Combating Hate Through Young Adult Literature

Young Adult Women’s Literature

Forging Global Perspectives through Post-colonial Young Adult Literature

national settings was higher than they expected, the novels were “culturally generic with the characters’ ethnicity used only for descriptive purposes rather than functioning to depict insights about the culture or cultural practice” (p. 566). Like Cart (2010), Koss and Teale (2009) found that “the majority of international countries and characters portrayed were white and European” (p. 569). T...

Gender Issues in Young Adult Literature

hether we are expanding our lives through knowledge or imagination, there is no doubt that reading plays a crucial role in this process. Largely because of this, reading continues to be one of the most highly debated components in the education of our children. When they are young we argue the best way to teach children to read. Once we’ve taught them how, the arguments turn to the best way to ...

New Perspectives in Young Adult Literature

our ability to read everything about a subject we love—young adult literature—is impossible at best. Too often, we give a cursory glance to that we favor, hoping someday, we will have the time and the inclination to read all that we missed, and then some. The purpose of this column—The Research Connection—is to help alleviate this very concern. True, you want to read every young adult novel tha...

Adolescent Reflections about Controversial Young Adult Literature

“Are we going to read aloud today?” Kevin 1 asks immediately upon entering the classroom. “Of course,” I answer, but his impish grin warrants suspicion. Kevin’s outward enthusiasm for reading has been a recent development since we began the book. I’ve even seen him with the book outside of class, flipping pages to read ahead of the class. Then it dawns on me. Quickly, I recall what occurs in to...