The rebellious teen narrating J.D. Salinger’s classic novel of arrested development still speaks to us. But should we be listening?
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A should book features three concepts for rethinking masculinity: relationality, vulnerability, and inclination.
In 2005, Twilight’s adolescent female readership made it a target for mockery. Today, that same demographic is the most coveted in publishing.
The generation that found comfort in the Girls in Love series as teens are likely to find the same comfort as adults in the fifth instalment.
Amid calls to ban certain books from libraries and schools, research shows that students benefit when they have the ability to choose which materials they want to read.
Royal romances have been popular teen fantasies since The Princess Diaries – and earlier. Now, smash-hits like Red, White and Royal Blue are part of a wider queer young adult fiction boom.
Sensitivity edits benefit copyright holders, who wish to keep less tasteful elements of the works they control out of the public eye.
Simmone Howell pays tribute to the life and work of ‘kind and hilarious gem’ Gabrielle Williams, acclaimed Australian author of young adult fiction, who died on Saturday.
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Lecturer in Education (Literacy and Language), Deakin University
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Senior Research Fellow (Postdoc), Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Law, University of Montana; Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Professor of Literacy, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Associate Professor in Popular Fiction, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in English, University of Exeter