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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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

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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.

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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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This edited volume offers an interdisciplinary and expansive analysis of Chican@ childrens literature in light of current political, social, and cultural trends.