English 583, Multicultural Literature for Adolescents

Book Review Selection List

Dr. Gwen Athene Tarbox

Pedagogical Concerns

Bushman, John H.  Using Young Adult Literature in the English Classroom.  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 2001.

Carey-Webb, Allen.  Literature and Lives:  A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach to Teaching English.  Urbana, IL:  NCTE, 2001.

Cruz, Gladys, et al., eds.  Beyond the Culture Tours:  Teaching and Learning with Culturally Diverse Texts.  New York:  Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997.

Day, Frances Ann.  Multicultural Voices in Contemporary Literature:  A Resource for Teachers.  Portsmouth, NH:  Heinemann, 1999.

Delpit, Lisa.  Other People’s Children:  Cultural Conflict in the Classroom.  New York:  New Press, 1996.

Harris, Violet J.  Using Multiethnic Literature in the K-8 Classroom.  New York:  Christopher-Gordon, 1997.

Helbig, Alethea, and Agnes Perkins.  Many Peoples, One Land:  A Guide to New Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults .  New York:  Greenwood, 2000.

Soter, Anna O.  Young Adult Literature and the New Literary Theories:  Developing Critical Readers in Middle School.  New York:  Teachers College Press, 1999.

History of Adolescence/Cultural Criticism on Adolescence

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs.  The Body Project:  An Intimate History of American Girls.  New York:  Vintage, 1997.

Currie, Dawn H.  Girl Talk:  Adolescent Magazines and Their Readers.  Toronto:  University of Toronto, 1999.

Edut, Ophira, ed.  Adios, Barbie:  Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity .  Seattle:  Seal Press, 1998.

Giroux, Henry.  Stealing Innocence:  Youth, Corporate Power, and the Politics of Culture.  New York:  St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

Hine, Thomas.  The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager.  New York:  HarperCollins, 1999.

Kindlon, Dan, and Michael Thompson.  Raising Cain:  Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys .  New York:  Ballantine, 1999.

Pallandino, Grace.  Teenagers:  An American History.  New York:  Basic Books, 1996.

Literary Criticism

Cart, Michael.  From Romance to Realism:  50 Years of Growth and Change in Young Adult Literature .  New York:  Harper Collins, 1996.

Johnson-Feelings, Diane.  Telling Tales.  New York:  Greenwood, 1990.

Kelly, Patricia P., and Robert C. Small, eds.  Two Decades of the ALAN Review.  Urbana, IL:  NCTE, 1999.

Nodelman, Perry.  The Pleasures of Children’s Literature.  2nd Ed.  New York:  Addison-Wesley, 1995.

Norton, Donna E.  Through the Eyes of Many Children:  Multicultural Children’s Literature.  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 2000.

Osa, Osayimwense.  The All-White World of Children’s Books and African American Children’s Literature.  Atlanta:  African World Press, 1995.

Smith, Karen Patricia.  African American Voices in Young Adult Literature .  Metuchen, NJ:  Scarecrow Press, 1994.

Stringer, Sharon.  Conflict and Connection:  The Psychology of Young Adult Literature.  New York:  Boynton, 1997.

Trites, Rebecca Seelinger.  Disturbing the Universe:  Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature.  Iowa City:  University of Iowa Press, 2000.

Zipes, Jack David.  Sticks and Stones:  The Troublesome Success of Children’s Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter.  New York:  Routledge, 2000.