hidinginstacks's review against another edition
3.0
Soooooo it was an assigned textbook.
It was okay. I got a lot of overview about young adult lit that I hadn't known before. It's a genre that I sorta "fell out" of but now I have a renewed interest in it.
My problem with the text is that it felt way too anecdotal. I thought it would be a lot more impersonal (concrete history, research, etc.). This Cart guy seems to be THE young adult lit guru of ALA so. I dunno. Helpful info but the text needs some work. Or a new author.
It was okay. I got a lot of overview about young adult lit that I hadn't known before. It's a genre that I sorta "fell out" of but now I have a renewed interest in it.
My problem with the text is that it felt way too anecdotal. I thought it would be a lot more impersonal (concrete history, research, etc.). This Cart guy seems to be THE young adult lit guru of ALA so. I dunno. Helpful info but the text needs some work. Or a new author.
kiki_readz's review against another edition
4.0
Great text for an introductory course in YA librarianship. Very readable and enjoyable for a class textbook. I would have enjoyed even without the class.
l1brarygirl's review against another edition
3.0
...a New York teen named Julia Rosen (1998, 347) may have spoken for her entire generation when she wrote, in VOYA magazine, "Reading 'bleak books' helps us to realize what kinds of problems actual teens have. They broaden our outlook and help us become less apathetic about the world's problems. Until we live in a world where no problems exist, where adults always behave responsibly, and where there are always happy endings, adults must learn to accept that some of the books we read will describe the hash realities of life. pg. 67
veritas19's review against another edition
4.0
Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism is a fascinating and fun preview of the somewhat brief history, current and developing trends in young adult literature. Young Adult Literature has been updated with new information since it’s initial publishing in 1996 and released with a new, more modern cover and reformatted with a funky fresh font and style. Michael Cart, an expert in the field of Young Adult Literature, has crafted a poignant and rich look at young adult literacy from its infancy in the early 1900’s to it’s Golden Age in the new millennium. He utilizes humor, cultural references, interviews and well-grounded research to further his views of the past, the present and each decades issues in young adult literature. In this book, Mr. Cart also tackles the many controversial issues in YA literature including homosexuality, bullying, multiculturalism and more with entertaining and interesting prose. At the times, the amount of statistics and factual information got in the way of the picture Mr. Cart was trying to paint but only for a short time. He delivered a truly engaging read on the topic of YA literature that doesn’t always get the type of coverage it deserves. Librarians, teachers and parents would find the knowledge in this book to be the most useful for suggesting titles and authors to their teens and student reading experiences.
heykellyjensen's review against another edition
Readable, engaging history of YA fiction through roughly 2009. What was most fascinating to me was that we're having the same exact conversations that were happening during the late 1990s regarding "darkness," "frankness," and what it means to be "ya" anyway.
jazzyjan94's review against another edition
Read this for one of my grad. school classes. It was a good primer of YA literature, first discussing the history of YA literature and then moving on to topics and trends in modern YA literature.
abbeyjfox's review against another edition
3.0
lots of good stuff in here, but would have rather read all the books cart describes than his descriptions... also, looking for an updated version of something similar.