This text will reach a new market, the LIS instructor who is looking for something that combines the literature
with the practical in teaching courses in materials for children and young adults for an audience of school and
public children's librarians. It provides an activity-oriented survey of young adult literature for undergraduate
and graduate students seeking licensure and degrees leading to careers working with young adults in school and
public libraries. Embedded in a genre approach to literature will be actions that teachers, librarians, young adults,
and students of library science may choose for involving themselves in the literature.