Table of Contents
Introduction Mike Cadden Karen Coats Roberta Seelinger Trites 1
Part I Theories, Themes, and Issues
The Effect of Affect: Young Adult Literature, Literary Theory, and Emotionalism Michelle Ann Abate 27
Contemplating Childhood and Adolescence in Elie Wiesel's Night Lee A. Talley 36
Youth, Transnationalism, Identity: Young Adult Literature and World Literature Melek Ortabasi 45
Say Their Names: Complicating the Single-Story Narrative of City Kids Carey Applegate 55
Embracing Discomfort and Difference in the Teaching of Young Adult Literature: Notes toward an Unfinished Project Ebony Elizabeth Thomas 62
Teaching Texas Borderlands Young Adult Literature Amy Cummins 72
Language, Identity, and Social Reality in Twenty-First-Century American Indian Young Adult Fiction Margaret Noodin Donna L. Pasternak Laurie Barth Walczak Michael Zimmerman, Jr. 82
A Girls' Studies Approach to Young Adult Literature Katie Kapurch 91
"Re-Presenting" Gender in Multicultural Young Adult Literature Livia Antony Padma Baliga 99
Subverting Normative Paradigms: Teaching Representations of Gender and Queerness in Young Adult Literature Angel Daniel Matos 109
Teaching Transgressive Texts Melanie Goss 120
But I Can't Use This in a Classroom! Teaching Risky/Risqué Young Adult Literature Jon M. Wargo Laura Apol 129
Addressing School Censorship in the Young Adult Literature Course Wendy J. Glenn 139
The Case for Teaching Young Adult Literature Everywhere S. Patrice Jones 150
Surveying Fiction: Teaching Young Adult Literature across the Curriculum Billie Jarvis-Freeman 157
Literary Education That Crosses Borders: Adolescent Fiction in the Upper Grades of Secondary Schools Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer 163
The Pleasures and Impasses of Teaching Young Adult Literature to Polish Graduates in English Studies Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak 172
Part II Genres and Forms
Teaching Young Adult Science Fiction Farah Mendlesohn 181
Representations of Youth, Schooling, and Education in Dystopian Young Adult Novels Elizabeth Marshall 191
Teaching Genre: Fairy Tales and Their Retellings in Young Adult Literature Mary Bricker 200
The Story behind the Story: A Cross-Textual, New Historicist Approach to Historical Fiction Mary Adler 210
Taking a Second Look at First-Person Narration in Young Adult Realistic Fiction Cathryn M. Mercier 222
Peritext and Pedagogy: Supporting Critical Thinking through Young Adult Nonfiction Don Latham Melissa Gross 231
Teaching the Young Adult Verse Narrative Karen Coats 241
Integrating Comics into an Undergraduate Young Adult Literature Course Gwen Athene Tarbox 251
Teaching Adolescent Film: A Cultural-Historical Activity-Theory Approach Meghann Meeusen 261
Part III Assignments
Theorized Storytelling: A Tool for Practicing Reader-Response Criticism Melissa Sara Smith 273
Team-Based Learning and Young Adult Literature Roxanne Harde 280
On Curating Online Anthologies: Not the Traditional Term Paper Camille Buffington Beverly Lyon Clark Eric Esten 287
The Young Adult Critical Edition Project Virginia Zimmerman 294
Sound Tracks of Our Lives: Mix Tapes and Playlists in the Young Adult Literature Classroom Jan C. Susina 300
The Politics of Realism: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Adolescent "Storm and Stress" Katherine Bell 305
Teaching Young Adult Girls' Books: Why Bother? Lauren Byler 312
Part IV Resources
Resources Mike Cadden 319
Notes on Contributors 343
