Book review: The necessity of young adult fiction by Elena Maceviciute

“…The necessity of young adult fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. x, 139 p. …”
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Exploring multimodality, literacy and learning with young adult fiction by Melissa Schieble

“…The author examines how preservice English teachers engaged a sociocultural and critical approach to literacy instruction and the tools of a web-based classroom to discuss young adult fiction with adolescents. A sociocultural approach to literacy instruction emphasizes meaning making as an iterative process between text and a reader's lived social, cultural and linguistic experiences. …”
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Cli-fi Young Adult et imaginaire urbain : (re)configurations génériques by Natacha Levet

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Character in Young Adult fiction: The example of Lyra in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials (1995-2000) and The Book of Dust (2017- ) by Virginie DOUGLAS

“…This metaphor is one of the devices in the trilogy, along with the alethiometer—a compass-like symbol-reader—, through which the character of Lyra is revealed to the reader.The fact that Pullman’s work belongs to the genre of young adult fiction is also essential. This literature targeting a liminal age group whose boundaries are increasingly blurred, fragments its young characters’ evolution ad infinitum by following them step by step towards adulthood as a way to better dissect the mutations and metamorphoses of adolescence. …”
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