Table of Contents
Volume 40
Number 2
Winter 2013
Steven Bickmore
Jacqueline Bach
Melanie Hundley
Jeffrey Kaplan
From the Editors
3
Call for Manuscripts
5
Celebrating the Past/Envisioning the Future:
6
The Next 40 Years of ALAN The President’s Connection
Justin Scholes
Jon Ostenson
E. Sybil Durand
Adrienne Goth
Shanetia P. Clark
Amy Bright
Understanding the Appeal of Dystopian Young
Adult Fiction
11
Forging Global Perspectives through Post-colonial
Young Adult Literature
21
Adolescent Males’ Valued Texts: 29
Shaping and Making Their Identities Public
Writing Bridges: 37
How Writers Scaffold Mature Content in YA Literature
Ricki Ginsberg
Voices from the Classroom: 47
Young Adult Literature in the 21st Century
Michele D. Castleman
Erin F. Reilly-Sanders
Angie Beumer Johnson
Laurel Haynes
Jessie Nastasi
Melanie Hundley
Complicating Killing in Young Adult Fiction
53
Probing Text Complexity: 60
Reflections on Reading The Giver as Pre-teens, Teens, and Adults
Clip and File
A1-A8
Bill Broz
The Undergraduate YA Lit Course: One Iteration
69
sj Miller
AP Gatekeeping: Exploring the Myths of Using YAL in
an AP English Classroom The Research Connection
79
Able Texts: 85
Beverley Brenna
Breaking Stereotypes with/in Children’s Novels The Author’s Connection
Amanda Havard
Immersed in Stories: 89
A New Journey into Reading The Author’s Connection
Stories from the Field
94
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