Offers over fifty ideas to promote young adult reading, including such theme programs as crime scene investigation, poetry workshops, readings combined with fie

School and public libraries often provide programs and activities for children in preschool through the sixth grade, but there is little available to young adul

This multidisciplinary handbook pulls together in one volume the research on children's and young adult literature which is currently scattered across three int

As high school enrollment continues to rise, the need for effective librarianship serving young adults is greater than ever before. "Young Adults Deserve the Be

the findings are presented of 1994 surveys on services and resources for children and young adults (ages 12-18) in public libraries. Each survey was conducted w