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  • The Distant Mirror

    Reflections on Young Adult Historical Fiction

    by Joanne Brown, Nancy St. Clair ...
    Series series Studies in Young Adult Literature
    Young adult historical fiction brings the past alive through stories of adventure, suspense, and mystery. The genre is both complex and controversial, encompassing novels that range from romance and fantasy to stark historical realism. The book examines the various approaches to young adult historical fiction and explores the issues that it has engendered.Part One focuses on the broader issues ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

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  • Anne of the Island

    by Lucy M. Montgomery ...
    The third novel in the “Anne of Green Gables” saga, Lucy M. Montgomery’s “Anne of the Island” first debuted in 1915. The plucky young Anne Shirley is now all grown up into a smart beautiful young woman. Having left the environs of Avonlea, where she was employed as a teacher in the preceding novel, “Anne of Avonlea”, Anne is off to pursue her dream of obtaining a college degree at Redmond College ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Reinventing Knowledge

    From Alexandria to the Internet

    by Ian F. McNeely, Lisa Wolverton ...
    A dazzling intellectual history of the West served up with verve and insight by two brilliant young historians.Here is an intellectual entertainment, a sweeping history of the key institutions that have organized knowledge in the West from the classical period onward. With elegance and wit, this exhilarating history alights at the pivotal points of cultural transformation. The motivating question ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Tangled Tale

    by Lewis Carroll ...
    "A Tangled Tale" is not a narrative or a novel. Instead, it is a collection of mathematical problems and puzzles presented in the form of imaginative and entertaining stories. Each story contains a mathematical problem or a puzzle that the reader is invited to solve.Carroll's mathematical puzzles in "A Tangled Tale" are designed to challenge and engage the reader's logical thinking and problem ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Embedded Librarian

    Innovative Strategies for Taking Knowledge Where It's Needed

    by David Shumaker ...
    Here is the first comprehensive survey of the growing practice of "embedded librarianship"—a strategic model for placing information professionals into partnerships with the individuals and working groups that depend upon their knowledge and expertise. David Shumaker looks at implementations in all types of organizations, identifies the characteristics of successful embedded librarians, and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bridges to Understanding

    Envisioning the World through Children's Books

    by Linda M. Pavonetti ...
    This is the fourth volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People, following Children's Books from Other Countries (1998), The World Through Children's Books (2002), and Crossing Boundaries (2006). This latest volume, edited by Linda M. Pavonetti, includes books published between 2005 and 2009.This annotated bibliography, organized geographically by world region and country, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows

    A Children's Classic at 100

    Edited by Jackie C. Horne, Donna R. White ...
    Series series Children's Literature Association Centennial Studies
    In 1908, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows was published to surprisingly little critical fanfare. But readers championed its cause, and Grahame's novel of a riverbank life soon proved both a commercial-and ultimately critical-success. One hundred years after its first publication, Grahame's book and its memorable characters continue their hold on the public imagination and have taken their ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Prizing Children's Literature

    The Cultural Politics of Children’s Book Awards

    Edited by Kenneth Kidd, Joseph Thomas Jr. ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and canon-making. There are over 300 awards for English-language titles alone, but despite the profound impact of children’s book awards, scholars have paid relatively little attention to them. This book is the first ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature in the United States

    by Donna L. Gilton ...
    This book describes the history and characteristics of ethnic and multicultural children's literature in the U.S., as well as related materials published elsewhere. It relates in great detail the people, businesses, organizations, and institutions that create, disseminate, promote, critique, and collect these materials. Author Donna Gilton gives a detailed history of U.S. multicultural and ethnic ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature

    by Alleen Pace Nilsen, Don L. F. Nilsen ...
    Series series Studies in Young Adult Literature
    This book shows how authors of young adult literature use the creation of names for people, places, events, inventions, animals, and imaginary concepts as one of their most important literary techniques. Chapters address how authors use names to stretch readers' emotions, to reveal ethnic values and differences, to create "other worlds," and to establish tone. Other chapters focus on how authors ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove

    The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales

    by G. Ronald Murphy ...
    The fairy tales collected by the brothers Grimm are among the best known and most widely-read stories in western literature. In recent years commentators such as Bruno Bettelheim have, usually from a psychological perspective, pondered the underlying meaning of the stories, why children are so enthralled by them, and what effect they have on the the best-known tales (Hansel and Gretel, Little Red ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • The Heart Has Its Reasons

    Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-2004

    by Michael Cart, Christine A. Jenkins ...
    Series series Studies in Young Adult Literature
    Society does not make it easy for young people, regardless of their sexual orientation, to find accurate, nonjudgmental information about homosexuality. It makes it even more difficult for young homosexuals to find positive role models in fiction either written or published expressly for them or-if published for adults-relevant to them and their lives.The Heart Has Its Reasons examines these ... Read more

    $72.99 USD