AustLit

'This book is an absorbing, readable, well researched, authoritative title. It will resonate with anyone who is interested in YA literature – librarians, teachers, teacher librarians, parents. It is a history of young adult literature in the U.S.: the first section is organised chronologically to the end of the millennium while the larger proportion of the writing focuses on twenty-first century YA publishing and is organised into a comprehensive range of fiction genre, recreational nonfiction, digital and audio fiction and graphic novels and many crossover formats.'  (Introduction)