title: Thematic Guide to Young Adult Literature
author: Alice L. Trupe
description: Divided into 32 sections, each of which addresses selected books that speak to significant themes, this resource draws attention to both contemporary and historical titles. In each chapter, easy-to-read and engaging descriptions and summaries of the novels chosen for their thematic content (between four and six per chapter) are supplemented by a general introduction to the issue. Following the narrative, a brief bibliography of similarly themed works is appended. Trupe's attention to older and oft-forgotten fiction is admirable and likely reflects the real contents of school and public library collections. However, it comes at the exclusion of key newer titles, such as David Levithan's <i>Boy Meets Boy</i> (Knopf, 2003) and Julie Ann Peters's <i>Luna</i> (Little, Brown, 2004) under Sexual Identity, Sexual Desire. Furthermore, Trupe lists Nancy Garden's <i>Annie on My Mind</i> (Farrar, 1992) in the bibliography but fails to address this breakthrough title in the body of the chapter's narrative. The critical commentary promised in the introduction varies in depth and detail; one of the best discussions is found in the author's pithy analysis of Carol Plum-Ucci's <i>The Body of Christopher Creed</i> (Harcourt, 2000). The focus on issue books invites comparison to Sharon Spredemann Dreyer's <i>The Bookfinder</i> (American Guidance Service); the organization and scope of this book pales in comparison to that long-gone guide.<i>Amy S. Pattee, Simmons College, Boston</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Alice Gaines
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