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Title Young adult literature : background and criticism / compiled by Millicent Lenz and Ramona M. Mahood
Published Chicago : American Library Association, 1980

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Description viii, 516 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Part I: Toward self-worth and competence through adolescent literature -- Part 2: The search for self-transcendence and the chimera of certainty -- Part 3: The family circle, the life cycle, and the human condition -- Part 4: Male and female: sexuality -- Part 5: Free to be: liberation from stereotypes -- Part 6: Living in a multicultural world -- Part 7: Media in the global village -- Part 8: Confession, celebration, illumination: poetry power -- Part 9: Alternate worlds and a multiplicity of futures -- Part 10: Unshackling the mind -- Part 11: Turning teens on to books
Analysis Young adult literature History and criticism
Young adults Books and reading
Bibliography Includes bibliographies
Subject Children's literature -- History and criticism.
Young adult literature -- History and criticism.
Young adults -- Books and reading.
Youth -- Books and reading.
Author Lenz, Millicent.
Mahood, Ramona.
LC no. 80023489
ISBN 0838903029