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Author Cart, Michael.

Title From romance to realism : 50 years of growth and change in young adult literature / by Michael Cart.

Publication Info. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [1996]
©1996

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 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  813.09 CAR    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 312 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-300) and index.
Contents That was then: From Sue Barton to the sixties -- Sixties and the rise of realism -- Seventies: a golden age? -- Eighties: the pendulum swings -- This is now: Nineties and the future -- Time for relevance, and revelation -- Sex and other shibboleths -- Why we read, and other imponderables.
Subject Young adult fiction, American -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Teenagers -- United States -- Books and reading.
Young adults in literature.
Romanticism -- United States.
Teenagers in literature.
Realism in literature.
ISBN 0060242892
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