scholarly journals Book Review: Encourage Reading from the Start

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Lisa Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
School Library ◽  
World Views ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
Library Journal ◽  
Patricia Polacco

Fans of Pat R. Scales are already familiar with her work for both Book List and School Library Journal. As a collection of her articles, essays, and interviews, Encourage Reading from the Startsupports librarians working with children’s and young adult literature. In “How Reading Shapes Us,” Scales discusses how the concept of “family” has evolved into a more diverse definition. Scales highlights authors, like Patricia Polacco, who have built a career drawing on family stories, leading readers to expand their world views through exposure to both familiar and diverse familial structures.

scholarly journals Book Review of Chris Crowe’s More Than a Game

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-104
Author(s):  
TERRI SUICO
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Insight Into

Chris Crowe’s More Than a Game: Sports Literature for Young Adults gives young adult sports literature the attention it deserves. Published in 2004, just three years after Michael Cart (2001) declared “a new golden age of young adult literature” (p. 96), Crowe’s work appears as part of the Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature series and offers further insight into this pervasive if sometimes overlooked field of YAL.

scholarly journals Book Review: Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism, 3rd ed.

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 299
Author(s):  
Leanne Cheek
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Ya Literature ◽  
Accessible Volume ◽  
The Subject

This is a timely, updated treatment of the subject of young adult (YA) literature. Cart has a wealth of experience and knowledge in YA literature, having founded and chaired the Printz Committee and authored or edited twenty-three books. He deftly organizes that knowledge into a highly accessible volume for librarians.

Book Review: Strategic Selection of Children's and Young Adult Literature

2013 ◽  
Vol 193 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
Laura M. JimÉnez ◽  
Kristin K. A. Mcilhagga
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Selection Of

scholarly journals “A Friend, A Nimble Mind, and a Book”: Girls’ Literary Criticism in Seventeen Magazine, 1958–1969

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
JILL ANDERSON
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young People ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Intellectual Work ◽  
Intellectual Labor ◽  
Important Publication ◽  
Conventional Models

This article argues that postwar Seventeen magazine, a publication deeply invested in enforcing heteronormativity and conventional models of girlhood and womanhood, was in fact a more complex and multivocal serial text whose editors actively sought out, cultivated, and published girls’ creative and intellectual work. Seventeen's teen-authored “Curl Up and Read” book review columns, published from 1958 through 1969, are examples of girls’ creative intellectual labor, introducing Seventeen's readers to fiction and nonfiction which ranged beyond the emerging “young-adult” literature of the period. Written by young people – including thirteen-year-old Eve Kosofsky (later Sedgwick) – who perceived Seventeen to be an important publication venue for critical work, the “Curl Up and Read” columns are literary products in their own right, not simply juvenilia. Seventeen provided these young authors the opportunity to publish their work in a forum which offered girl readers and writers opportunities for intellectual development and community.

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