English Journal, Vol. 73, No. 7, November 1984

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page: The Rights of Passage for Adolescent Literature

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: Successful Authors Talk about Teaching and Writing

  Patricia Reilly Giff, Paul B. Janeczko, Paula Danziger, Stephen Tchudi

• Teaching Literature for the Adolescent: A Historical Perspective

  G. Robert Carlsen

• What Should Teachers Know About YA Lit for 2004?

  Don Gallo

• Adolescent Literature: A Transition into a Future of Reading

  Susan Monroe Nugent

• Language Abuse: A Short Word-Play

  Richard K. Redfern

• Out on a Limb

  Ellen D. Kolba

• The Legacy of Ralph Ellison in Virginia Hamilton's Justice Trilogy

  Janice Hartwick Dressel

• Ray Bradbury's 2026: A Year with Current Value

  Robert Dominianni

• Love, Hate, Manipulate: How Teachers Rate in YA Fiction

  Jeanie Goodhope

• Peter Brueghel and William Golding

  Mary Ruthe Carter

• The Onion and When the Legends Die

  Loren C. Bell

• So You Think You Know Young Adult Literature

  James M. Brewbaker

• The Open Library: YA Books for Gay Teens

  David E. Wilson

• We "Booked" Brown Bag Talks

  Georgia Cook and Marian Kanable

• YA Literature-A Matter of Life and Death

  Sister M. Bernadette Bratina

• Images of Women in Recent Adolescent Literature

  Anna Lee Stensland

• O.K., If YA Lit Is So Good, Why Can't I Sell It in My School?

  Mike Angelotti

• Dragons in the Classroom

  Lucia Owen

• Helping Adolescents Understand Death and Dying through Literature

  Laura W. Wilson

• YA Authors to Get a Twayne Series of Their Own

  Ron Brown

• ERIC/RCS Report: Where Does Adolescent Literature Belong?

  Holly O'Donnell

• Our Readers Write: A Good Nonfiction Book

• Recommended: Anne McCaffrey

  Sharon Liddell

• Too Good to Miss

  Gary Taylor

• Departments

• Teaching the Process of Writing

  Patricia P. Kelly

• The YA Option: A Thematic Approach to YA Literature

  Joe Goldstein and Harriet Novick

• Ties That Bind: Families in YA Books

  Beth and Ben Nelms

• Computer Books for Young Adults

  Betty Carter

• Poem: The Chase

  Linda Opyr

• Poem: Masquerade

  Fran McManus, RSM

• Poem: I Seen It

  Alfred L. Gendernalik

• NCTE to You

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