Discusses the works of several authors who successfully depict young women in a realistic light, creating complex, multifaceted, appealing human beings with whose plight all readers can identify. Discusses works by Kathryn Lansky, Hadley Irwin, Brock Cole, Zibby O'Neal, Robin McKinly, Lyll Becerra de Jenkins, and Suzanne Fisher. (PRA)

Defines young-adult literature and the problems of writing novels for young-adults. Discusses rites of passage in adolescent literature, narration, and societal lore. (PRA)

Asserts that literature can empower teenage readers. Annotates 12 books which will help young people to be empowered through literature. Offers strategies for empowering the readers. (PRA)

Discusses the absence of adolescent literature in Advanced Placement (AP) English classes. Describes how a class of AP students and their teacher benefited from reading Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate War." (PRA)

Describes a writing assignment that uses metaphors to encourage students to rethink their assumptions about writing and about themselves as writers. Discusses metaphors of process and speed, fear and courage, control, silence, and metaphors as invitations. (PRA)

Describes how a ninth grade teacher uses short, in-class writing conferences to help students with their writing process. Discusses the writing conferences of specific students and offers suggestions on planning, timing, and organizing the conferences. (PRA)

Discusses how difficult it often is for writing teachers to write for their students. Relates the experiences of 12 teachers who tried to use their own writing with their students. (PRA)

Relates the responses of eight teachers to the question: "How do you involve students in evaluating your teaching and your curriculum, and what have you learned from them?" (PRA)

Discusses the importance of teacher evaluation in the writing classroom. Describes how such evaluation improved a writing class. Argues in favor of asking for frequent evaluations and for responding to students' suggestions. (PRA)

Reviews 12 new books dealing with mystery, suspense, and adventure from several tried-and-true authors of adolescent literature. (PRA)

Reviews nine novels for young adults written before 1967 which are now considered to be "classics" by many English teachers. (PRA)

Reviews two works which teachers and curriculum coordinators can use when seeking assistance in locating books that authentically represent multicultural viewpoints. Reviews also a new world literature anthology. (PRA)

Considers the benefits for kindergarten through college teachers of a two-week interdisciplinary institute called the "Truckee River Community Project." Outlines the objectives and methods of this project, which focused on an intensive study of the Truckee River of the High Sierras in Nevada. Argues for the value of the personal experiences of…

Details a program designed to encourage research projects aimed at promoting "higher literacy" carried out by middle and high school teachers of one Colorado school district. Argues for the value of individual and collaborative action-research projects by teachers. Describes the experience of the program. (HB)

Discusses the ways that middle school English teachers can use popular teen culture within the context of general English instruction. Suggests bringing television, film, comics, advice columns, and teen magazines into the English classroom. (HB)