The critical merits of young adult literature: coming of age

Foreword: Coming of age with young adult literature through critical analysis / Steven T. Bickmore

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Young adult literature and scholarship come of age / Crag Hill

More than a "time of storm and stress": the complex depiction of adolescent identity in contemporary young adult novels / Janet Alsup

Sexuality as risk and resistance in young adult literature / Mark A. Lewis & E. Sybil Durand

Hungry like the wolf: gender non-conformity in YAL / sj Miller

"The worst form of violence": unpacking portrayals of poverty in young adult novels / Janine Darragh & Crag Hill

"I was carrying the burden of my race": reading matters of race and hope in YA literature by Walter Dean Myers and Sherman Alexie / KaaVonia Hinton & Rodrigo Joseph Rodríguez

Creating an eco-warrior: wilderness and identity in the dystopian world of Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series / Christopher Arigo

The emigrant, immigrant, and trafficked experiences of adolescents: young adult literature as window and mirror / Linda T. Parsons & Angela Rietschlin

Annotated bibliography / Laura Powers

End points / Crag Hill.