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DEFINITION: Young Adult Literature, or YAL body of literary works (novels, plays,poetry, non-fiction) specifically created for and about adolescents and their concerns and interests. (Note: Children's Literature can also be use for bibliotherapeutic purposes.) On this page are samples of issues topics, arranged alphabetically, with recommended Young Adult Literature (YAL) title/authors relating to the topic. Although titles from past decades are included, the emphasis here is on fiction works from the 90's. A few titles are "adult" literature which some educators find appropriate for teens. Note: Many titles fit into multiple categories and some are listed in more than one. Titles and issues topics are added and updated on a monthly basis, beginning 7/99. IN THE WORKS: In the near future, a DOUBLE-CLICK on any highlighted title will bring up brief synopsis of the novel and age/grade recommendation as well as other pertinent information such as publisher and copyright. ABORTION Like Sisters on the Homefront Rita Garcia-Williams Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Chris Crutcher
ABUSE, PHYSICAL Bruises Anke De Vries (1995) Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Chris Crutcher Watcher (The) James Howe
ABUSE, SEXUAL Lena Jacqueline Woodson (2002)
ABUSE, VERBAL Bruises Anke De Vries (1995)
AIDs (non-fiction) It Happened to Nancy (anonymous; diary) Ryan White: My Own Story Ryan White and Ann Marie Cunningham
ALCOHOLISM Smack Meredith Burgess Imitate the Tiger Jan Cheripko
CENSORSHIP Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Nothing But the Truth Avi
DATE RAPE/MOLESTATION It Happened to Nancy (anonymous; nonfiction diary) She's Come Undone Wally Lamb
DEATH Bridge to Terebithia (The) Katherine Paterson On My Honor Marion Dane Bauer Separate Peace (A) John Knowles
DISABILITIES, PHYSICAL Tangerine Edward Bloor Life at Second Scott Johnson
DIVORCE Celine Brock Cole
DROP-OUT (HIGH SCHOOL) Contender Robert Lipsyte
DRUG ABUSE (diaries, anonymous, nonfiction) Go Ask Alice Jay's Journal
(fiction) Letters from the Mountain Sherry Garland Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (A) Alice Childress
FOSTER CARE Pinballs (The) Betsy Byars Won't Know until I Get There Walter Dean Myers
GANGS Party Girl Lynne Ewing Outsiders (The) S.E. Hinton Rumblefish S.E. Hinton Scorpions Walter Dean Myers
GUNS Scorpions Walter Dean Myers Swallowing Stones Joyce MacDonald
HOMELESSNESS December Stillness Mary Downing Hahn Asphalt Angels Ineke Holtwijk Where the Heart Is Billie Letts Where's Home Jonahan London Lena Jacqueline Woodson
HOMOSEXUALITY Am I Blue? ed. Marion Dane Bauer Baby Bebop Francesca Block Ironman Chris Crutcher Reflections of a Rock Lobster Aaron Fricke Annie on my Mind Nancy Garden
IDENTITY (Search for) (religious/spiritual) Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume I Heard the Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven Ms. Isabelle Cornell, Herself Carol Farley Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank Fine White Dust (A) Cynthia Rylant (ethnic/cultural) Bless Me, Ultima Rudolpho Anaya Children of the River Linda Crew Dakota Dream James Bennett Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George
ILLEGITIMACY ILLITERACY Send No Blessings
JUVENILE DELIQUENCY/CRIME Bad Jean Ferris Letters from the Inside John Marsden Monster Walter Dean Myers Catcher in the Rye (The) J.D. Salinger
LEARNING DISABILITIES Summer of the Swans Betsy Byars
MARRIAGE (TEEN) Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones Ann Head
MENTAL ILLNESS (schizophrenia, suicide) I Know this Much Is True Wally Lamb
(obsessive/compulsive disorder) Kissing Doorknobs Terry Spencer He Vsser
(post traumatic shock syndrome) So Much to Tell You John Marsden
(self-mutilation) Crosses Shelley Stoehr
(other mental illness) Gone from Home Angela Johnson
OBESITY, EATING DISORDERS Blubber Judy Blume Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack M.E. Kerr She's Come Undone Wally Lamb Slot Machine Chris Lynch
PARENTS (PROBLEM) (absentee/abandonment) Name Me Nobody Lois-Ann Yamanaka A Solitary Blue Cynthia Voigt
(father-son problems) Somewhere in the Darkness Walter Dean Myers
(father-daughter problems) Shizuko's Daughter Kyoko Mori
(mother-daughter problems) Amy and Isabelle Elizabeth Strout
POVERTY Make Lemonade
PREGNANCY (TEEN) Like Sisters on the Homefront Rita Garcia-Williams What Kind of Love? : The Diary of a Pregnant Teenager Sheila Cole
PREJUDICE (religious) Two Suns in the Sky Miriam Bat-Ami Upon the Head of a Goat Aranka Siegel
(ethnic/racial) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Summer of My German Soldier Bette Greene Necessary Roughness Marie G. Lee If I Should Die Before I Wake Han Nolan Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred Taylor To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
PUBERTY/SEXUAL AWAKENING Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume Forever Judy Blume Summer Sisters Judy Blume Sex Education Jenny Davis She's Come Undone Wally Lamb Under the Mermaid Angel Martha Moore
REBELLION (individual) Catcher in the Rye (The) J.D. Salinger Chocolate War (The) Robert Cormier
(group) Downriver Will Hobbs
SIBLING RIVALRY Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Paterson Tangerine Edward Bloor
SPORTS ISSUES (non-fiction) Friday Night Lights H.G. and Buzz Bissinger
(fiction) Tangerine Edward Bloor Roughnecks Thomas Cohen Hoops Walter Dean Myers Wrestling Sturbridge Rich Wallace
SUICIDE Chinese Handcuffs Chris Crutcher
SURVIVAL Girl in the Box (The) Ouida Sebestyen Hatchet Gary Paulsen Julie of the Wolves Lord of the Flies William Golding Follow the River James Alexander Thom
VANDALISM/VIOLENCE We All Fall Down Robert Cormier
Comments: disted@indiana.edu Copyright 1998, The Trustees of Indiana University
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