Table of Contents
2
America's Designated Victims: Our Creative Young
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i2.a.1
Author discusses insights she gained from writing The Drowning of Stephan Jones
Bette Greene
5
Understanding Adolescent Homophobia: An Interview with Bette Greenee
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i2.a.2
Bette Green and Lynne Alvine explore the writing of Stephan Jones
Lynne Alvine
10
Homophobia: The Theme of the Novel,
Jack
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i2.a.3
Teacher describes how she used the novel, Jack
, to help her students understand the problems of homosexuals
Nan Phifer
12
Visions of Peace Through Literature
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i2.a.4
Award winning writer presents the case for living in peace
Marion Dane Bauer
14
Death in the Classroom
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i2.a.5
Novels that deal with death can help students cope with death in their own lives
Marvin Hoffman
18
Thin Books, Big Problems: Realism and the Reluctant Teen Reader
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i2.a.6
Short, well-written, realistic fiction is the key to capturing the non-reading teenager's attention
Patrick Jones
29
Using Young Adult Problem Fiction and Nonfiction To Produce Critical Readers
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i2.a.7
A class reads fiction dealing with personal problems, then researches the problems to judge the accuracy of the portrayal in fiction
Joan Kaywell
33
Using Literature and Technology To Relieve Adolescent Problems
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i2.a.8
Students prepare bookmarks, information pamphlets, and hypercards related to the books
Sharon Hurwitz
34
Duel at High Noon: A Replay of Cormier's Works
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i2.a.9
Cormier is seen as dealing not just with immediate adolescent concerns but issues of power and politics
Kathy Neal Headley
36
High-School Reading and Junior-High Hope:
The Tom Sawyer Solution
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i2.a.10
Creative and enthusiastic about reading, Tom Sawyer represents both the problem of teenage disinterest in reading and the solution to the problem
Steven VandeStaay
ALAN Connection
21 THE BOOK CONNECTION Virginia Monseau and Gary Salvner, editors39 THE CENSORSHIP CONNECTION
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i2.a.11 Nancy McCracken, editor
42 THE LIBRARY CONNECTION
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i2.a.12 Betty Carter, editor
46 THE PUBLISHER CONNECTION
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v21i2.a.13 M. Jerry Weiss, editor
48 THE MEMBERSHIP CONNECTION Kay Parks Bushman, editor
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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
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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
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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
Rosemary Ingham
Belmont University
Donald J. Kenney
Virginia Tech
John Mason
Scholastic, Inc.
Gary Salvner
Youngstown State University
Lois Stover
Towson State University
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Durham, North Carolina, Schools
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