Reexamines Scott O'Dell's novel based on the "Long Walk" of the Navajo Indians from their home territory to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, after they had been evicted by the United States Army in 1863. (FL)

Speaker thanks the Newbery Committee for bestowing upon her the 1986 Newbery Medal for her book "Sarah, Plain and Tall" and explains the background for the novel. (DF)

Annotates recommended novels dealing with World War II. (RBW)

Recommends Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel, which first appeared in l923. (FL)

Reviews of adult literature that might appeal to adolescent and young adult readers. Includes two novels and two collections of short stories. (RBW)

Discusses two recent Canadian young adult novels--"Salmonberry Wine" (M. Razzell) and "Shadow in Hawthorn Bay" (J. Lunn). (NKA)

Reviews the reissue of Marjorie Kellog's 1968 novel and describes how the characters, each different in their own way, can still reach out to readers. (CRH)

Indicates that it is the job of the novelist to shape human experience so that readers find not only order but also meaning in the novel and describes three experiences that influenced her writing. (AEA)

Reviews eight new adult books of interest to high school readers. The books reviewed include two novels, an anthology of selections about cats, an autobiography by a physicist, and books about Patricia Hearst, the abdication of King Edward VIII of England, naive painting, and American astronauts. (GT)

Recommends new and reprinted paperbacks in different categories--younger readers, poetry, intermediate readers, and picture books. (CRH)

Reviews the works of children's author M. B. Goffstein. Discusses her use of the theme of friendship. (FL)

Reviews five new adult books of interest to high school readers. The books include a novel, an autobiography, and books about the forest, the tracing of lost pets, and medical folklore. (GT)

Reviews eight new adult books of interest to high school readers. The books include biographies, works of fiction, and books about dragons, Cubism and Futurism in art, and designing, knitting, and crocheting clothes. (GT)

Refutes the myth that young adults won't read about protagonists younger than themselves. Describes novels from which adolescents can benefit that contain candid treatment of the loss of innocence, the search for home, and the complexities of independence, love, and self-knowledge. (EL)

Discusses juvenile family novels, such as Betty Waterton's "Quincy Rumpel," Sue Ann Alderson's "The Not Impossible Summer," and Jean Little's "Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird." (EL)