// Satrapi (2003//) Persepolis// Soto (1997) //Buried Onions// Stratton (2002) //Chanda's Secret// Tashjian (2001) //The Gospel According to Larry// Trueman (2000) //Stuck in Neutral// Vaughn & Henrichon (2006) //Pride of Baghdad// Volponi (2005) //Black and White// Westerfield (2005) //Uglies// Wolff (1993) //Make Lemonade// Yang (2006) //American Born Chinese//

Understanding (Dis)ability
Kurtts, S.A. & Gavigan K.W. (2008). Understanding (dis)ability through children's literature. //Education Libraries: Children's Resources//, 31(1), 23-31.

Conly (1993) //Crazy Lady// Philbrick(2001) Freak the Mighty Riggio (1997) //Secret Signs// Rylant (1985) //Slower than the Rest// Thompson (1992) //My Brother, Matthew//

Attention Deficit Disorder
Galvin (2001) //Otto Learns About his Medicine// Gantos (1998) Joey Pigza Swallows the Key Parker (1993) Slam Dunk: A Young Boy's Struggle with Attention Deficit Disorder Penn (2003) //A.D.D. not B.A.D.//

Autism
Choldenko (2004) //Al Capone Does My Shirts// Day (2004) //The Flight of a Dove// Haddon (2003) //The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime// Lears (1998) //Ian's Walk: A Story About Autism//

Cerebral Palsy
Mikaelson (2000) //Petey// Slepian (2001) //The Alfred Summer// Trueman (2000) //Stuck in Neutral//

Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Dowell (2001) //Dovey Coe// Lakin (1994) //Dad and Me in the Morning// Litchfield (1976) //A Button in Her Ear// Millman (2000) //Moses Goes to School// Shreve (1993) //The Gift of the Girl Who Couldn't Hear//

Developmental Disabilities
O'Connor (1999) //Me and Rupert Goody// Shriver (2001) //What's Wrong with Timmy?// Shyer (1978) //Welcome Home, Jellybean// Tashjian (1997) //Tru Confessions// Weeks (2004) //So B. It//

Down Syndrome
Carter (1983) //Big Brother Dustin// Dodds (1996) //My Sister Annie// Fleming (1993) //Be Good to Eddie Lee//

Dyslexia
Banks (1995) //Egg-drop Blues// Betancourt (1993) //My Name is Brain Brian// Gehret (1996) //They Don't Give Up Kids and Leaning Differences// Polacco (1998) //Thank You, Mr. Falker//

Epilepsy
Lears (2002) //Becky the Brave// Moss (1989) //Lee, the Rabbit with Epilepsy//

Physical Disabilities
Calvert (1999) //Picking Up the Pieces// McMahon (2000) //Dancing Wheels// Schaefer (2001) //Some Kids Use Wheelchairs// Schaefer (2001) //Some Kids Wear Leg Braces// White (1978) //Janet at School//

Speech Impediments
Gleitzman (1995) //Blabber Mouth// Lester (1999) //Hooway for Wodney Wat//

Visual Impairments
Davis (2000) //Brian's Bird// Fraustino (2001) //The Hickory Chair// Garfield (1994) //Follow My Leader// Karim (1994) //Mandy Sue Day//

Novels in Verse (aka Verse Novels or Novems)
Adoff, Jaime. //Names Will Never Hurt Me//. Anaya, Rudolfo. //Elegy on the Death of Cesar Chavez: A Poem.// Bateson, Catherine. //Dangerous Girl.// Bateson, Catherine. //The Year it All Happened.// Bingham, Kelly. //Shark Girl.// Bingham, Kelly. //Sharp Teeth.// Bryant, Jen. //Pieces of Georgia//. Bryant, Jen. //The Trial//. Carson, Anne. //Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse.// Carvell, Marlene. //Sweetgrass Basket.// Carvell, Marlene. //Who Will Tell My Brother?// Cisneros, Sandra. //The House on Mango Street//. Cofer, Judith Ortiz. //Call Me Maria//. Cormier, Robert. //Frenchtown Summer//. Corrigan, Eireann. //Splintering//. Corrigan, Eireann. //You Remind Me of You: A Poetry Memoir//. Creech, Sharon. //Heartbeat.// Creech, Sharon. //Love That Dog//. Crist-Evans, Craig. //North of Everything.// Fields, Terri. //After the Death of Anna Gonzales//. Frost, Helen. //The Braid//. Frost, Helen. //Keesha’s House//. Frost, Helen. //Spinning Through the Universe//. Fullerton, Alma. //Walking on Glass//. George, Kristine O’Connell. //Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems//. Glenn, Mel. //Back to Class.// Glenn, Mel. //Class Dismissed!: High School Poems.// Glenn, Mel. //Class Dismissed Two: More High School Poems.// Glenn, Mel. //Foreign Exchange: A Mystery in Poems//. Glenn, Mel. //Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems//. Glenn, Mel. //My Friend’s Got This Problem, Mr. Candler.// Glenn, Mel. //One Order to Go.// Glenn, Mel. //Play-by-Play.// Glenn, Mel. //Split Image: A Story in Poems//. Glenn, Mel. //Squeeze Play.// Glenn, Mel. //The Taking of Room 114: A Hostage Drama in Poems//. Glenn, Mel. //Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? A Mystery in Poems//. Grimes, Nikki. //Bronx Masquerade//. Grimes, Nikki. //Dark Sons.// Grimes, Nikki. //Jazmin’s Notebook.// Grimes, Nikki. //My Man Blue.// (picture book) Grimes, Nikki. //What is Goodbye?// Grover, Lori Ann. //Hold Me Tight//. Grover, Lori Ann. //Loose Threads//. Grover, Lori Ann. //On Pointe: a novel.// Hathorn, Libby. //Volcano Boy: a novel in verse.// Hemphill, Stephanie. //Things Left Unsaid: A Novel in Poems//. Herrera, Juan Felipe. //CrashBoomLove: A Novel in Verse//. Herrera, Juan Felipe. //Downtown Boy.// Herrick, Steven. //Do-Wrong Ron.// Herrick, Steven. //By the River.// Herrick, Steven. //Love, Ghosts, & Facial Hair//. Herrick, Steven. //Naked Bunyip Dancing.// Herrick, Steven. //A Place Like This//. Herrick, Steven. //The Simple Gift//. Herrick, Steven. //The Spangled Drongo.// Herrick, Steven. //Tom Jones Saves the World.// Hesse, Karen. //Aleutian Sparrow//. Hesse, Karen. //Out of the Dust//. Hesse, Karen. //A Time of Angels//. *Hesse, Karen. //Witness//. High, Linda Oatman. //Sister Slam and the Poetic Motormouth Road Trip//. Hopkins, Lee Bennett. //Been To Yesterday: Poems of a Life//. Hopkins, Ellen. //Crank//. Janeczko, Paul B. //Stardust Otel.// Janeczko, Paul B. //Worlds Afire//. Jeffs, Sandy. //Poems from the Madhouse.// Johnson, Angela. //Running Back to Ludie.// Johnson, Lindsay Lee. //Soul Moon Soup//. Koertge, Ron. //The Brimstone Journals//. Koertge, Ron. //Shakespeare Bats Cleanup//. Korman, Gordon. //Son of the Mob.// Levithan, David. //The Realm of Possibility//. Lowery, Linda. //Laurie Tells.// Major, Kevin. //Ann and Seamus//. McCormick, Patricia. //Sold//. Merrell, Billy. //Talking in the Dark//. Montgomery, Hugh. //The Voyage of the Arctic Tern.// Myers, Walter Dean. //Angel to Angel: A Mother’s Gift of Love.// Myers, Walter Dean. //Blues Journey.// Myers, Walter Dean. //Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse.// (picture book) *Myers, Walter Dean. //Harlem: A Poem.// Myers, Walter Dean. //Street Love.// Nelson, Marilyn. //Carver: A Life in Poems.// Nelson, Marilyn. //A Wreath for Emmitt Till.// Rocklin, Joanne. //For Your Eyes Only!// Rosenberg, Liz. //17: A Novel in Prose Poems//. Rowe, Leanne. //Girl X Recreated.// Rylant, Cynthia. //God Went to Beauty School.// Rylant, Cynthia. //Soda Jerk.// (picture book) Sandell, Lisa Ann. //Song of the Sparrow//. Seabrooke, Brenda. //Judy Scuppernong.// Seabrooke, Brenda. //Under the Pear Tree.// Smith, Hope Anita. //The Way a Door Closes.// Sones, Sonya. //One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies//. Sones, Sonya. //Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy//. Sones, Sonya. //What My Mother Doesn’t Know: A Story of Love and Confusion//. Soto, Gary. //Fearless Fernie: Hanging Out with Fernie and Me.// Soto, Gary. //Worlds Apart: Traveling with Fernie and Me.// Stevens, Roger. //The Journal of Danny Chaucer (Poet).// Stone, Tanya Lee. //A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl//. Taylor, Michelle A. //The Angel of Barbican High.// Testa, Maria. //Almost Forever//. Testa, Maria. //Becoming Joe DiMaggio.// Testa, Maria. //Something About America.// Turner, Ann. //Learning To Swim: A Memoir.// Turner, Ann. //A Lion’s Hunger: Poems of First Love.// Wayland, April Halprin. //Girl Coming in for a Landing: A Novel in Poems//. Wild, Margaret. //One Night.// Wild, Margaret. //Jinx.// Williams, Julie. //Escaping Tornado Season: A Story in Poems.// Williams, Vera B. //Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart//. Wittlinger, Ellen. //Hard Love//. Wolf, Allan. //Zane’s Trace.// Wolf, Allan. //New Found Land: Lewis and Clark’s Voyage of Discovery//. Wolff, Virginia Euwer. //Make Lemonade//. Wolff, Virginia Euwer. //True Believer//. Wong, Janet S. //Behind the Wheel: Driving Poems.// Woodson, Jacqueline. //Locomotion//.

=YA Lit Resources and Experts =

American Library Association
Click here to visit the [|American Library Association] website where you can find out about [|Banned Books Week] (Sept. 25-Oct. 2)

YALSA
The [|Young Adult Library Services Assocation] also has a website where you can find out about [|Teen Read Week] (Oct. 17-23) and find [|lists of award-winning books] in a variety of categories. YALSA has a [|great group blog] and you can also [|follow them on Twitter]

Teen Reads
[|Teen Reads] is "THE place online for teens to talk about their fave books -- and find the hippest new titles!"

Guys Read
A "web-based literacy program for boys," [|Guys Read] is the brain-child of [|Jon Scieszka], author of //The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs// and recent [|National Ambassador for Young People's Literature]

Teri Lesesne
The "goddess of Young Adult Literature," Teri Lesesne writes about the YALit she reads on [|her blog]  She is the author of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Making the Match] [|Naked Reading] (read the introduction for an explanation of the title) and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Reading Ladders] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> She also shares <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|her presentations on Slideshare] and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|her instant impressions on Twitter]