- 269 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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Thematic Guide to Young Adult Literature
About this book
Contemporary young adult literature is a relatively new genre. This guide provides an overview of the burgeoning field, focusing primarily on fiction. Each of the 32 chapters is devoted to a theme of special significance to young adults, and provides brief critical discussions of several related literary works. Chapters close with lists of fiction for further reading. An appendix groups works according to additional themes, and a selected bibliography cites relevant critical studies.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Abuse, Sexual Violence, and Healing
- Accepting Difference
- Accidents and Adjustments
- Addressing Addiction
- Animals and the Environment
- Beauty’s Meaning
- Breaking Silence, Speaking Out
- Crime, Suicide, and Their Aftermath
- Dating’s Challenges
- Disease and Disability
- Emotional Problems Confronted
- Families, Traditional and Redefined
- Friends Forever?
- Guilty or Innocent?
- Heroism: What Does It Mean to Be a Hero? by Mary Tasillo
- History Is about Young Adults, Too
- Imagined Futures
- Imagined Places
- Insiders and Outsiders
- Jobs: Assuming Adult Responsibility
- Old Tales Retold: Fairy Tales, Legends, Myths
- Older People’s Impact on Our Lives
- Parents’ Absence, Parents’ Presence
- Poverty’s Challenges
- Pregnancy, Parenthood, Abortion
- Religion and Spiritual Life
- School Days
- Sexual Identity, Sexual Desire
- Supernatural and Alien Beings: Confronting the Other
- Survival
- Teammates
- War’s Impact
- Appendix: Additional Themes and Topics
- Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources
- Index
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