Also, there's a thread somewhere in this forum (books) that has a subject that's something like, "Stacer, recommend me a book" in which I posted about 10 posts' worth of fantasy/SF recommendations.
Here's the regular class reading list (we read the touchstones in preparation for class before the first day, and the following list is the regular coursework). Sorry about lack of italics/formatting--I just copied/pasted, then deleted dates. If you want it in a word attachment, I can email it to you.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
(any edition, 1916), chapters 1 and 2
"All of a Tremble to See His Danger," Aidan Chambers in
The Arbuthnot Lectures 1980-1989 (ALA, 1990)
Reviews of Cool: The Signs and Meanings of Adolescence and Teenagers: An American History. Reviews by Marcel Danesi and Grace Palladino in The Lion and the Unicorn 22:2 (1998) 250-254.
Twentieth-Century Teen Culture by the Decades, Lucy Rollin (Greenwood, 1999)
Terms of the Michael Printz Award,
www.ala.org/yalsa Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon (Doubleday, 2003)
Hush, Jacqueline Woodson ((Putnam, 2002)
Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block (Harper, 1989)
“Imprints of the Mind: The Depiction of Consciousness in Children’s Fiction," Maria Nikolajeva. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 26.4 (2002), 173-87.
The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier (Pantheon, 1974)
"The Absence of Moral Agency in Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War," Anita Tarr. Children's Literature. 30 (2002) 99-124.
"No Safe Place to Run to: An Interview with Robert Cormier," Mitzi Myers. Lion and Unicorn, 24.3 (September 2000), 445-464.
The Breadwinner, Deborah Ellis (Groundwood, 2001)
Butler, Judith. "Subversive Bodily Acts," in Gender Trouble, 128-141.
In class: excerpt from Osama (Afghan film)
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Carolyn Mackler (Candlewick, 2003)
The First Part Last, Angela Johnson (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida, Victor Martinez (Harper, 1996)
American Eyes: New Asian American Short Stories for Young Adults, Lori M. Carlson, ed. (Fawcett, 1995)
A Sudden Silence, Eve Bunting (Harcourt, 1988)
I do NOT recommend this book. This was a prof. candidate who chose this. It is NOT a good example of what's typical of good YA. I leave it on the list as a contrast.Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Chris Crutcher (Greenwillow, 1993)
Brown, Joanne. "Interrogating the 'Real' in Young Adult Realism," The New Advocate 12.3 (fall 1999), 345-57.
David, Terri. "A Healing Vision," English Journal. 85.3 (March 1996), 36-42.
The Center of Everything, Laura Moriarty (Hyperion, 2003)
Seek, Paul Fleischman (Marcato/Cricket, 2001)
A Step from Heaven, An Na (Front Street, 2001)
"Housekeeping" film
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, 2003)
Tangerine, Edward Bloor (Harcourt, 1997)
Any essay from Aronson's Exploding the Myths and/or Beyond the Pale
Rats Saw God, Rob Thomas (Simon and Schuster, 1996)
This is the same guy who writes/developed Veronica MarsSpeak, Laurie Halse Anderson (Farrar, 1999)
Spinning through the Universe, Helen Frost (Farrar, 2004)
Episode of Veronica Mars