Crossroads
Subtitle: classic themes in young adult literature
By: foreword by Robert Cormier.
Contributors: Cormier, Robert.
Series: Points of departure
Publisher: ScottForesman; Scott Foresman & Co
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Glenview, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature -- Study and teaching.
Other titles: Cross-roads
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: value: All in the family. Growing up / Gary Soto ; Mildred / Colby Rodowsky ; Hum it again, Jeremy / Jean Davies Okimoto ; Be-ers and doers / Budge Wilson ; The last word / Judith Ortiz Cofer ; My father in the navy / Judith Ortiz Cofer; value: Who am I? On the bridge / Todd Strasser ; Beauty : when the other dancer is the self / Alice Walker ; Beautiful & cruel / Sandra Cisneros ; Maybe / Eve Merriam ; I, too / Langston Hughes ; Dancer / Vickie Sears ; Being alive / Peter Sieruta; value: Facing the enemy. Priscilla and the wimps / Richard Peck ; We gotta get out of this place / Bernard Edelman, editor ; Where have all the flowers gone? / Pete Seeger ; From The diary of a young girl / Anne Frank ; Future tense / Robert Lipsyte ; The Harringtons' daughter / Lois Lowry; value: Matters of the heart. Checkouts / Cynthia Ryland ; Protestants cry, too / Robert Cormier ; King of the roller rink / Martha Brooks ; So close / Huynh Quang Nhuong ; I hate you, Wallace B. Pokras / Ellen Conford ; What to reply when someone wonders / Claire Barliant ; Mixed singles / Arnold Adoff ; Kidnap poem / Nikki Giovanni; value: Right or wrong. Waters of gold / Laurence Yep ; I, hungry Hannah Cassandra Glen / Norma Fox Mazer ; Lose now, pay later / Carol Farley ; Stealing / Floyd Salas ; Becoming a "nonalien" / Yoshiko Uchida ; Destination : Tule Lake Relocation Center, May 20, 1942 / James Mitsui; value: Journeys. The road goes ever on and on / J.R.R. Tolkien ; Night journey / Theodore Roethke ; A trip on the Staten Island ferry / Audre Lorde ; The journey / Duane BigEagle ; Stupid / Gary Paulsen ; The river of ice / Doreen Rappaport ; The inn of lost time / Lensey Namioka ; The legacy / Walter Dean Myers.