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APPENDIX: EXAMPLES OF BOOKS, SHORT STORIES, AND POETRY FROM YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Books
- Card, O. S. (1991). Ender’s game (rev. ed.). New York: Tor.
- Collins, S. (2008). The hunger games. New York: Scholastic Press.
- Cormier, R. (1974). The chocolate war: A novel. New York: Pantheon Books.
- Riggs, R. (2011). Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children. Philadelphia: Quirk Books.
- Salinger, J. D. (1951). The catcher in the rye. Boston: Little, Brown.
- Zusak, M. (2006). The book thief. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Short Story Collections
- Cofer, J. O. (1995). An island like you: Stories of the barrio. New York: Orchard Books.
- Howe, J. (2001). The color of absence: 12 stories about loss and hope. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
- Rochman, H. (1997). Leaving home: Stories. New York: HarperCollins.
- Yep, L. (1993). American dragons: Twenty-five Asian American voices. New York: HarperCollins.
Poetry Collections
- Eliot, T. S. (1963). Collected poems, 1909–1962 (1st American ed.). New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.
- Heaney, S. (1990). New selected poems, 1966–1987. London: Faber and Faber.
- Matthews, W. (1998). After all: Last poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.