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By: Carol M. Butzow

ISBN: 9781594690044
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By means of 30 children's picture bookswith stories set in times ranging from the early settlement of American until todaythis book explores the characteristics of American heroes and the ways in which they have influenced our history, our way of life, and the principles upon which our culture has developed.


(Paperback)

Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Summaries of all Cleary's novels (including the popular Henry and Ramona books) are accompanied by a description of the author's real-life experiences as reflected in her books and a variety of extension activities (e.g., writing, word games, map activities, dramatic plays, puzzles).


(Paperback)

By: Professor Karen Coats

ISBN: 9781472575531
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Professor Karen Coats

ISBN: 9781472575548
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Bernice E. Cullinan

ISBN: 9780826417107
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A collaborative effort by 200 authorities who contribute some 650 original, signed entries. This book includes 75 topical articles. These often include up-and-coming figures that are not covered in their own entry. It features an appendix listing major-award winners as well as an index of names cross-referenced to entries where applicable.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Roni Natov

ISBN: 9781474221221
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Professor Roni Natov

ISBN: 9781350111752
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Peter Baker

ISBN: 9781498574402
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This edited volume, working within the specific frame of the affective turn in the study of contemporary sociocultural settings across Latin America, compiles a series of essays on children's presence in selected Latin American literary and cinematic expressions.


(Hardback)

By: Meena Khorana

ISBN: 9780313254895
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume examines literature for young people concerning the Indian subcontinent and associated areas: Bangladesh; the Himalayan kingdoms of Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim and Tibet; India; Pakistan; and Sri Lanka. It presents the perspective of native and non-native, mainly Western, authors.


(Hardback)

By: Desmond Taylor

ISBN: 9780313291944
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This bibliography provides a comprehensive record of the juvenile novels of World War II.

Included are annotated entries for more than 400 novels.


(Paperback)

By: Anthony D. Fredericks

ISBN: 9781563085383
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book provides a single-source guide to selected reading and extension activities for grade levels K-6. Each activity sheet includes a summary of a book, discussion questions, and a list of engaging learning projects for adults and children. The activities are designed to increase discussion, build reading skills, and develop comprehension.


(Hardback, 3rd Revised edition)

By: John T. Gillespie

ISBN: 9781591583134
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A source for background and booktalk material on award-winning and honorable mention children's and young adult literature. This work contains detailed plot summaries, lists of characters and themes, background information on the authors, incidents for booktalking, related reads, and fresh ideas for how to introduce these books to young readers.


(Hardback)

By: John H. Saunders

ISBN: 9781498543293
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book offers case studies analyzing a full array of genres in childrens literature, from picture books to young adult novels. This volumes contributions interrogate how childrens literature is a powerful yet under examined space of rhetorical discourse that influences one of the most impressionable segments of our population.


(Paperback)

By: John H. Saunders

ISBN: 9781498543316
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book offers case studies analyzing a full array of genres in childrens literature, from picture books to young adult novels. This volumes contributions interrogate how childrens literature is a powerful yet under examined space of rhetorical discourse that influences one of the most impressionable segments of our population.


(Hardback)

By: Stephen M. Zimmerly

ISBN: 9781498586795
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Young adult literature uses literary sidekicks in new and exciting ways, which changes how sidekicks are understood. Three ways authors elevate sidekicks include letting sidekicks evolve over the course of multiple texts, using parallel novels to add complexity to a sidekicks characterization, and telling a story from the sidekicks perspective.


(Hardback)

By: Frances Povsic

ISBN: 9780313251757
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A guide to children's and adolescent fiction, traditional literature, and biography dealing with the nationalities of the Soviet Union, this work annotates 536 books written in or translated into English and published from 1900 to 1990 portraying the lives of Soviet peoples around the world.


(Hardback)

By: Alice L. Trupe

ISBN: 9780313332340
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Focusing primarily on fiction, this guide provides an overview of the young adult literature. It includes 32 chapters on particular themes of significance to young adults, including Abuse, Sexual Violence, and Healing; Families, Traditional and Redefined; Imagined Futures; Supernatural and Alien Beings: Confronting the Other; and War's Impact.


(Hardback)

By: Joni Richards Bodart

ISBN: 9781442230811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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As a follow up to They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill, which examined supernatural monsters in YA fiction, in this book Bodart looks at human monsters in "real-life" fiction, including sexual predators, bullies, manipulators, torturers, and any who find glee and satisfac...


(Hardback)

By: Agnes Regan Perkins

ISBN: 9780313287428
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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How do you select the best recent works of fiction, oral tradition, and poetry about African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, and Native-American Indian experiences and traditions from the profusion of titles being published today


(Hardback)

By: Christine Seifert

ISBN: 9781442246577
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book looks at how popular young adult literature fetishizes virginity. Christine Seifert examines how and why so much romance and dystopian fictionthe two most popular genres in YA lithave focused on what she calls abstinence porna phenomenon that has broken out since the appearance of Twilight on the market.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Evelyn Arizpe

ISBN: 9781780937588
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Dr Evelyn Arizpe

ISBN: 9781780936376
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Laura Alamillo

ISBN: 9781475834048
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This edited volume offers an interdisciplinary and expansive analysis of Chican@ childrens literature in light of current political, social, and cultural trends.


(Hardback)

By: Laura Alamillo

ISBN: 9781475834031
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This edited volume offers an interdisciplinary and expansive analysis of Chican@ childrens literature in light of current political, social, and cultural trends.

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