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Author:

Warner, Mary L.

Title:

Adolescents in the search for meaning : tapping the powerful resource of story / Mary L. Warner.

Publisher:

Scarecrow Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xxvi, 309 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Teenagers--Books and reading--United States.
Young adult literature--Bibliography.
Young adult fiction--Bibliography.
Social problems--Bibliography.--Bibliography.
Teenagers in literature.
Adolescence--Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-288) and indexes.

Contents:

Listening to their voices : young adults sharing their perspectives -- Listening to their voices : young adults sharing reading choices -- Young adult authors describe their commitment to adolescents -- Books about real life experiences--making life choices, facing violence or abuse, living through family and relationship issues -- Books about facing death and loss -- Books about identity, discrimination, struggles with decisions -- Books about courage and survival -- Books about allegory, fantasy, myth, parable.

ISBN:

9780810854307 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0810854309 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005023572

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

IAOX771 -- State Library of Iowa (Des Moines)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)