ENG350: Literature for Young Adults
 Interterm 2012

Texts
 We will read a core group of common texts, but I'll be breaking you into groups to discuss and present to the rest of the class those texts listed as "choice" texts.

Core Texts:
  • Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (Square Fish Rpt. Ed., 2011, ISBN-10: 0312674392; or Speak, 10th Anniversary Ed., 2009, ISBN-10: 0142414735)
  • Monster by Walter Dean Myers (Amistad, 2001, ISBN-10: 0064407314)
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Rpt. Ed., 2009, ISBN-10: 0316013692)

Choose ONE of the following YA "classics":

  • The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton (Speak, 1997, ISBN-10 014038572X; or Puffin Platinum Ed., 2006, ISBN-10: 014240733X; or Penguin Classic, 2006, ISBN-10: 0143039857)
  • The Contender by Robert Lipsyte (Harper Teen, 1997, ISBN-10: 0064470393)
  • Go Ask Alice—Anonymous (Simon Pulse, 2005, ISBN-10: 1416914633)

Choose ONE of the following texts representing a minority point of view:

  • The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (Vintage, 1991, ISBN-10: 0679734775)
  • A Step from Heaven by An Na (Speak, 2003, ISBN-10: 0142500275)
  • The Orange Houses by Paul Griffin (Speak Rpt. Ed., 2011, ISBN-10: 0142419826)

Choose ONE of the following experiments with plot sequence or point of view:

  • The First Part Last by Angela Johnson (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Rpt. Ed., 2010, ISBN-10: 1442403438)
  • Inexcusable by Chris Lynch (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2007, ISBN-10: 1416939725)
  • Whirligig by Paul Fleischman (Square Fish Rpt. Ed., 2010, ISBN-10: 0312629117)

Choose TWO additional texts from lists of texts available through BC's library or the local library or Dr. Trupe's collection or interlibrary loan.

Choose ONE graphic novel from list that will be made available in class.

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Updated Nov. 28, 2011