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Brooks, Wanda; Hampton, Gregory – Children's Literature in Education, 2005
This article presents a case study class response to Mildred Taylor's now classic and widely read novel, "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry." Through data collected during one school year, the ways urban, adolescent students use their contemporary lenses to interpret the literary theme of "confronting, overcoming and challenging racism" are discussed.…
Descriptors: Novels, Racial Bias, Reader Response, Adolescents
Waller, Alison – Children's Literature in Education, 2004
In "The Haunting," "The Changeover," and "The Tricksters," Margaret Mahy fuses supernatural iconography of witchcraft and magic with images of ordinary and domestic adolescence. This article argues that Mahy's "fantastic realism" illuminates aspects of female teenage experience through a blend of myth, fairy tale, folklore and history, as well as…
Descriptors: Fantasy, Adolescents, Females, Adolescent Literature
Pattee, Amy S. – Children's Literature in Education, 2004
Our criticism and evaluation of young adult literature is tempered not only by the scope of our knowledge of adolescent literature in general, but also by our notions of adolescence, itself. Adolescent literature that, in Michael Cart's terminology, "shatters the shibboleths" of adolescence and adolescent culture, has the potential to re-shape the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Authors, Realism