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- Description
- Table of Contents
- About the author
- Reviews
This book is available in e-book format for libraries and individuals through aggregators and other distributors—ask your current vendor or contact us for more information. Examination copies are available for instructors who are interested in adopting this title for course use.
Cart's authoritative survey is already a go-to text for students of literary studies, teachers, and YA staff. In this new edition he gives it a thorough update to make it even more relevant and comprehensive. Surveying the landscape of YA lit both past and present, this book
- sketches in the origins of literature targeted at young adults;
- shows how the best of the genre has evolved to deal with subjects every bit as complex as its audience;
- closely examines teen demographics, literacy, audiobooks, the future of print, and other key topics;
- includes updated treatment of best-selling authors like John Green, Suzanne Collins, and Veronica Roth, plus interviews with leaders in the field;
- presents new and expanded coverage of perennially popular genre fiction, including horror, sci fi, and dystopian fiction;
- offers an updated overview of LGBTQ literature for young adults, including Intersex;
- covers such commercial trends as adult purchasers of YA books and the New Adult phenomenon; and
- features abundant bibliographic material to aid in readers' advisory and collection development.
Cart's up-to-date coverage makes this the perfect resource for YA librarians who want to sharpen their readers' advisory skills, educators and teachers who work with young people, and anyone else who wants to understand where YA lit has been and where it's heading.
Preface
Part One That Was Then
Chapter One
- From Sue Barton to the Sixties
Chapter Two
- The Sixties and the Seventies
Chapter Three
- The Eighties—Something Old, Something New
Chapter Four
- The Early Nineties
Chapter Five
- The Rest of the Nineties
Part Two This Is Now
Chapter Six
- A New Literature for a New Millennium?
Chapter Seven
- Genre on the Agenda
Chapter Eight
- Romancing the Retail
Chapter Nine
- So, How Adult Is Young Adult?
Chapter Ten
- Meanwhile, Back in the Real World
Chapter Eleven
- Reality Redux
Chapter Twelve
- Sex and Other Shibboleths
Chapter Thirteen
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Literature
Chapter Fourteen
- Still the Controversies Continue: Book Challenges and Censorship, Oh My
Chapter Fifteen
- The Viz Biz
Chapter Sixteen
- The New Nonfiction
Chapter Seventeen
- Of Books and Bytes
References
Appendix
About the Author
Index
”With the recent trends in the field, it is no wonder that YA expert Cart has updated his already classic reference on YA literature with this third edition … His insights continue to inform and delight the reader."
— Booklist
”The third edition of this enjoyably readable work—a high-level, research-based view of the field, rather than criticism of individual works or themes—features a good deal of new and revised content that should be of value to bibliographers as well as patrons ... readers should find this a shrewd and thorough survey of the YA literature landscape."
— ARBA
”Comprehensive and substantial, and the sheet amount of titles and authors used to illustrate the extent and diversity of YA literature is invaluable … this book is a highly recommended resource."
— VOYA
”This definitive text on young adult literature is for teachers, students, and people who just love to read about literary genres. The book has a reference go-to quality as well as a pick-me-up-and-just-read-it quality … Reading this book is not only a walk down memory lane but a pathfinder for what to expect in today’s fast-paced, internet-driven, and ever-changing world of adolescents, however they are defined and whatever their ages."
— Catholic Library World