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Tables of Contents for Exploding the Myths
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
Bruce Brooks
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
6
``The YA Novel Is Dead'' and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
7
6
The Three Faces of Multiculturalism
13
6
The Challenge and the Glory of YA Literature
19
6
The Journals Judged
25
6
How Adult Is Young Adult?
31
8
We Have Nothing to Lose but Our Isolation
39
12
When Coming of Age Meets the Age That's Coming: One Editor's View of How Young Adult Publishing Developed in America
51
14
Exploring the Basement: The Artistic Challenge of YA Literature
65
14
What Is Real about Realism? All the Wrong Questions about YA Literature
79
6
The Power of Words
85
14
The Myths of Teenage
99
10
Calling All Ye Printz and Printzesses
109
14
Puff the Magic Dragon: How the Newest Young Adult Fiction Grapples with a World in Upheaval
123
6
What Is YA, and What Is Its Future: Voice, Form, and Access---A Dialogue with Jacqueline Woodson
129
10
Index
139
7
About the Author
146