Adolescents At Risk

This is the first annotated guide to recent young adult literature that is organized into specific problem areas: alienation and identity disabilities homosexuality divorced and single parents adopted and foster families abuse eating disorders (anorexia nervosa and bulimia) alcohol and drugs poverty dropouts and delinquency teenage pregnancy AIDS death and dying and stress and suicide. More than 900 recommended books published through 1993 have been annotated. Reading levels of recommended books are grades 5-8 and interest level is through grade 12.This work addresses bibliotherapy but is not based on it. Instead it is built on the premise that literacy is the key to growth and understanding. Each chapter deals with a specific adolescent problem area and begins with general comments about the problem startling information and current statistics about its gravity and pervasiveness warning signs to look for and suggestions of what to do and where to go for help. Each entry contains complete bibliographic information. The format and readable annotations will make it easy for young adults parents librarians teachers clergy psychologists counselors social workers and health professionals to find appropriate fiction and nonfiction books and articles on the serious problems that adolescents face today.