ALAN v25n2 - Table of Contents

Table of Contents

From the Editors
Robert Small and Patricia Kelly

Honoring All Our Stories
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v25i2.a.1
Erica Bauermeister

Author of guide to books by women writers and guide to books with major female characters discusses both the need for the guides and the preparation of them.

Someone Else’s Words
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v25i2.a.2
Rich Wallace

Author looks back at his own years as an adolescent and finds that words from songs and from friends helped him survive being a teenager.

Validating the Personal in Katherine Paterson’s Park’s Quest
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v25i2.a.3
Robert L. Lockhart

Lockhart brings to focus on Paterson’s novel his own experiences and emphasizes the importance of personal engagement with literature in the present as the foundation of a commitment to literature.

Lyddie and Oliver :
Instructional Framework for Linking Historical Fiction to the Classics
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v25i2.a.4
Janis Harmon

Writer contends that historical fiction is both popular with young readers and has much to offer them. She provides frameworks for teaching such novels and for linking them to classics from the same historical period.

A Bridge Too Far — But Why?
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v25i2.a.5
John Simmons

Long-time advocate of intellectual freedom considers the attacks on Newbery Award winning Bridge to Terabithia and the implication of those attacks for YA Literature.

Collage in Francesca Lia Block’s Weetzie Bat Books
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v25i2.a.6
Rebecca Platzner

Using the technique of collage herself, Platzner analyzes and illustrates Block’s use of that technique within and across her books.

A Dramatic Reading of Adolescent Literature
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v25i2.a.7
J. Lea Smith and J. Daniel Herring

Teachers combine Reading Workshop and Writing Workshop with drama to help students understand and develop skill with writing and presentation.

Exceeding Our Grasp:
An Examination of Moral Development
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v25i2.a.8
Edgar H. Thompson, Connie B. Blevins, and Allison Fitzgerald

Application of Kohlberg’s stages of moral development to Newbery Award winning novel reveals a character advanced in moral reasoning.

A REVIEW ESSAY

John Noell Moore’s Interpreting Young Adult Literature
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v25i2.a.9
S. David Gill

THE CENSORSHIP CONNECTION

A War of Words:
Lessons from a Censorship Case
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v25i2.a.10
Gary M. Salvner

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ALAN Connection

THE BOOK CONNECTION
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v25i2.a.11
Gary M. Salvner, editor

THE CENSORSHIP CONNECTION
Nancy McCracken, editor

THE PUBLISHER CONNECTION
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v25i2.a.12
Jerry Weiss, editor

THE RETROSPECTIVE CONNECTION
https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v25i2.a.13
Teri S. Lesesne, editor

THE TRIVIA CONNECTION
Jim Brewbaker, editor

THE MEMBERSHIP CONNECTION
Chris Crowe, editor

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CO-EDITORS
Patricia P. Kelly Virginia Tech	Robert C. Small, Jr. Radford University
COLUMN EDITORS
The Publisher Connection M. Jerry Weiss Jersey City State College	The Book Connection Gary M. Salvner Youngstown State University
The Membership Connection Chris Crowe Brigham Young University	The Research Connection Pamela Sissi Carroll Florida State University
The Censorship Connection Nancy McCracken Kent State University	The Diversity Connection Eileen Oliver Washington State University
The Retrospective Connection Teri S. Lesesne Sam Houston State University	The Trivia Connection Jim Brewbaker Columbus State College, Georgia
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: Lois Stover St. Mary's College, Maryland	Immediate Past President: Gary M. Salvner Youngstown State University
President-elect: Joan Kaywell University of South Florida	Executive Secretary: Theodore W. Hipple University of Tennessee
DIRECTORS
Kylene Beers Houston, Texas	Pamela Sissi Carroll Florida State University
Michael Cart Los Angeles, California	Ted Fabiano Blue Valley Northwest HS, Kansas
Sara Herz Westport, Connecticut	Rita Karr Sykesville Middle School, Maryland
Terry Ley Auburn University	Bill Mollineaux Sedgwick MS, West Hartford, CT
Suzanne Reid Emory & Henry College, Virginia

by TG