DOCUMENT RESUME ED 415 506 CS 216 144 AUTHOR Stover, Lois T., Ed.; Zenker, Stephanie F., Ed. TITLE Books for You: An Annotated Booklist for Senior High. Thirteenth Edition. NCTE Bibliography Series. INSTITUTION National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. ISBN ISBN-0-8141-0368-5 ISSN ISSN-1051-4740 PUB DATE 1997-00-00 NOTE 465p.; For the 1995 edition, see ED 384 916. Foreword by Chris Crutcher. AVAILABLE FROM National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096 (Stock No. 03685: $16.95 members, $22.95 nonmembers). PUB TYPE Reference Materials Bibliographies (131) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC19 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Adolescent Literature; Adolescents; Annotated Bibliographies; *Fiction; High School Students; High Schools; *Independent Reading; *Nonfiction; *Reading Interests; *Reading Material Selection; Reading Motivation; Recreational Reading; Thematic Approach IDENTIFIERS Multicultural Materials; *Trade Books ABSTRACT Designed to help teachers, students, and parents identify engaging and insightful books for young adults, this book presents annotations of over 1,400 books published between 1994 and 1996. The book begins with a foreword by young adult author, Chris Crutcher, a former reluctant high school reader, that discusses what books have meant to him. Annotations in the book are grouped by subject into 40 thematic chapters, including "Adventure and Survival"; "Animals and Pets"; "Classics"; "Death and Dying"; "Fantasy"; "Horror"; "Human Rights"; "Poetry and Drama"; "Romance"; "Science Fiction"; "War"; and "Westerns and the Old West." Annotations in the book provide full bibliographic information, a concise summary, notations identifying world literature, multicultural, and easy reading title, and notations about any awards the book has won. Appendixes present lists of award-winning works of poetry, fiction drama, and nonfiction for the years 1994 through 1997; a list of approximately 500 multicultural titles; a 94-item list of world literature titles and directions on how to order. 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Stover and Stephanie F. Zenker, Editors, and the Committee on the Senior High School Book list of the National Council of Teachers of English With a Foreword by Chris Crutcher WM1Bibliography Series National Council of Teachers of English 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096 NCTE Editorial Board: Pat Cordeiro, Bill McBride, Bobbi Fisher, Xin Liu Gale, Sarah Hudelson, Al leen Pace Nilsen, Helen Poole, Jerrie Cobb Scott; Karen Smith, Chair, ex officio; Michael Greer, ex officio Manuscript Editor: Lee Erwin Production Editor: Rona S. Smith Series Cover Design: R. Maul Cover Illustration: Raul Colon. From the jacket illustration for An Island Like You ©1995 by Raul Colon. Used by permission. Interior Design: Doug Burnett NCTE Stock Number: 03685-3050 © 1997 by the National Council of Teachers of English. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. About the Cover The artwork on our cover was done in watercolor and colored pencil by Ratil Colon. It is from the front cover of An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio by Judith Ortiz Cofer, published by Orchard Books. The art shows a neighborhood of great diversityboth genders, older people as well as young childrenall of whom have a significant role to play in the lives of adolescents trying to figure out their place in the world. It shows very clearly the context in which the young people in the stories of An Island Like You are trying to move into adulthooda context that is a complicated one, set in present-day urban New Jersey, but rooted in a Hispanic cultural past. It is, therefore, a fairly complex representation, one that reflects the growing sophistication of the adolescent readers of Books for You. We are grateful to Ratil Colon and to Orchard Books for allowing us to reprint this art on our cover. It is the policy of NCTE in its journals and other publications to provide a fo- rum for the open discussion of ideas concerning the content and the teaching of English and the language arts. Publicity accorded to any particular point of view does not imply endorsement by the Executive Committee, the Board of Directors, or the membership at large, except in announcements of policy, where such endorsement is clearly specified. ISBN: 0-8141-0368-5 ISSN: 1051-4740 4 Contents About the NCTE Bibliography Series Acknowledgments vi Foreword vii Chris Crutcher Introduction for the Student ix 1. Adventure and Survival 1 2. Airplanes, Cars, Motorcycles, and Racing 10 3. Animals and Pets 16 4. The Arts: Art, Architecture, Music, Dance, Photography 23 5. Autobiography, Biography, and Collective Biography 40 6. Choices and Transitions 73 7. Classics 87 8. College, Education, and Careers 95 9. Computers and Related Technology 99 10. Dating and Sexual Awareness 102 11. Death and Dying 106 12. Diaries, Essays, Journals, Letters, and Oral Histories 113 13. Drugs, Alcohol, and Other Health Issues 122 14. Family Relationships 129 15. Fantasy 152 16. Friendships 170 17. Historical Fiction 177 18. History Geography, Archeology, and Anthropology 191 19. Holocaust 206 20. Horror 212 21. Human Rights 226 22. Humor and Satire 232 iv Contents 23. Language and Languages 236 24. Mysteries, Spies, and Crime 239 25. Myths, Legends, and Folklore 249 26. Poetry and Drama 257 27. Political Science and the Law 267 28. Recreation, Travel, and Leisure Time Activities 274 29. Reference 281 30. Religion, Cults, and Inspiration 294 31. Romance 301 32. School 309 33. Science and the Environment 315 34. Science Fiction 324 35. Self-Help 337 36. Short Stories 342 37. Sports and Sports Figures 354 38. Television, Movies, and Entertainment 366 39. War 369 40. Westerns and the Old West 375 Appendix A: Award-Winning Books 379 Appendix B: Multicultural Titles 389 Appendix C: World Literature Titles 401 Appendix D: How to Order Books 404 Author Index 405 Subject Index 417 Title Index 428 Editors 449 Committee on the Senior High School Book list 450 6 V About the NCTE Bibliography Series The National Council of Teachers of English is proud to be part of a tradi- tion that we want to share with you. In our bibliography series are four different booklists, each focused on a particular audience, each updated regularly. These are Adventuring with Books (pre-K through grade 6), Kaleidoscope (multicultural literature, grades K through 8), Your Reading (middle school / junior high), and Books for You (senior high). Together, these volumes list thousands of recent children's and young adult trade books. Although the works included cover a wide range of topics, they all have one thing in common: they're good books that students and teachers alike enjoy. How are these volumes put together? The process begins when an educator who knows literature and its importance in the lives of students and teachers is chosen by the NCTE Executive Committee to serve as booklist editor. That editor then works with teachers and librarians who review, select, and annotate hundreds of new trade books sent to them by publishers. It's a complicated process, one that can last three or four years. But because of their dedication and strong belief in the need to let others know about the good literature that's available, these professionals volunteer their time in a way that is commendable and serves as an inspiration to all of us. The members of the committee that compiled this volume are listed on pages 450-51, and we are truly grateful for their hard work. As educators know, no single book is right for every reader or every purpose, so inclusion in this booklist is not necessarily an endorsement from NCTE. But it does indicate that the professionals who make up the booklist committee feel that the work in question is worthy of teachers' and students' attention, whether for its informative or aesthetic qualities. Similarly, exclusion from an NCTE booklist is not necessarily a judgment on the quality of a given book or publisher. Many factorsspace, time, availability of certain books, publisher participationmay influence the final shape of the list. We hope that you'll find this booklist a useful resource in discovering new titles and authors, and we hope that you will want to collect other booklists in the series. Our mission is to help improve the teaching and learning of English and the language arts, and we hope you'll agree that the quality of our booklists contributes substantially toward that goal. Michael Greer Senior Editor vi Acknowledgments From the beginning, this thirteenth edition of Books for You has been a collaborative effort. The committee of thirty-plus reviewers who met early in 1994 to make decisions about the organization and format of the text probably had little idea of the level of the commitment involved in actually generating it. But, for the past two years, these dedicated teachers, librarians, teacher educators, and curriculum supervisors have conscientiously given of their time to find books, to read them, to write about them, to mail them, to meet about them, and, in short, to create this manuscript.