Cart presents readers with a comprehensive examination of the emergent genre of young adult fiction in the English speaking world. He covers young adult fiction in the nineteen sixties and
seventies, the eighties, the early nineties, and the mid to late nineties; YA as new literature for a new millennium; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender literature; the impact of the
internet and other digital technology on the genre; and a wide variety of other related subjects over the course of the book’s seventeen chapters. The author is a former faculty member of UCLA
and a journalist based in the Midwest. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
