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RR 2017/222Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism (3rd edition) Michael Cart Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the American Library Association Chicago 2016 328 pp. ISBN 978 0 8389 1462 5 $68
The first edition of Michael Cart's From Romance to Realism: 50 Years of Growth and Change in Young Adult Literature was published in 1996. A lot has changed since then. The late 1990s saw the release of the first Harry Potter titles. Twilight and The Hunger Games were still in the distant future. The promise (or threat) of digital books and their impact on the printed page had not yet come to pass. LGBT characters and diverse protagonists with multicultural perspectives were still woefully underrepresented. The second edition, called Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism (2010), addressed many of these issues but, with continued commercial success, the quantity and scope of young adult literature has continued to evolve rapidly, sometimes blurring the lines between genres and audience. In this third edition of the text, larger and longer than the previous edition, Cart demonstrates his expertise in the field as he addresses all of the new trends and titles that have emerged in recent years.
The book is split into two parts, That Was Then and This Is Now. Readers of the previous edition will recognize the chapter headings and content...