A library hooks onto junior teens' interest in horror films and expands it to their favorite film personalities, the history of horror film, and film techniques and criticism. (28 references) (Author)

Looks at the concept of reading readiness from the points-of-view of the behaviorist and the humanists. (NH)

The controversy over the effectiveness of various emphases in the teaching of reading--phonetic, look-say, decoding, electic-- is unlikely to end. This article, which analyzes reactions to an important 1967 book, provides a useful summary of the reading debate today. (Author)

To identify reading materials suitable for learning disabled adolescents, teachers should determine areas of student interest, predict the student's reading level, and determine the material's readablity. Then the match between the student and material should be evaluated in terms of reading level, interest, word recognition, and comprehension.…

In this bibliographic essay, the author discusses professional resources on bibliotherapy and useful book selection guides. (SJL)

Presents the 1996 Honor List of eight books of interests to young adults published in 1996 that were chosen as "best books" by three or more other sources. Discusses the books. (SR)

Presents brief annotations of 43 children's books, grouped around the theme of flight: flights of imagination, flights across time and around the globe, flights of adventure, and nature's flight. (SR)

Presents brief descriptions of 18 recent children's books that relate to the theme of New Beginnings, organized into three sections: Following a Dream, Out of Despair Comes Hope, and New Perspectives. (SR)

Notes that well over 1000 books for adolescents are published each year. Discusses seven major lists of "best books" (Best Books for Young Adults, Booklist Editors' Choices, Books for the Teen Age, Bulletin Blue Ribbons, School Library Journal's Best Books of the Year, Quick Picks, and Young Adults' Choices) that provide a good starting point for…

Presents and discusses criteria for selecting multiethnic children's literature. Suggests some points of departure for critical deliberation of Asian literature. Finds the terms and language of socio-political frameworks necessary in facilitating ethical deliberation over the function, value, and purpose of the multiethnic work. (SG)

Considers how in "Post-Something" times, misquotation has become a reading practice, or at least a strategy within certain practices of reading. Suggests that Post-Modernism needs a canon, a continuity of culture, in order to be Post-Anything. Describes how in making his own canon, the author posits certain genre qualities that appeal to…

Discusses the Newbery Medal for children's books and how it has changed since its inception in 1922. Highlights include society's ideas of what children should read and how those opinions change with time and place; and Newbery Medal books as examples of their time. (LRW)

Reviews a few authors (from Louisa May Alcott to Francesca Lia Block) who have had a significant effect on young adult (YA) literature and who are most familiar to the author. Presents a starting point for a discussion or study of the foundations of YA literature. (SG)

Presents recommendations of six excellent works of fiction that fall between short story and novella. Concludes that the short story will continue to be the staple of the one-semester literature course, but for those instructors who would like to add a longer piece or two without committing to a full-scale novel, theses stories are worth…