Tamora Pierce - A Student Companion

Informationen zum Autor BONNIE L. KUNZEL is co-author of First Contact: A Reader’s Selection of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the Youth Services Consultant for the New Jersey State Library, and past president of the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association. She lives in Somerset, NJ. DEBORAH A. WOOTEN earned her doctorate at New York University, has published with School Library Journal, and is a Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Diana Tixier Herald , winner of the Margaret E. Monroe Library Adult Services Award, is program and outreach manager at Delta County Libraries, Delta, CO, and an author, readers' advisory consultant, workshop presenter, and speaker. Bonnie Kunzel is Youth Services Coordinator, New Jersey State Library, and is former president of ALA's Young Adult Services Association (YALSA). Susan Fichtelberg has been a children's librarian for 27 years. Klappentext Tamora Pierce has a large following of teen and adult readers, who savor her fantasy novels with strong female characters. This volume provides her readers and fans with additional insights into her life and work. The first section provides a biographical chapter and literary heritage. The second and third sections analyze the Tales of Tortall and the Magic Circle Sagas as a whole, providing details into the characters and settings of each. The final section of the book, Perspectives, includes both a section on literary techniques along with an interview of Tamora Pierce herself. Appendices include a section on Power Female Heroes, and Fantasy Adventures.Novels include: *The Song of the Lioness Quartet *The Immortals Quartet *The Protector of the Small Quartet *The Trickster Duology *The Magic Circle Quartet *The Circle Opens Quartet *The Will of the Empress Zusammenfassung Appendices include a section on Power Female Heroes! and Fantasy Adventures. Novels include: *The Song of the Lioness Quartet *The Immortals Quartet *The Protector of the Small Quartet *The Trickster Duology *The Magic Circle Quartet *The Circle Opens Quartet *The Will of the Empress ...

Product details

• Authors: Susan Fichtelberg, Fichtelberg Susan, Bonnie Kunzel, Bonnie Fichtelberg Kunzel, Kunzel Bonnie
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2007
• EAN: 9780313336607
• ISBN: 978-0-313-33660-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Teen Reads: Student Companions; Teen Reads: Student Companions to Young Adult Literature; Teen Reads: Student Companions; Teen Reads: Student Companions to Young Adult Literature
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, The arts, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Literary Criticism & Collections, Educational: English Literature, Educational: First / native language: Literature studies