Armstrong, William H.
Sounder
. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969.
Bringuier, Jean-Claude.
Conversations with Jean Piaget
. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980.
This book is a series of personal interviews that Bringuier conducted with Jean Piaget. It is very informative, yet highly entertaining.
Dalsimer, Katherine.
Female Adolescence: Psychoanalytic Reflections
on Literature
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
Dalsimer looks at a variety of female adolescent heroines in classic pieces of literature such as
Romeo and Juliet
and Jane Austen’s
Persuasion
. She discusses the different stages of adolescence while analyzing the main characters and their behavior.
Fitzhugh, Louise.
Nobody’s Family Is Going to Change
. New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1974.
Ginsberg, Herbert and Opper, Sylvia.
Piaget’s Theory of Intellectual
Development
. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979.
An excellent text that explains in detail all of Piaget’s ideas about how people learn.
Purves, Alan C. and Monson, Dianne L.
Experiencing Children’s Literature
. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1984.
This is an interesting book written for teachers to help them teach literature to young people in a more creative and meaningful manner.
Speare, Elizabeth George.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
. New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1958.
Wadsworth, Barry J.
Piaget for the Classroom
. New York: Longman, Inc., 1978.
The practical application of Piaget’s theories in the classroom is presented here in a very helpful way by Barry J. Wadsworth.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls.
By the Shores of Silver Lake
. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1939.