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| Special Features | |
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| Preface | |
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| Understanding Young Adults and Books | |
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| Young Adults and Their Reading | |
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| What Is Young Adult Literature? | |
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| A Word about Spoilers | |
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| Stages of Literary Appreciation | |
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| A University of Exeter Study on the Qualities of Good YA Books | |
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| The Honor List: The Best of the Best, 1980-2007 | |
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| Notes | |
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| A Brief History of Young Adult Literature | |
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| 1800-1900: A Century of Purity with a Few Passions | |
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| 1900-1940: From the Safety of Romance to the Beginning of Realism | |
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| 1940-1960: From Certainty to Uncertainty | |
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| 1960-1980: Uncertainty Becomes Turbulence | |
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| Notes | |
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| New Technology, New Attitudes, and New | |
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| Literacies | |
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| A New Kind of Democracy with an Emphasis on Youth | |
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| Critical Literacy | |
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| Visual Literacy for the Eye Generation | |
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| Religious and Ethnic Literacy | |
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| Global Literacy | |
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| Deciding on the Literary Canon | |
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| Teaching Ethnic Literature | |
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| Notes | |
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| Modern Young Adult Reading | |
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| Contemporary Realistic Fiction: From Tragedies to | |
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| Romances | |
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| What Do We Mean by Realism? | |
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| The Modern Problem Novel | |
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| What Are the Problems? | |
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| More Optimistic Novels | |
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| Concluding Comments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Poetry, Drama, Humor, and New Media | |
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| A New Day for Poetry | |
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| The Teaching of Poetry | |
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| Making Drama a Class Act | |
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| Humor Matters | |
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| Comic Books and Graphic Novels | |
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| Video Games as Interactive Literature | |
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| Concluding Comments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Adventure, Sports, Mysteries, and the | |
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| Supernatural | |
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| Adventure Stories | |
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| Sports and the Game of Life | |
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| Mysteries | |
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| Stories of the Supernatural | |
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| Concluding Comments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Fantasy, Science Fiction, Utopias, and | |
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| Dystopias | |
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| What Is Fantasy? | |
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| What Is Science Fiction? | |
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| Utopias and Dystopias | |
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| Concluding Comments | |
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| History and History Makers: Of People and | |
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