Enhancing the self-esteem of undergraduates in a Malaysian higher education institution through bibliotherapy by Lourdunathan, Josephine, Idris, Khairuddin, Mokhtar, Halimatun Halaliah, Vethamani, Malachi Edwin

“…The purpose of this study was to explore the use of bibliotherapy or therapeutic experience of reading young adult literature among a group of young adults in developing their self-esteem. …”
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Literatura dziecięca i młodzieżowa w obliczu katastrofy klimatycznej. Nadzieje i możliwości szerzenia postawy proekologicznej za pomocą tekstów literackich by Małgorzata Figura

“… The article is an attempt to indicate a turn towards Mother Earth in children’s and young adult literature and to capture the possibilities offered by this turn in terms of spreading pro-ecological attitudes among the indicated audience. …”
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Research on Children in Sexual Minorities—A Case Study of Julie Anne Peters’ Luna by Shi Aiqing

“…The same situation is reflected in the field of young adult literature. However, Luna is a pioneering work concerning transgender children of sexual minorities in young adult literature. …”
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O fenômeno <i>crossover fiction</i> e as obras editadas para crianças e jovens de Mia Couto e Luandino Vieira: uma discussão sobre o público leitor by Júlia Zuza

“…The development of the notion of children’s and young adult literature culminated in the development of crossover fiction. …”
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The use of frame story in Kashmira Sheth’s Boys without Names by Alobeytha, Faisal Lafee Etan, Shaik Ismail, Sharifah Fazliyaton, Shapii, Aspalila

“…Authors for young adult literature often present their tales directly through the voice of the story narrators. …”
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A Multimodal Assignment That Enriches Literacy Learning The Problem by Timothy Oldakowski

“…This article demonstrates the value of multimodal learning (the use of more than one mode) as a means for student expression, specifically in responding to young adult literature. Here, I share how students had rich interpretations of a text through the use multiple modes.…”

Afro-Latin@ Representation in Youth Literature: Affirming Afro-Latin@ Cultural Identity by Ada Malcioln Martin

“…This essay focuses specifically on Afro-Latin@ identity in the United States and the role Afro-Latin@ representation in children’s and young adult literature can play in shaping Afro-Latin@ feelings regarding race and cultural heritage, and in constructing and affirming self-identity and feelings of self-worth.…”
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The feminist movement and children’s literary criticism in Galicia: a cartography by Montserrat Pena Presas

“…Normally, we do not refer to children’s and young adult literature as an area influenced by the feminist movement. …”
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The Practice of Ideological State Apparatuses in Lois Lowry’s The Giver by Ari Setyorini, Serwana Idris

“…This article attempts to portray how a contemporary young adult literature entitled The Giver (Lowry, 1993) illustrates the operation of state apparatus in a dystopian setting of time and place. …”
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Writing Personal Trauma in Young Adult Fiction: Benjamin Zephaniah’s Refugee Boy and Siobhan Dowd’s Solace of the Road by Šárka Bubíková

“…It also deals with the textual means of writing trauma and reflects on the category of young adult literature under which both novels were marketed, arguing why Zephaniah’s novel fits the category while Dowd’s can be seen as a crossover novel. …”
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Reading Rick Riordan'S Sea Of Monsters Using Propp'S Theory Of Narratology by Khaksari, Mahta

“…Due to the significance of the contemporary young adult literature (YAL) in conveying values and literary information to young readers, and because such texts appeal to young adults (YA) more than the classics, the present research aims to investigate the structure of modem mythology texts systematically to see whether they match the classics in terms of complexity of structure and conveyed values or not. …”
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The Category Is “Pandemic Queer”: Reading, Connecting, and Reimagining Literacy with LGBTQ+ Youth in the Age of COVID-19 by shea wesley martin, Henry “Cody” Miller

“…This article details how we structured a community of readers who worked to analyze young adult literature through intersectional and anti-oppressive lenses (Blackburn & Smith, 2010; Durand, 2015; Herman-Wilmarth & Ryan, 2015), deepen their critical consciousness relating to contemporary LGBTQ socio-political topics (Kelly & Currie, 2020), and leveraged social media and online avenues to construct community that expanded the boundaries of school hallways (Lucero, 2017; Mayo, 2014). …”
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Recuerdos LIJ-ados: memoria de la guerra civil española en la Literatura Infantil y Juvenil del siglo XXI / CYAL-worn memories: memory of the Spanish Civil War in 21st century chil... by Rafael Negrete-Portillo

“…Abstract This paper proposes a dual research: on the one hand, to offer a panoramic view of how the memory of the Spanish Civil War is transmitted in children's and young adult's literature of our times, paying special attention to the technical narrative structure and the chronotope. …”
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Representative Library Collections as a Response to the Institutional Oppression of LGBTQ Youth of Color by Jeanie Austin

“…It begins with the synthesis of ongoing campaigns for greater diversity in young adult literature; critical theoretical approaches to race, gender, and sexuality; and the needs identified by adults working for a critically situated community drop-in youth center for LGBTQ youth. …”
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Queer Connections and Fostering Inclusion: Reflections on Qualitative Focus Group Design by David Betts, Annika Herb

“…Reflecting on a research study that explored the impact of queer representation in young adult literature on young readers, the paper explores the concepts of building queer connections and fostering inclusion as methods to support qualitative research design. …”
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Using American Coming-of-Age Stories in the ELT Classroom by Elena Ortells Montón

“…However, in a world dominated by visual media and technology, getting young people to read becomes a challenging experience, which turns out to be even more problematic in English language teaching. Young adult literature and multicultural coming-of-age stories can offer teachers the necessary materials to foster interest in reading and to raise intercultural awareness. …”
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I pojklandet by Magnus Öhrn

“… In the Land of Boys: A Primary Mapping of Boys’ Territory in Swedish Children’s and Young Adult Literature In »Boy Culture: Middle-Class Boyhood in Nineteenth-Century America« the historian E. …”
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Contemporary translated children’s literature in Sweden with a focus on literature from French-speaking regions by Valérie Alfvén, Charlotte Lindgren

“…A relatively large portion of children’s literature in Sweden (36% in 2020), from books for toddlers to young adult literature, comes from translations. It has been shown in polysystem research, that ‘semi-peripheral’ countries such as Sweden, or places having a so-called ‘dominated language’, are known to import much literature because, for example, their internal production is rather limited, which a priori is not the case in Sweden. …”
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Interpolating South Asian spaces and transnational habitation in Tanuja Desai Hidier’s born confused by Manohari Rasagam, Shanthini Pillai

“…The ultimate aim of this paper is to show that South Asian Diasporic Metropolitan Young Adult Literature can play a role in interpolating transnational heritage by creating an awareness of cultural heritage on familiar young adult grounds and decenter Eurocentric narrative discourses.…”
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功能对等视角下《波西·杰克逊与神火之盗》电影文化负载词翻译 = A study on subtitle translation of culture-loaded terms in "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" using functional equivalence theory... by 王书涵 Ong, Mandy Shu Harn

“…Rick Riordan's novels belong to young adult literature. They contain knowledge applicable to all ages and cultures and play a significant role in shaping young people's understanding of the world. …”
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