YALS Volume 9, Number 4, Summer 2011

School Library Perspectives

Picturing Teen Read Week @ the School Library
By Paige Battle

YALSA Perspectives

Readers and Writers: Three Alex Award Winners
By Karen Keys

Best Practices

Out of School and In the Library: Connecting With Resources in the Out of School Time (OST) Field
By Maureen Hartman

Libraries Bridging the Borderlands: Reaching Latino Tweens and Teens with Targeted Programming and Collections
By Jamie Campbell Naidoo and Luis Francisco Vargas

Hot Spot: Teen Read Week

The Movie Is (Sometimes) Better Than the Book: Adaptations as Literary Analysis
By Mark Flowers

Picture It: The Diverse Possibilities of Graphic Novel Literature
By Francisca Goldsmith

Now Is the Time: E-books, Teens, and Libraries
By Linda W. Braun

Picture It! Novels To Fuel Imagination and Spark Creativity
By Julia K. Riley

Picture It: Where in the World Is Your Librarian? A Bibliographic Experiment
By Heather Blicher and Stephanie Bedell

Funding Problems? Your Teens Can Make a Difference
By Barbara Klipper

Young Adult Literature

Beyond Forever: The Next Generation of Young Women; Protagonists’ Sexual Motivations in Contemporary Young Adult Novels
By Caroline McKinley

Getting It On: An Examination of How Contraceptives Are Portrayed in Young Adult Literature
By Jeanne T. McDermott

Plus:

From the Editor
Sarah Flowers

From the President
Kim Patton

Guidelines for Authors

Index to Advertisers

The YALSA Update

Index to Volume 9