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เนื้อหาย่อ : edt and the major theme of this collection of readings is ming Your World. Imaginative literature heightens our of the world around us. Poets and writers of fiction and una use language as a net to capture more of reality than ordinary wcnes do. The aim of this book is to help introduce young readers ade ways in which literature can expand their observation and their dseanding of the world in which they live. Hue basic dimensions of literature are stressed in this book: aa many of the poems and stories in this volume, setting plays an mpurant role. Students are encouraged to take a close look at our wual environment, to become more sensitive to the sights and wads of the natural world. They are invited to take a fresh look at br common familiar things of everyday, at the settings in which sy ordinary people spend their lives. They are asked to widen their wnns and to imagine other times and other places. ain the stories and plays in this book, character plays a central mie The young reader will encounter all kinds of people: young and neal and imaginary, strange and familiar. Young readers will have suey opportunities to study how character reveals itself through Siygue and action. They will broaden their sympathies and extend der understanding of human motives. They will see their own needs adconcems mirrored in those of others. S) Many of the selections in this book reflect a major theme. sbough we want students to become more aware of the technical w.rdiings of literature, we ultimately want them to read it for its hunan significance. We want them to become aware of how a writer duges and interprets our common human experience. We want young waders to understand that they are not alone in asking the questions dey do about life. Some of the favorite themes of adolescent literature ee among the oldest thematic concerns of all literature: effort and wbievement, friendship and antagonism, courage and leadership, bandship and survival. In this volume and in the series as a whole, a special effort has been made to make literary terms clear and useful for today's students. The wms that label and identify the elements of literature do not become a end in themselves, but are presented as true aids for young readers.