Great Books for High School Kids: A Teachers' Guide to Books That Can Change Teens' Lives
By (Author) Rick Ayers
Edited by Amy Crawford
Beacon Press
Beacon Press
15th May 2004
United States
General
Non Fiction
028.535
Paperback
260
Width 152mm, Height 228mm, Spine 14mm
349g
This is an against-the-grain, annotated guide to hundreds of great books for teenagers, assembled by teachers passionate about the reading life. Comprehensively indexed and cross-referenced, the book has several hundred main entries and dozens of indexes. The recommendations are playful and irreverent, ambitious and entertaining. From classics to the unexpected, from literary novels to non-fiction, these are books that teenage readers will love.
Rick Ayers and Amy Crawford both teach English at Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California.