Young adult literature and culture / edited by Harry Edwin Eiss.
This book offers a multifaceted approach to the world of young adults, everything from Ray Schrock's use of Walter Dean Myers' sports stories to discuss race relations and cultural politics to Joyce Litton's analysis of the highly popular Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Quartet. The...
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- From politics to personal expression: representations of sport in Walter Dean Myers, Young adult works / Ray Schrock
- The nature of female friendship in the sisterhood of traveling pants quartet / Joyce Litton
- The path to Sedna / Joel Ruddinger
- The Isis trilogy / Harry Edwin Eiss
- Young adult achievers: three stories of science fair projects / Margaret Best and Susann deVries
- Outer space, inner worlds: science fiction and the adolescent imagination / Sally Sugarman
- Let them read books! / Alethea K. Helbig
- The evolution of public education in China since Confucius / Jerry Loving.