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From Hinton to Hamlet Building Bridges between Young Adult Literature and the Classics Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
Sarah K. Herz, Donald R. Gallo
ISBN: 0-313-32452-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32452-9
276 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 8/30/2005
List Price: $41.95 (UK Sterling Price: £28.95)
Discount Price: $20.98 Sale Price for U.S. Customers Only. Save 50%. Ends 12/31/2009.
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Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Awards:
  • The Five-Foot Bookshelf of Essential Professional Books VOYA
  • 2005 Editor's Choice Award Professional Reading Library Media Connection
Description: The required classics in grades 7-12 are often too complex and removed from adolescent experience. This informative text uses thematic groupings built around recent young adult literature (YAL) as bridges to the classics. This second edition, which the authors have revised and greatly expanded, emphasizes the goal of helping teenagers become lifetime readers, as well as critical and confident readers. By pairing the required classics and young adult literature around common themes, the authors illustrate specific theme connections and include extensive lists of annotated YAL titles at the end of each classic title. The new edition features more than 1,000 titles, hundreds published in the last five years. Thirty-three recent YAL titles are included as theme connectors among the twelve most frequently taught classics.



Title Features:
New to this second edition:
Thirty-three recent titles are included as theme connectors among the twelve most frequently taught classics.
Thematic units on War: It's Effects and Its Aftermath and The Great Depression, including the Dust Bowl have been expanded. Many new annotated YAL titles added to Archetypes.
A step-by-step approach to writing an Author Paper using YAL
Profiles of five outstanding school and public library programs that exemplify innovative student involvement.
Twelve interdisciplinary categories include lengthy annotated lists of fiction and nonfiction for interdisciplinary approaches.
Internet resources of book reviews, professional journals, authors, organizations, and Web sites devoted to YAL.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    How I Found a Treasure Trove of Readers with Young Adult Literature
    What Is Young Adult Literature Anyway?
    Directing Versus Exploring: How to Get to Where You're Going without a Literary Map
    Building Bridges: Getting Students from Wherever They Are to Where the Curriculum Says They Should Be
    What Else? Other Approaches
    Adolescents and Libraries: Forging a Vital Relationship
    Other Backyards: Using Young Adult Literature across Other Disciplines
    What's Next? Where Can I Find More Information?
    Works Cited
    Index
About the Author: Sarah K. Herz is a former English teacher in Westport, Conn. She conducts staff development and curriculum workshops for school districts and is an article reviewer for English Journal and the ALAN Review.

Donald R. Gallo is a former junior high school English teacher, reading specialist, and university professor who has become the country's foremost anthologist of short stories for young adults. He is the recipient of the ALAN award for Outstanding Contributions to Young Adult Literature as well as the Ted Hipple Service Award.
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