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BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF CRITICAL STUDIES
Young Adult books and readers

The category of "Young Adult" or teenage/adolescent readers has been developing recently in critical analysis, to bridge the gap between the worlds of childhood and adulthood. To what extent the category has a foot in either camp is the basis of much of the analysis!

The call number is to the text held in the Heyward Library.

Michael Cart, From romance to realism : 50 years of growth and change in young adult literature, New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1996
hmc 028.535 CART
 

John Foster, Popular literature for children and adolescents, Wagga Wagga, NSW. : CIS, CSU, 2003
hmc 809.89282
FOST

Meena Khorana (ed.), Critical perspectives on postcolonial African children's and young adult literature, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998
hmc 809.89282096 CRIT 

Robyn McCallum, Ideologies of identity in adolescent fiction : the dialogic construction of subjectivity, New York : Garland Pub., 1999
hmc 809.89283 MACC 

Maureen Nimon and John Foster, The adolescent novel : Australian perspectives, Wagga Wagga, N.S.W. : Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, 1997
hmc A823.0099283 NIMO
 

Heather Scutter, Displaced fictions : contemporary Australian books for teenagers and young adults, Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1999
hmc A820.99283 SCUT 

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