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***Volume 2 of 4 Only*** "Masterplots II, Juvenile and Young Adult Fiction", is the 7th set in the Masterplots II series, inaugurated in 1986 with the 4-volume "American Fiction Series." This volume contains criticisms and reviews for 480 stories, of which 445 of them are covered by the Masterplots (II) series for the first time. Books for readers age 10 to 18 form the focus here (picture books and other books for children under 10 fall outside the scope of this set), and several categories governed many of the choices of these titles. The editors' primary concern was to include as many as possible of those classics of the genre which had never before received coverage in this series. Nearly all of the Newbery Medal Winners appear Hugh Lofting's "The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle" (1923, Newbery Medal), Elizabeth Coatsworth's "The Cat Who Went to Heaven" (1930), Armstrong Sperry's "Call it Courage" (1941), Esther Forbes's "Johnny Tremain" (1944), Elizabeth George Speare's "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" (1959), Elizabeth Borton de Trevino's "I, Juan de Pareja" (1966), Mildred D. Taylor's "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" (1977), and Joan W. Blos's "A Gathering of Days" (1980) are among the 43 Newbery Medalists represented. Old favorites such as "Lassie Come-Home", Little House on the Prairie", "Little Lord Fauntleroy", the Mary Poppins Series, "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood", My Friend Flicka", "National Velvet", "Old Yeller" , "Pippi Longstockings", "Pollyanna", "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farms", "The Secret Garden", " Winnie-the-Pooh", and "The Wizard of Oz" are joined by newer works rapidly attaining the status of Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", E. B. White's "Charlotte's Web", and Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate War", for example.
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The latest addition to the now-massive Masterplots sets describes 760 poems from 275 poets who wrote over the past 1300 years. Brief entries effectively summarize and analyze many important poems, such as "Lycidas," "The Windhover," and "Birches," that are frequently assigned to high school and lower-level college students. They will learn a lot from these volumes, though advanced students will need more than this work seeks to provide. The appendixes include a bibliography of book-length studies on many of the authors included, but most readers requiring additional criticism will be better served by the studies of individual poems accessed through such sets as Poetry Explication (G.K. Hall, 1980) or Literary Criticism Index ( LJ 11/1/84). However, this expensive set is one of the most useful in the series and is certainly an important purchase for libraries committed to the Masterplots concept.
- Peter Dollard, Alma Coll. Lib., Mich.
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