Adolescence: defining moments -- The young adult reader -- Trends and issues in young adult literature -- Realistic fiction (reading skill: making connections) -- Romance, humor, and sports (reading skill: questioning) -- Historical fiction (reading skills: monitoring and clarifying) -- Mysteries, thrillers, and horror (reading skills: inferential thinking and predicting) -- Science fiction and fantasy (reading skills: visualizing and vocabulary) -- Short stories, poetry, and drama (reading skill: building fluency) -- Nonfiction, autobiographies, biographies, diaries, and memoirs (reading skills: text structure and summarizing) -- The classical canon and young adult literature (reading skill: synthesizing) -- The popular culture influence / by Faith H. Wallace -- YA literature and writing: motivating young writers in the real world / by James Blasingame

1. Reading (Middle school)
2. Young adult literature -- Study and teaching (Middle school)