Adolescents At Risk: A Guide to Fiction and Nonfiction for Young Adults, Parents, and Professionals

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This is the first annotated guide to recent young adult literature that is organized into specific problem areas: alienation and identity, disabilities, homosexuality, divorced and single parents, adopted and foster families, abuse, eating disorders (anorexia nervosa and bulimia), alcohol and drugs, poverty, dropouts and delinquency, teenage pregnancy, AIDS, death and dying, and stress and suicide. More than 900 recommended books published through 1993 have been annotated. Reading levels of recommended books are grades 5-8 and interest level is through grade 12. This work addresses bibliotherapy, but is not based on it. Instead, it is built on the premise that literacy is the key to growth and understanding. Each chapter deals with a specific adolescent problem area and begins with general comments about the problem, startling information and current statistics about its gravity and pervasiveness, warning signs to look for, and suggestions of what to do and where to go for help. Each entry contains complete bibliographic information. The format and readable annotations will make it easy for young adults, parents, librarians, teachers, clergy, psychologists, counselors, social workers, and health professionals to find appropriate fiction and nonfiction books and articles on the serious problems that adolescents face today.

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This annotated bibliography focuses on books to use as bibliotherapy with at-risk teens. has gathered fiction and nonfiction titles, most written at middle- or junior-high school reading level. A great majority of them are from the 1980s and 1990s, but a few such as Catcher in the Rye, are classics. Middle- and high-school teachers and librarians using bibliotherapy with their students will find this title valuable. The currency of titles is a big pluse for use in collection development. * Reference Books Bulletin *

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JOAN F. KAYWELL is Assistant Professor of English Education at the University of South Florida, where she specializes in literature for young adults and middle and secondary teaching methods in English education. She is the author of the book Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics (1993), and many articles on teaching language arts and using adult literature in the classroom.