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Discusses how negative experiences of teenage students and their resulting attitudes toward assigned books have created an aliterate society. Examples of typical adolescent experiences with books; Valuable qualities of young adult literature; Recommended books. (Abstract from EBSCO.) An article well-worth reading for all students, regardless of paper topic.

The Virginia Department of Education has unveiled a tool that teachers and parents can use to select books that interest young readers and help them improve their skills.

Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours" and other works, was artist-in-residence recently at the University of Maryland at College Park. This is part of a conversation he had with reporter Valerie Strauss about young people and literature.

First in an occasional series exploring variations in how popular courses are taught.