This insightful and often humorous work presents the evolution of YA lit in an appealing way, making it equally useful for students of literary studies.

Editorial Advisory Board: Sarah Park Dahlen, Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Marianne Martens, Ass

Discussions of gender and sexuality have become part of mainstream conversations and are being reflected in the work of more and more writers of fiction, partic

A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier lead