Bibliography of Young Adult Literature
By Mary Jo Colbert
This bibliography was designed for teachers and parents as a resource to locate Young Adult Literature. It is divided into three categories: Authors, Integrating Literature Into the Mainstream, and Indexes.
Authors:
Author Biographies (Print) for Middle and Secondary Schools -This site offers a number of authors’ biographies and autobiographies listing their most famous works. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biogms.htm
Chris Crutcher : Teacher Resource File- On this site you will find book reviews, biography, lesson plans and other resources. There is a bibliography of books written by Chris Crutcher. Within the site you will find an area of literary criticism that gives insight to some of the harsh topics that Crutcher covers in his books. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/crutcher.htm
Louisa May Alcott : Teacher Resource File- From the numerous biographies, e-texts, and media this site is a wealth of information. The lesson plans and interactives are at you finger tips. Included is a bibliography of her works. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/alcott.htm
The M. E. Kerr & Mary James Site-
This is an excellent site for M.E. Kerr as an Educational resource for young adult literature. It includes an interview, biography, bibliography, references, comments, book summaries, and discussion group. This site provides a sound byte of the author.
David A. Adler (Teacher Resource File) – This site contains a biography, book reviews, lesson plans and criticism of Adler’s works. There is also a bibliography of his works contained on this site.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/adler.htm
Rowling J. K. -Scholastic- A definite for the “Harry Potter” enthusiast, this magical site offers everything from a biography of Rowling to interactive games. You have the opportunity to review her books and to download a screen saver.
http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/home.asp
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Integrating
Literature into the Mainstream:
On the Question of Integrating Young Adult Literature Into the Main Stream-
This is an enlightening article on Chris Crutcher’s views on young adult literature. As an author of young adult literature, he has an insight to the audience he is writing for and the audience he would like to expand. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring97/s97-05-Davis.html
Author chats.com This gives students an opportunity to chat with the author through the teacher/ librarian/ media specialist posting questions. Students can send in questions and view the chat live
Spaghetti Book Club This is a web site for kids who love to read and talk about books. As the largest site of book reviews written and illustrated by kids for kids, this innovative literacy program integrates reading, writing, art, and technology by teaching students how to write and illustrate book reviews.
http://www.spaghettibookclub.org/
Education Place Found in this site are 
resources for teachers, students, and
parents. These resources include Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science, and
Social Studies Centers, Intervention, Professional Development, searchable
activity database, educational games, and textbook support.
Scholastic- This site offers unlimited resources for parents and teachers with
lesson plans, activities, advice and timesavers. Within the site are book
reviews, author information and product information.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/
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Indexes:
Index to Internet Sites: Children’s’ and Young Adults’ Authors and Illustrators- This site is a internet school library media center index for both parents and teachers. This meta-site offers access to curriculum related sites that provide lesson plans, interactive, etc.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm
Yahoo Directory – Authors -Young Adult- This site gives a listing of authors and their web sites for additional information.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors/Young_Adult/
Bartleby.com – This internet publisher offers the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge for the home, classroom, and desktop.
Internet School Library Media Center-
The Internet School Library Media Center is listed in Library
Hi Tech as one of the ‘ best library related sites on the Internet”. There
is a varied offering form Art History to a Needle in a Cyber stack.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/index.html
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Magazines, Ezines, Stories and Poetry by and for Children & Young Adults – Several young adult magazines, ezines, stories and poetry are found with in this One unique thing about this site is that it offers an opportunity for young adults to submit their written work for contests, publications and assistance in writing.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/chyaonline.htm
The Children's Literature Web Guide –This is a Quick Reference for the children’s book awards, the year’s best books, Children’s best sellers, and the Docuette Index: Teaching Ideas for Children’s Books.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
YA LIBRARIANS’ HOMEPAGE YA LITERATURE – This is an index compiled from many
librarian, educators’ and other web pages reviewing young adult literature. It
includes book lists, book reviews, comics, and novels and is an ongoing index.
http://yahelp.suffolk.lib.ny.us/yalit.html