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Young Adult Library Services Volume 4, Number 2

Table of Contents

 

Fall 2005

 
FROM THE EDITOR  2

FROM THE PRESIDENT
Growing YALSA
Pamela Spencer Holley

 

 3
FEATURES  

Taking a STAB at Best Books: Teen Participation in BBYA
Angelina Benedetti and Rick Orsillo

 

 4

Picking the Quick Picks
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Committee

 

 7

Perceptions on Practice: YA Literature Collections
Mary K. Chelton

 

 10

SPECIAL SECTION: INSIDE TODAY’S TEEN LIT

 

David Lubar
A Passion for Stories
An Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith

 

 12

Something for Every Reader
New YA Books that Cross Lines
Teri S. Lesesne

 

 17

Going All the Way in Teen Literature
Marlene Perez

 

 20
LITERATURE SURVEYS AND RESEARCH

I'm Pregnant!
Fear and Conception in Four Decades of Young Adult Literature
Diane Emge

 

 22

The Secret Source
Sexually Explicit Young Adult Literature as an Information Source
Amy Pattee

 

 30

What Do You Want to Tell Us About Reading?
A Survey of the Habits and Attitudes of Urban Middle School Students
Toward Leisure Reading
Sandra Hughes-Hassel and Christina Lutz

 

 39
THE UPDATE  48
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS  47