Victor Malo-Juvera is Associate Professor of English education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA.

Crag Hill is Associate Professor of English education at the University of Oklahoma, USA.

Preface

1. The Young Adult Canon: A Literary Solar System
Victor Malo-Juvera and Crag Hill

Section I: The Center of the Canon
2. The Giver in Our Midst: Grounding Dystopia as Total Institutions
Michael Macaluso, Katie Macaluso, and Darby Evans
3. "It's Easier not to Say Anything": Speak through the Lens of Strategic Formalism
Cori McKenzie
4. "Do You See a [Hu]man Sitting Here?": Signifying in Monster
KaaVonia Hinton
5. "Lost, Squared": Reservation Realism and the Borderless Imaginary
Angela Sparks

Section II: Seminal Works
6. From Maven to Mentor: The Archetypal Coaches of The Contender
Luke Rodesiler and Mark Lewis
7. "Peace at Any Price": A Marxist Reading of The Chocolate War
William C. Sewell
8. Complex Bodies, Complex Decisions: Female Sexuality in Judy Blume's Forever...
Julianna E. Lopez Kershen
9. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Disrupting the "All-White World of Children's Books"
Chris Crowe and Jace Brown
10. More than Esperanza: Revisiting Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street
Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez
11. Dominating Gender: Female-Controlled, Decolonizing Power and The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Rachel L. Carazo

Section III: Contemporaries 12. "The Earth is Speaking to Us": An Ecocritical Approach to Stargirl
Merrilyne Lundahl
13. Parties, Pranks, and Privilege: Reading Looking for Alaska through the Lens of Critical Whiteness
Brandon Sams and Ashley Boyd
14. Attending to Cultural Models in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis
Sean Connors
15. "So what am I supposed to do now?": Border Crossing in American Born Chinese
Lisa Scherff
16. The Literacy Thief: A New Literacy Studies Analysis of The Book Thief
Mary McCulley