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Offers a bibliography and several indices based on such themes for young adults as drug abuse, pregnancy, and suicide, while also considering each title's depth of subject matter and controversiality.

Explains the history and significance of the Caldecott Award and includes a list of the winning and honor books, brief biographies of their illustrators, and questions about the books.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical information about five hundred notable American women, each followed by an annotated list of no more than five biographies, autobiographies, letter collections of journals concerning the subject's life.

Presents descriptions of over 1,300 fiction titles that may be of interest to teens, most published since 2005, grouped in the categories of issues, contemporary life, adventure, mystery and suspense, fantasy, science fiction, paranormal, historical, multicultural, Christian, and alternative formats.

Presents a comprehensive collection of the author's top-rated children's books of 2006 including fiction and nonfiction, biographies, poetry, and folklore.

Presents a comprehensive research and reference guide on over one thousand publications, and contains a wide variety of information on children's and young adult literature, authors, and illustrators.