This is a select list of books on various themes/topics in young adult literature. Books in this list can be checked out for 28 days with an option to renew if no one else has requested the book. Users can check out books at the Check-out Desk in the lobby of the library or use the Self-check out terminals opposite the Check-out Desk.
Awards
Award-winning books for children and young adults: an annual guide
Booktalking the award winners. Children's retrospective volume
Children’s book awards international, 1990-2000
Coretta Scott King award books using great literature with children and young adults
The official YALSA awards guidebook
Book Lists
ARBA in depth: Children's and Young Adult Titles
Booklist’s 1000 best young adult books since 2000
Best books for high school readers, grades 9-12
Best books for middle school and junior high readers: grades 6-9
Best books for middle school and junior high readers: grades 6-9. Supplement to the first edition
Best books for senior high readers
Best books for young adult readers
Best books for young teen readers, grades 7-10
Best new media, K-12: a guide to movies, subscription web sites, and educational software and games
Books in Spanish for children and young adults
Books in Spanish for children and young adults: an annotated guide series II
Culture
Children’s and young adult literature and culture: a mosaic of criticism
Contemporary youth culture: an international encyclopedia
Popular appeal: books and films in contemporary youth culture
What was it like? Teaching history and culture through young adult literature
Young adult literature and culture
Criticism and Theory
Critical foundations in young adult literature:challenging genres
The critical merits of young adult literature: coming of age
Interpreting young adult literature: literary theory in the secondary classroom
Recasting the past: the Middle Ages in young adult literature
Technology ad identity in young adult fiction: the posthuman subject
Young adult literature and the digital world: textual engagement through visual literacy
Young adult literature: exploration, evaluation, and appreciation
Disabilities
The disturbed girl’s dictionary
Remarkable books about young people with special needs
Riding the bus with my sister: a true life journey
Family
Disturbing the universe: power and repression in adolescent literature
Girling up: how to be strong, smart, and spectacular
First darling of the morning; selected memories of an Indian childhood
I am not your perfect Mexican daughter
Using literature to help troubled teenagers cope with family issues
Using literature to help troubled teenagers cope with identity issues
Gender
Beyond gender: transgender teens speak out
Girls literacy experiences in and out of school: learning and composing gendered identities
Lesbian and gay voices: an annotated bibliography and guide to children’s and young adult literature
Declarations of independence: empowered girls in young adult literature, 1990-2001
Queer, there, and everywhere: 23 people who changed the world
Revolutionary voices: a multicultural queer youth anthology
Ways of being male: representing masculinities in children’s literature and film
Health/Mental Health
Devil in the details: scenes from an obsessive girlhood
Mental illness in young adult literature: exploring real struggles through fictional characters
Needles: a memoir of growing up with diabetes
Using literature to help troubled teenagers cope with health issues
Very, very dreadful: the Influenza pandemic of 1918
Holocaust
The boy in the striped pajamas: a fable
Hidden like Anne Frank: fourteen true stories of survival
Hidden teens, hidden lives: primary sources from the holocaust
His name was Raoul Wallenberg: courage, rescue and mystery during World War II
I will plant you a lilac tree: memoir of a Schindler's list survivor
The other half of life: a novel about the true story of the MS. St. Louis
A past without shadow: constructing the past in German books for children
Sparing the child: grief and the unspeakable in youth literature about Nazism and the Holocaust
We will not be silent: the White Rose student resistance movement that defied Adolf Hitler
Multiculturalism/Race
African American voices in young adult literature: tradition, transition, transformation
American Indian themes in young adult literature
Cultural journeys multicultural literature for elementary and middle school students
Diversity in youth literature: opening doors through reading
Immigration narratives in young adult literature: crossing borders
Many peoples, one land: a guide to new multicultural literature for children and young adults
Marching for freedom: walk together, children, and don't you grow weary
Mixed heritage in young adult literature
Multicultural children's literature: a critical issues approach
Multicultural literature for children and young adults reflections on critical issues
Multicultural programs for tweens and teens
Race: a history beyond black and white
Ten is the age of darkness: the Black Bildungsroman
They called themselves the K.K.K.: the birth of an American terrorist group
United in diversity: using multicultural young adult literature in the classroom
Young adult literature from romance to realism
Reading lists
Developing competent readers and writers in the middle grades
Mind-bending mysteries and thrillers for teens: a programming and reader’s advisory guide
Fostering the love of reading: the affective domain in reading education
From comics to classics: a parent’s guide to books for teens and preteens
More outstanding books for the college bound
The teen-centered book club: readers into leaders
Social Issues
The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian
Biography in the lives of youth: culture, society, and information
Here in Harlem: poems in many voices
No choirboy: murder, violence, and teenagers on death row
Schooled bodies: negotiating adolescent validation through press, peers, and parents
Who am I without him? short stories about girls and the boys in their lives
War
D-Day: the greatest invasion - a people's history
Experiencing America's story through fiction: historical novels for grades 7-12.
How dare the sun rise: memoirs of a war child
Melancholia and maturation in the use of trauma in American children's literature
The real revolution: the global story of American independence
Sacrificing childhood: children and the Soviet state in the great patriotic war
Twain, Wolcott, and the birth of the adolescent reform novel
Unencumbered by history: The Vietnam experience in young adult fiction
Unsettled: the problem of loving Israel
Unraveling freedom: the battle for democracy on the home front during World War I
A volcano beneath the snow: John Brown's war against slavery
War and peace: a guide to literature and new media, grades 4-8
War is---: soldiers, survivors, and storytellers talk about war