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YAL - Young Adult Literature

 

Units for Books

 

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie
Subjects: Reading, Language Arts
Grade Level: 9th
Posted: 2010
School: World Language High School

Al Capone Does My Shirts

by Gennifer Choldenko
Subjects: Language Arts, Math, Technology, Social Studies
Grade Level: 7th
Posted: 2006
Multiple units
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2005/2006

 

Always Running

by Luis Rodriguez
Subjects: English, Language Arts
Grade Level: 10th
Posted: 2010
School: World Language High School

American Plague

by Jim Murphy

with Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson
Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
Grade Level: 7th
Posted: YAL Conference March 2006
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2005/2006

 

Among the Hidden

by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: Middle School
Posted: 2006

 

Ask Me No Questions

by Marina Budhos
Subjects: English, Language Arts, Social Studies
Grade Level: 8th - 10th

Multiple Units

Posted: YAL Conference October 2008
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2008/2009

 

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing

by M. T. Anderson
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: 8th - 10th
Posted: YAL Conference October 2008
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2008/2009

 

Becoming Naomi Leon

by Pam Munoz Ryan
Subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies
Grade Level: 8th
Posted: YAL Conference March 2007
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2006/2007

 

Birchbark House and Love Medicine

by Louise Erdrich
Subjects: Language Arts, Math, Technology, Social Studies
Grade Level: 7th
Posted: YAL Conference March 2007
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2006/2007

 

Briar Rose

by Jane Yolen
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: 8th
Posted: 2006

 

Breaking Through

by Francisco Jimnez
Subjects: Spanish
Grade Level: 9th - 11th
Posted: 2010
School: Mather
High School

Bronx Masquerade

by Nikki Grimes
Subjects: English
Grade Level: 9th
Posted: 2010
School: Foreman
High School

Chasing Vermeer

by Blue Balliett
Subjects: Language Arts, Math, Technology, Social Studies
Grade Level: 7th
Posted: 2006
Multiple units
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2005/2006

Coming of Age in the 21st Century

by Mary Frosch
Subjects: English, World Literature
Grade Level: 12th
Posted: 2010
School: World Language High School

the curious incident of the dog in the night-time

by Mark Haddon
Subjects: Language Arts, Art
Grade Level: Middle School
Posted: YAL Conference March 2006

CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2005/2006

Death of a Salesman

by Tennessee Williams
Subject: American Literature
Grade Level: 11th
Posted: 2010

Fever

by Laurie Halse Anderson
See
American Plague

 

A Girl named Disaster

by Nancy Farmer
See
The Skin I'm In

Gathering Blue

by Lois Lowry
Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
Grade Level: Middle School
Posted: 2006

 

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams
See
Death of a Salesman

The Golden Compass

by Philip Pullman
Subjects: English, Language Arts and Science
Grade Level: 9th
Posted: YAL Conference October 2007
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2007/2008

Handbook for Boys

by Walter Dean Myers
Subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies
Grade Level: Middle School
Posted: YAL Conference March 2007
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2006/2007

An Inconvenient Truth

by Al Gore
Subjects: English, Language Arts and Science
Grade Level: 9th
Posted: YAL Conference October 2007
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2007/2008

The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan
Subjects: Language Arts and Drama
Grade Level: 6th - 9th
Posted: YAL Conference October 2007
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2007/2008

Little Brother

by Cory Doctorow

CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2009/2010

Living Up the Street

by Gary Soto
Subjects: English, Special Education
Grade Level: 9th
Posted: 2010
School: Kelly
High School

Magic Moments

by Olga Loya

Subjects: Language Arts, Social Science, Art
Grade Level: Middle School
Posted: YAL Conference March 2006
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2005/2006

Night

by Elie Weisel
See
Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes

 

Our Town

by Thorton Wilder
See
Death of a Salesman

Persepolis

by Mariane Satrapi
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: 8th - 10th
Posted: YAL Conference October 2008
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2008/2009

 

Rozdina

by Karen Cushman
See
Worth / Rozdina

 

Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes

by Eleanor Coerr

with Night by Elie Weisel
Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
Grade Level: Middle School
Posted: 2006

 

Sahara Special

by Esme Codell
Subjects: Language Arts, Dance
Grade Level: Middle School
Posted: YAL Conference March 2006
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2005/2006

 

The Secret Life of Bees

by Sue Monk Kidd
Subjects: Language Arts, Social Science, Science
Grade Level: Middle School
Posted: YAL Conference March 2006
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2005/2006

Units for Books

Seedfolks

by Paul Fleischman
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: Middle School and High School
Posted: 2006
Multiple units

 

Shattering Glass

by Gail Giles
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: Middle School
Posted: 2006

 

A Single Shard

by Linda Sue Park
Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Technology
Grade Level: Middle School
Posted: 2006

 

The Skin I'm In

by Sharon Flake

with A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
Subjects: English, Language Arts and Social Science and Health
Grade Level: 6th - 9th
Posted: YAL Conference October 2007
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2007/2008

Speak

by Laurie Halse Anderson
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: Middle School
Posted: 2006

 

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

by Chris Crutcher
Subjects: Social/Emotional, Reading & Literature, Psychology, Sociology
Grade Level: 9th - 12th
Posted: 2010

School: Mather High School

Stuck in Neutral

by Terry Trueman
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: Middle School
Posted: 2006

 

Sunrise Over Fallujah

by Walter Dean Myers
Subjects: Social Studies, English
Grade Level: 11th
Posted: 2010
School: Social Justice
High School

True Believer

by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: 8th
Posted: 2006

 

Upstate

by Kalisha Buckhanon
Subjects: Legal System
Grade Level: 11th - 12th
Posted: 2010

We Rode the Orphan Trains

by Andrea Warren
Worth by A. LaFaye
Subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies
Grade Level: 8th
Posted: YAL Conference March 2007
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2006/2007

 

Witness

by Karen Hesse
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: Middle School
Posted: 2006 & 2010
Multiple units

 

Worth

by A. LaFaye

with Rozdina by Karen Cushman
Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
Grade Level: 6th
Posted: March 2007
See also We Rode the Orphan Trains