Why Incorporate YA Literature into the Classroom?

| By Sarah Robertson |

A genre of fiction geared toward preteen and teen readers, young adult (YA) literature explores the experiences and challenges of coming of age. Themes in YA literature include young love, identity, social conflicts, and family relationships, all explored through the unique lenses of young protagonists. Straddling the realm between fiction for children and fiction for adults, YA literature is as diverse as its young readers.

With themes and characters that often resonate with students more than those found in the traditional literary canon, YA literature can be invaluable in the classroom and in encouraging students to become lifelong readers. Educators constantly struggle to get students to read, but YA literature makes reading more attractive by providing students with a world they recognize. The characters in YA novels are not remote adults dealing with the distant troubles of adulthood; they are mirrors reflecting the anxieties of their young readers. With YA novels, reading becomes not a dreaded chore but a process of self-discovery and entertainment.

Incorporating YA literature into a curriculum gives students the opportunity to experience the joy of reading by breaking down the barriers students often encounter in traditional works, including characters, time periods, and subject matter that are foreign to them. Through teaching YA literature in the classroom, students can discover why reading fiction is important: to become more tolerant and open minded, to find characters to relate to, and to be challenged with conflicts or ideas outside of their realm of experience. Teaching YA literature sets students up for a lifetime of success as readers.

而不是关于文学意味着青春期和青少年作为固有unscholarly，我们应该尊重青少年读者的倾向阅读有关涉及到他们的问题，他们所面临的挑战。而是要求学生最初是为成年人写的只读的作品，它的时间来治疗文献青壮年具有相同的学术关怀和尊重作为经典写入。

Gale is pleased to announce the first young adult-focused installment in the Novels for Students series,Novels for Students,volume 62，其特点从不同的文化和不同时期的作品YA。Novels for Students,volume 62 includes novels by Becky Albertalli, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Kwame Alexander, J. K. Rowling, and Suzanne Collins, among others. We invite you to delve into the magical world of Harry Potter, experience the pressures of growing up in a Mexican American home in我不是你的完美墨西哥女儿，或在文化认同的格斗大流士大帝是不行的。拥有这些作品多，Novels for Students,成交量62报价YA文学的扫测，使结合流派走进教室浑然一体。

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Novels for Students,体积62处于可用的print要么在电子书格式Gale eBooks。

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