Today’s Teens, Their Problems, and Their Literature: Revisiting G. Robert Carlsen’s Books and the Teenage Reader Thirty Years Later

Revisits G. Robert Carlsen’s call for the use of young adult literature in the classroom by looking specifically at the emotional and reading needs of older adolescents, those in the upper grades. Discusses problems associated with adolescence in the late twentieth century and lists recommended young adult books that touch on those issues.