Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-253) and index.
Abuse, sexual violence, and healing -- Accepting difference -- Accidents and adjustments -- Addressing addiction -- Animals and the environment -- Beauty's meaning -- Breaking silence, speaking out -- Crime, suicide, and their aftermath -- Dating's challenges -- Disease and disability -- Emotional problems confronted -- Families, traditional and redefined -- Friends forever? -- Guilty or innocent? -- Heroism : what does it mean to be a hero? / by Mary Tasillo -- History is about young adults, too -- Imagined futures -- Imagined places -- Insiders and outsiders -- Jobs : assuming adult responsibility -- Old tales retold : fairy tales, legends, myths -- Older people's impact on our lives -- Parents' absence, parents' presence -- Poverty's challenges -- Pregnancy, parenthood, abortion -- Religion and spiritual life -- School days -- Sexual identity, sexual desire -- Supernatural and alien beings : confronting the other -- Survival -- Teammates -- War's impact.
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Thematic guide to young adult literature.
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Teenagers-- Books and reading-- United States.
Teenagers in literature, Bibliography.
Young adult fiction, American-- History and criticism.