Young adult literature : from romance to realism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cart, Michael
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : American Library Association, 2010
Subjects:	Young adult fiction, American > History and criticism. Young adult literature > History and criticism. Teenagers > Books and reading > United States. Teenagers in literature.

Table of Contents:

From Sue Barton to the sixties : what's in a name? and other uncertainties
The sixties and the seventies : the rise of realism and the first golden age
The eighties : something old, something new : the rise of the paperback series, multicultural literature, and political correctness
The early nineties : a near-death experience
The rest of the nineties : revival and renaissance
A new literature for a new millennium? The renaissance continues
Romancing the retail : of series, superstores, Harry Potter, and such
So, how adult is young adult? The crossover conundrum
Back in the real world : immigration, mixed race, and other new realities of teen life
Sex and other shibboleths : YA comes of age, and not a moment too soon
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender literature : the controversies continue
The viz biz : transforming the funnies
The eyes have it : other visual forms : photoessays and the new nonfiction
Of books and bytes : multiple literacies, the death of print, and other imponderables.