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This book is a critical exploration of how mixed-heritage characters (those of mixed race, ethnicity, religion, and/or adoption) and real-life people have been portrayed in young adult fiction and nonfiction. It opens up the discussion of young-adult racial and ethnic identity in literature to recognize, and focus on, those whose heritage straddles boundaries.
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Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature Series Editor: Patty Campbell Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature is intended to continue the body of critical writing established in Twayne’s Young Adult Authors Series and to expand it beyond single-author studies to explorations of genres, multicultural writing, and controversial issues in young adult (YA) reading. Many of the contributing authors of the series are among the leading scholars and critics of adolescent literature, and some are YA novelists themselves. The series is shaped by its editor, Patty Campbell, who is a renowned authority in the field, with a thirty-year background as critic, lecturer, librarian, and teacher of YA literature. Patty Campbell was the 2001 winner of the ALAN Award, given by the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English for distinguished contribution to YA literature. In 1989 she was the winner of the American Library Association’s Grolier Award for distinguished service to young adults and reading. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
What’s So Scary about R. L. Stine? by Patrick Jones, 1998. Ann Rinaldi: Historian and Storyteller, by Jeanne M. McGlinn, 2000. Norma Fox Mazer: A Writer’s World, by Arthea J. S. Reed, 2000. Exploding the Myths:The Truth about Teens and Reading, by Marc Aronson, 2001. The Agony and the Eggplant: Daniel Pinkwater’s Heroic Struggles in the Name of YA Literature, by Walter Hogan, 2001. Caroline Cooney: Faith and Fiction, by Pamela Sissi Carroll, 2001. Declarations of Independence: Empowered Girls in Young Adult Literature, 1990–2001, by Joanne Brown and Nancy St. Clair, 2002. Lost Masterworks of Young Adult Literature, by Connie S. Zitlow, 2002. Beyond the Pale: New Essays for a New Era, by Marc Aronson, 2003. Orson Scott Card:Writer of the Terrible Choice, by Edith S. Tyson, 2003. Jacqueline Woodson: “The Real Thing,” by Lois Thomas Stover, 2003. Virginia Euwer Wolff: Capturing the Music of Young Voices, by Suzanne Elizabeth Reid, 2003. More Than a Game: Sports Literature for Young Adults, by Chris Crowe, 2004.
14. Humor in Young Adult Literature: A Time to Laugh, by Walter Hogan, 2005. 15. Life Is Tough: Guys, Growing Up, and Young Adult Literature, by Rachelle Lasky Bilz, 2004. 16. Sarah Dessen: From Burritos to Box Office, by Wendy J. Glenn, 2005. 17. American Indian Themes in Young Adult Literature, by Paulette F. Molin, 2005. 18. The Heart Has Its Reasons:Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/ Queer Content, 1969–2004, by Michael Cart and Christine A. Jenkins, 2006. 19. Karen Hesse, by Rosemary Oliphant-Ingham, 2005. 20. Graham Salisbury: Island Boy, by David Macinnis Gill, 2005. 21. The Distant Mirror: Reflections on Young Adult Historical Fiction, by Joanne Brown and Nancy St. Clair, 2006. 22. Sharon Creech: The Words We Choose to Say, by Mary Ann Tighe, 2006. 23. Angela Johnson: Poetic Prose, by KaaVonia Hinton, 2006. 24. David Almond: Memory and Magic, by Don Latham, 2006. 25. Aidan Chambers: Master Literary Choreographer, by Betty Greenway, 2006. 26. Passions and Pleasures: Essays and Speeches about Literature and Libraries, by Michael Cart, 2007. 27. Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature, by Alleen Pace Nilsen and Don L. F. Nilsen, 2007. 28. Janet McDonald:The Original Project Girl, by Catherine Ross-Stroud, 2008. 29. Richard Peck:The Past Is Paramount, by Donald R. Gallo and Wendy Glenn, 2008. 30. Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: Girls’ Series Books in Am