Volume Reading

In addition to the professional literature I will be sorting through, I also have a stacks and stacks of young adult books that I have gathered.  Most of the books I’m planning on looking at were published in the last 10 years, because I really want to focus on the developing trends in contemporary realistic fiction.

Guy in Real Life by Steve Brezenoff

Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith

The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Good Kings Bad Kings: A Novel by Susan Nussbaum

We Were Liars by e. lockhart

Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy

The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy by Kate Hattemer

The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth LaBan

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Probability of Miracles: A Novel by Wendy Wunder

This One Summer by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki

Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg

Reality Boy by A.S. King

Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider

Winger by Andrew Smith

Zac and Mia by A.J. Betts

Sway by Kat Spears

Breathe, Annie, Breath by Miranda Kenneally

Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King

Aristotle and Date Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The Anatomy of a Misfit by Andrea Portes

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Falling into Place by Amy Zhang

This list is, of course, in no way exhaustive, but these are the materials that I grabbed while I was at the Monroe County Public Library.  I probably won’t be able to read all of these, but I’m going to work hard to make my way through as many as possible.  I am also pretty flexible and will be adding and removing materials to my list as I see fit.

So much reading

After some searching, I’ve gathered a list of resources:

• Bucher, Katherine Toth, and KaaVonia Hinton. Young Adult Literature : Exploration, Evaluation, and Appreciation. Third edition.
• Cart, Michael. Young Adult Literature : From Romance to Realism. Chicago: American Library Association, 2010.
• Day, Sara K. Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy In Contemporary American Young Adult Literature. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
• Flanagan, Caitlin. “What girls want: a series of vampire novels illuminates the complexities of female adolescent desire.” The Atlantic 2008: Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 25 Nov. 2014.
• Hayn, Judith, and Jeffrey S Kaplan.Teaching Young Adult Literature Today : Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012.
• Hilton, Mary, and Maria Nikolajeva. Contemporary Adolescent Literature and Culture : the Emergent Adult. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012.
• James, Kathryn. Death, Gender and Sexuality In Contemporary Adolescent Literature. New York: Routledge, 2009.
• Kiefer, Barbara Zulandt, and Charlotte S Huck. Charlotte Huck’s Children’s Literature. 10th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2010.
• Richards, Chris. Forever Young : Essays On Young Adult Fictions. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.
• Stacked

Okay, so I am slightly overwhelmed (that seems to the common theme so far for my inquiry project) by the amount of material to read.  However, I was really excited to get my hands on Cart’s Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism.I mean, look at that cover! In this expanded revision of his 1996 book, Cart shows how the best of contemporary YA literature has evolved throughout history and previews current and developing trends.  The cover promises the work is “insightful” and “humorous,” so I have high hopes.