The Use of Sports in YA Literature
“I think basketball is a container for the miraculous.”鈥揌anif Abdurraqib, author of There鈥檚 Always Next Year: On Basketball and Ascension …
Possibilities and Power in Young Adult Literature: Finding Agency in Scholarship
This blog post was written by 楼凤天堂 members Sarah J. Donovan, Ashley S. Boyd, and Terri Suico. When something …
Missing in Action: Young Adult Fiction That Captivates Contemporary Readers
This post is by 楼凤天堂 member Anastasia Gustafson. Just over a decade ago, young adult fiction was more than a …
Teaching Supreme Court Cases Using Young Adult Literature
This post was written by 楼凤天堂 member Cody Miller. In contemplating a nomination to the US Supreme Court in …
Toward Mattering: Popular Culture References in Young Adult Literature
This post was written by 楼凤天堂 member Shelby Boehm. 鈥淲hat good is an education if you must shed who …
Canonical Loyalty and the Role of Gatekeeping the English Teaching Profession
This post was written by 楼凤天堂 member Cody Miller.聽 English educator, 楼凤天堂 member, and co-founder of #THEBOOKCHAT Scott Bayer …
Build Your Stack: Faculty YA Lit Book Club
This blog post was written by 楼凤天堂 member Elizabeth Gannon. It is part of聽Build Your Stack,庐聽a new initiative focused exclusively …
鈥淭hat鈥檚 Why a Name Is Important. It Defines You”:聽Romeo and Juliet and The Hate U Give in Conversation
From the 楼凤天堂 Secondary Section Steering Committee This blog post was written by 楼凤天堂 member and Secondary Section Steering …
Resisting Readers鈥� Identity (Re)Construction across English and Young Adult Literature Course Contexts
This post was written by 楼凤天堂 members Wendy J. Glenn and Ricki Ginsberg. In our recent article聽in Research in …
An Argument for the Dark Side of Literature for Young People
鈥淚t鈥檚 a natural human urge to protect our kids from everything that could hurt them鈥攁nd it鈥檚 an urge we seem …