Audiobooks are excellent tools to help students build literacy skills as well as improve listening, writing, and vocabulary competencies. In many shared or independent reading situations, audiobooks offer support to reluctant and struggling readers, special-needs students, and English-language learners. They are also embraced by voracious readers.…

Explains the benefits of encouraging teenagers to read plays and provides an annotated bibliography of plays with young adult main characters. Reasons for their appeal to teenagers include themes involving strong central conflict, the consequences of making choices, and the universal conflict of generational value systems. (EAM)

Annotates six adult books of interest to high school readers. (AEA)

This seventh annual annotated bibliography of trade books reflects the direct choices of approximately 10,000 children from among more than 500 books published in the United States in 1980. (FL)

Notes that teachers may feel intimidated by the sheer number of recommended young adult literature titles. Presents annotations of eight young adult works that have appeared on at least three other lists of recommended books for 1995. (RS)

Describes approximately 60 fiction and about 10 non-fiction young adult literature books and other print media about sports. Notes the importance of sports in American society. (SG)

Reviews recent adult books of interest to high school readers. (AEA)

Reviews recent adult books of interest to high school readers. (MKM)

Reviews seven recent adult books of interest to high school readers. (MKM)

Describes a follow-up study which showed that boys' reading interests have not changed much in ten years. Includes a list of books which junior high school boys find interesting. (MKM)

This annually revised bibliography lists books on subjects of special interest and appeal to teenagers. Selected by the Committee on Books for Young Adults, which is composed of librarians who work with teenagers in the New York Public Library, the approximately 1,250 titles and brief annotations are arranged under the following main headings:…

The first in a series of annual annotated bibliographies of 30 newly published trade books chosen by students in middle, junior, and senior high schools throughout the United States. (SKC)

Reviews series mysteries for children and adolescents in two categories: mysteries for girls ("Nancy Drew,""Doris Fein") and mysteries for boys ("Hardy Boys,""Race against Time"). Characters and plots, appeal of the series, and series books and adolescents are discussed. Eight sources are given. (EJS)

Annotates one nature book, two novels, and one biography written for adults but of interest to young adult readers. (FL)

Intended to serve an instrumental purpose for middle-grade teachers, this paper presents brief annotations of eight novels of interest to middle grade students and more elaborate comments and teaching activities for two well-known novels. The eight novels are "How to Eat Fried Worms" (Thomas Rockwell); "Number the Stars" (Lois Lowry); "Cousins"…