ALAN Volume 21, Number 3 - Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1 From The Editors

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Young Adult Genres Other Than The Novel

2 Life, Live Theater, and the Lively Classroom
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i3.a.1
Well-known writer for young adults discusses the value of plays written for young readers, actors, and playgoers.
Sandy Asher

9 Teaching Tomorrow's Classics
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i3.a.2
Authors discuss two YA novels they predict will be classics and two that will be classics in novel and film versions.
Mary Ann Tighe and Charles Avinger

14 Film and the Young Adult Novel
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i3.a.3
Fims based on YA novels have generally failed, but films made about young adults and their problems frequently have been artistic successes.
Harold Foster

18 Teaching for Visual Literacy: 50 Great Young Adult Films
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i3.a.4
Films portraying the lives of young adults serve as the bases for a "viewer response" study of film and film-making.
Alan B. Teasley and Ann Wilder

24 Forming Connections and Awakening Visions : Using Short Story Collections in the Classroom
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i3.a.5
Recent collections of short stories written for young adults make studying the genre exciting and rewarding.
Teri S. Lesesne

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Women Writers Of Young Adult Literature

27 An Adolescent's Best Friend: The Roles of Animals in Lynn Hall's Fiction
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i3.a.6
Lynn Hall's use of animals in her novels varies from background to the focus of the story and of the heroine's affections.
Joanne Brown

41 The Semicentennial of Seventeenth Summer : Some Questions and Answers
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i3.a.7
Author answers some questions about Maureen Daly's life and work.
Nancy Vogel

43 Help! Help! An Analysis of Female Victims in the Novels of Lois Duncan
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i3.a.8
Although her female victims may begin her novels as stereotypes, they rarely turn out to be.
Deborah Wilson Overstreet

47 Katherine Paterson's Lyddie : Travel Within and Beyond
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i3.a.9
Lyddie travels from farm girl to factory worker, to college student in Nineteenth Century America.
Laura Zaidman

51 Vision of Self in Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i3.a.10
In Jacob Have I Loved Paterson chronicles the human search for identity.
Patricia A. Liddie

53 The "Different Truth" for Women in Sue Ellen Bridgers' Permanent Connections
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i3.a.11
Bridgers' novel explores the "coming of age" not only of teenage characters but also of two women who begin to lead their own lives.
Karen Mitchell

56 Teaching, Learning and Archetypes: Images of Instruction in Cynthia Voigt's Dicey's Song
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i3.a.12
Three different types of teachers play an important role in Voigt's novel.
Tom Albritton

70 YA Literature Trivia

Answers

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ALAN Connection

23 THE BOOK CONNECTION Virginia Monseau and Gary Salvner, editors
41 THE DIVERSITY CONNECTION
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i3.a.13 Ronn Hopkins, editor
46 THE LIBRARY CONNECTION
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i3.a.14 Betty Carter, editor
44 THE PUBLISHER CONNECTION
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i3.a.15 M. Jerry Weiss, editor
52 THE MEMBERSHIP CONNECTION Kay Parks Bushman, editor

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Published by the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents, National Council of Teachers of English, three times a year (fall, winter, spring). Member of NCTE Affiliate Information Exchange Agreement. Editorial offices are at the Office of the Dean, College of Education and Human Development, Radford University, Radford, Virginia 24142. Printed by the Virginia Tech Printing Services. Cover Design by Ann Hardell, Blacksburg, Virginia. Cover Printing by Virginia Tech Printing Services.

Contributions of the following kind are solicited: Articles on YA literature and/or teaching of it; papers presented at meetings; abstracts of studies (dissertations included); summaries of surveys; reports from meetings, bibliographies on selected topics (YA books or professional articles).

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Subscription rates are $15 per year in the U.S. and $19 per (U.S. funds) in other countries. Membership applications and renewals should be sent to ALAN c/o NCTE, Attn. William Subick, 1111 Kenyon Road, Urbana, Illinois 61801. For information contact NCTE at 217/328-3870.

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CO-EDITORS

Patricia P. Kelly
Virginia Tech

Robert C. Small, Jr.
Radford University

COLUMN EDITORS

The Library Connection
Betty Carter
Texas Woman's University

The Publisher Connection
M. Jerry Weiss
Jersey City State College

The Book Connection
Virginia Monseau
Youngstown State University

Gary Salvner
Youngstown State University

The Membership Connection
Kay Parks Bushman
Ottawa High School, Ottawa, KS

The Research Connection
Pamela Sissi Carroll
Florida State University

The Censorship Connection
Nancy McCracken
Kent State University

The Diversity Connection
Ronn Hopkins
Norfolk State University

EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD

Hugh Agee
University of Georgia

James E. Davis
Ohio University

Sally Hellman
Community College of Southern Nevada

Norma J. Livo
University of Colorado at Denver

Al Muller
East Carolina University

Carole Williams
Mehlville School District

OFFICERS

President:
Virginia Monseau
Youngstown State University

Immediate Past President:
Betty Carter
Texas Woman's University

President Elect:
Diana Mitchell
Sexton High School, Lansing, MI

Executive Secretary:
Theodore W. Hipple
University of Tennessee

DIRECTORS

John H. (Jack) Bushman
University of Kansas

Beatrice Cain
Clemson University

Patricia Campbell
Twayne Publishers

Chris Crowe
Brigham Young University

Rosemary Ingham
Belmont University

Donald J. Kenney
Virginia Tech

John Mason
Scholastic, Inc.

Gary Salvner
Youngstown State University

Lois Stover
Towson State University

Alan Teasley
Durham, North Carolina, Schools