Educators and therapists are paired in this unique exploration of using young adult literature to help adolescents cope with identity issues.
Introduction Prologue by Joan Bauer Identity within the Family: Phyllis Reynold Naylor's The Year of the Gopher by Lois Stover and J. Roy Hopkins Identity through Body Image: Chris Crutcher's Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Patricia L. Daniel and Vicki J. McEntire Sexual Identity: M. E. Kerr's Deliver Us From Evie by Rita G. Drapkin and Lynn Alvine Identity through Intimacy: Jenny Davis' Sex Education by Marie Hardenbrook, et al. Identity through Self-Awareness: Kathryn Lasky's Memoirs of a Bookbat by Patricia Crawford and Rosaria Upchurch Identity within the Father-Son Relationship: Robert Newton Peck's A Day No Pigs Would Die by Charles R. Duke and Jon L. Winek Identity within Societal Expectations: S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders by Mary E. Little and Mary Alice Meyers Identity Confusion: Zibby O'Neal's The Language of Goldfish by Marcia F. Nash and David Daniel Identity through the Realization of Prejudice: Carolyn Meyer's Drummers of Jericho by Tania Gartside and Kristen Sternberg Identity from Destruction: Robert Cormier's Tunes for Bears to Dance to by Janet E. Kaufman and Lynn Kaufman Identity through Peers: Paul Zindel's Harry and Hortense at Hormone High by Michael L. Angelotti and Terry Pace
JEFFREY S. KAPLAN is Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations at the University of Central Florida and Area Education Coordinator for the UCF Daytona Beach Campus./e He is the recipient of the State of Florida Teaching Incentive Program award (1996-1997) and has contributed to three textbooks.
"The search for one's healthy identity is an ancient quest
reflected throughout history in myths and stories where human glory
and conquest are often layered with great pain and self doubt.
Today, this quest is found pravelently in young adult novels, where
characters wrestle with modern dilemmas in order to find
themselves. This reference resource provides a link for teachers,
media specialists, parents and other adults to those novels and how
to use them effectively. . . . This innovative aproach is meant to
provide the opportunity for adults and adolescents to better
understand each other." - Adolescence
"Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers series, provides a
bibliotherapeutic focus for educators working with teens who are
coping with grief and loss. . . . The book provides a wealth of
information for educators hoping to provide guidance to troubled
teens. . . . Large public libraries with extensive parent or
teacher collections and school librarians would benefit form the
purchase of this book." - VOYA
"The literary analyses included are interesting and even
entertaining." - VOYA
"[W]ill be popular with teachers, library media specialists and
public librarians. . . . Recommended as excellent background
reading for persons entering the field who want to try to
understand the teenage animal." - Reference for Students --
GaleGroup.com Reviews
"This book will be useful to teachers who are interested in making
assigned books more relevant to issues faced by today's students,
and to librarians for young adult collection development." - The
Book Report
"In this interesting, well-written collection of articles,
professionals in physical and mental health education suggest ways
of helping adolescents cope with disability by means of literature.
. . . this book is an excellent professional reference, with a
no-nonsense approach that maps out concrete methods." - Readings:A
Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health
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