Encountering Enchantment - A Guide to Speculative Fiction for Teens

The most current and complete guide to a favorite teen genre, this book maps current releases along with perennial favorites, describing and categorizing fantasy, paranormal, and science fiction titles published since 2006.

Speculative fiction continues to be of consuming interest to teens, so if you work with that age group, keeping up with the explosion of new titles in this category is critical. Likewise, understanding the many genres and subgenres into which these titles fall-wizard fantasy, alternate worlds, fantasy mystery, dystopian fiction, science fantasy, and more-is also key if you want to motivate young readers and direct them to books they'll enjoy. Written to help you master a complex array of genres and titles, this guide includes more than 1,500 books, most published since 2006, organizing them by genre, subgenre, and theme. Subgenres growing in popularity such as "steampunk" are highlighted to keep you current with the latest trends.

The guide will serve three audiences. Of course, you can turn to it as you help your teenage patrons select the books and genres that will interest them most. Teen readers, whether devoted fans or newcomers, can use it themselves to find titles and subgenres they might like. In addition, the guide will help teachers and parents match students with the right books.

List of contents

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Wizard Fantasy

Chapter Two: Epic Fantasy

Chapter Three: Myth and Legend Fantasy

Chapter Four: Fairy Tale Fantasy

Chapter Five: Alternate and Parallel Worlds

Chapter Six: The Faerie Realm

Chapter Seven: Fantasy Romance

Chapter Eight: Fantasy Mystery

Chapter Nine: Creature Fantasy: Fabulous Beasts and Talking Animals

Chapter Ten: Time Travel Fantasy

Chapter Eleven: Science Fantasy

Chapter Twelve: Steampunk

Chapter Thirteen: Science Fiction

Chapter Fourteen: The Dark Side: Paranormal and Horror

Appendix A: Speculative Fiction Audiobooks

Appendix B: Speculative Fiction on DVD

Appendix C: Book Club Titles

Appendix D: Diversity in Speculative Fiction

Appendix E: Awards

Resources

Author Index

Title Index

Subject Index

Award-Winning Titles Index

About the author

Susan Fichtelberg, a youth librarian for the Woodbridge Public Library in New Jersey for 19 years, is an avid fantasy fan and presents on this topic at national and regional conferences.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Fichtelberg, Fichtelberg Susan
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2015
• EAN: 9781610691130
• ISBN: 978-1-61069-113-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Weight: 1077 g
• Illustrations: 3 bw illus
• Series: Genreflecting Advisory Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Children's & teenage literature studies, Bibliographies, catalogues, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general