What we know about nonfiction and young adult readers and what we need to do about it |
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| Authors: | Richard F Abrahamson Betty Carter |
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| Institution: | (1) University of Houston, Houston, USA;(2) 787 Pelican Lance, 75019 Coppell, TX |
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| Abstract: | Nonfiction for young adults is enjoying a rebirth of interest among publishers, librarians, and teachers with the emergence
of an approach that uses facts as information to be shared with children trying to make sense of their world. Reading interest
studies disclose patterns in young readers' preferences in nonfiction. Suggestions are offered to encourage the reading of
nonfiction, to help teachers use these books effectively in classroom discussion, and to help select nonfiction for reading
aloud.
He has been president of the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly on Adolescent Literature. He and Betty Carter
edited the 1988 edition ofBooks for You: A Senior High Booklist for NCTE, and the two also publishedNonfiction for Young Adults: From Delight to Wisdom from Oryx Press. Address for correspondence: Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Houston, Houston, TX
77204.
Betty Carter, a former junior high reading teacher and school librarian, is now an assistant professor at Texas Woman's University
in the School of Library and Information Studies, where she teaches classes in young adult and children's literature. She
has chaired the American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults Committee and is president-elect of NCTE's Assembly
on Adolescent Literature. |
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