Critical Explorations of Young Adult Literature

Victor Malo-Juvera is Associate Professor of English education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA.Crag Hill is Associate Professor of English education at the University of Oklahoma, USA.

• Preface1. The Young Adult Canon: A Literary Solar System Victor Malo-Juvera and Crag HillSection I: The Center of the Canon2. The Giver in Our Midst: Grounding Dystopia as Total InstitutionsMichael Macaluso, Katie Macaluso, and Darby Evans3. “It’s Easier not to Say Anything”: Speak through the Lens of Strategic FormalismCori McKenzie4. “Do You See a [Hu]man Sitting Here?”: Signifying in MonsterKaaVonia Hinton5. "Lost, Squared": Reservation Realism and the Borderless ImaginaryAngela SparksSection II: Seminal Works6. From Maven to Mentor: The Archetypal Coaches of The ContenderLuke Rodesiler and Mark Lewis7. “Peace at Any Price”: A Marxist Reading of The Chocolate WarWilliam C. Sewell8. Complex Bodies, Complex Decisions: Female Sexuality in Judy Blume’s Forever...Julianna E. Lopez Kershen9. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Disrupting the “All-White World of Children’s Books”Chris Crowe and Jace Brown10. More than Esperanza: Revisiting Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez 11. Dominating Gender: Female-Controlled, Decolonizing Power and The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Rachel L. CarazoSection III: Contemporaries 12. "The Earth is Speaking to Us": An Ecocritical Approach to StargirlMerrilyne Lundahl13. Parties, Pranks, and Privilege: Reading Looking for Alaska through the Lens of Critical WhitenessBrandon Sams and Ashley Boyd 14. Attending to Cultural Models in Marjane Satrapi’s PersepolisSean Connors15. “So what am I supposed to do now?”: Border Crossing in American Born ChineseLisa Scherff16. The Literacy Thief: A New Literacy Studies Analysis of The Book ThiefMary McCulley