| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xii, 310 pages ; 26 cm |
| Summary |
"In this new edition: new and expanded treatment of genre fiction, including dystopian literature and steampunk; a new, detailed examination of the retail market for young adults, including such dramatic new trends and features as the appearance of the New Adult audience, the adult consumer, and the significant impact on the market of such best sellers as John Green, Suzanne Collins, Veronica Roth, and Rainbow Rowell; interviews with leaders in the field; updated and expanded coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex fiction; new chapters focusing on teen demographics, multicultural literature, and teen literacy, including multiple literacies; coverage of the renascence of realistic fiction; coverage of new trends in graphic novels; revised treatment of the burgeoning audiobook field; discussion of the future of print; attention to the importance to the field of motion pictures being made from young adult novels; [and] expanded attention given to narrative and creative nonfiction"-- Preface, pages xi-xii. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
From Sue Barton to the sixties -- The sixties and seventies -- The eighties : something old, something new -- The early nineties -- The rest of the nineties -- A new literature for a new millennium? -- Genre on the agenda -- Romancing the retail -- So, how adult is young adult? -- Meanwhile, back in the real world -- Reality redux -- Sex and other shibboleths -- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender literature -- Still the controversies continue -- The viz biz -- The new nonfiction -- Of books and bytes. |
| Subject |
Young adult fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Young adult literature -- History and criticism.
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Teenagers -- Books and reading -- United States.
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Teenagers in literature.
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Teenagers -- Books and reading.
(OCoLC)fst01145561
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Teenagers in literature. (OCoLC)fst01145671
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Young adult fiction, American. (OCoLC)fst01183089
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Young adult literature. (OCoLC)fst01183118
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Literature.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Cart, Michael. Young adult literature. Third edition. Chicago : ALA Neal-Schuman, 2016 9780838914755 (DLC) 2016014881 |
| ISBN |
9780838914625 (paperback) |
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0838914624 (paperback) |
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9780838914755 (pdf) |
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9780838914762 (epub) |
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9780838914779 ( Kindle) |
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