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

Lists and annotates new books for children arranged according to the following categories: picture books; stories for younger, intermediate, and older readers; poetry; and nonfiction. (AEA)

Discusses three novels that have revived the author's interest in contemporary fiction. (HOD)

Examination of the characters of school administrators in British and American literature, supplemented by some biographical works, leads to the conclusion that school administrators are portrayed as villainous ogres, incompetent clods, or kindly altruists in the bulk of the earlier works, and are largely absent from the modern novel. (SK)

An author of children's literature argues for the need for more heroes in works for young people. (FL)

Annotates several adult books of interest to high school readers. (FL)

Responds to the challenge of textbook censors that content is critical to the process of value formation by presenting other determinants: the theme of the text, the values of the reader as related to that theme, and the teaching strategies implemented. (AEA)

Relates author's experiences as a story teller from early childhood to the present, describing the art of storytelling and citing excerpts from fairy tales and folktales. (EJS)

Presents results of 1982 reading interest survey which polled 7,933 teenagers between the ages of 11 and 20. Conducted by the San Francisco Bay Area Young Adult Librarians (BAYA), the survey involved 13 participating public libraries. The top ten favorites in the categories of subjects, titles, and authors are noted. (EJS)

Reviews trends revealed in children's books that have a school setting. (HOD)

Briefly describes and compares 15 historical novels about the American West suggested as teaching aids to promote student interest and understanding of units on mountain men, emmigrants and settlers, cowboys and ranchers, Indian-White relations, gunfighters, the demise of the frontier, and the image of the West. (WL)

Argues that the humorous books that teenagers choose to read are appropriate in relation to their interests, maturity, and experience. (AEA)

Describes a heuristic for writing about literature, especially drama and fiction. Questions from the heuristic cover character, plot, setting, and literary devices. (HTH)

Offers a defense of teaching science fiction as an elective in the high-school English curriculum. (RL)

Discusses stories that show the actual processes and satisfactions of writing that can serve as models to promote children's writing interest and skills. (HTH)