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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · 10h

Lindahl-Wise’s review provides a substantial overview of the collection’s essays which consider the wide-ranging representations of family in the YA novels of various authors including Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling, Stephanie Meyer, Melvin Burgess, Malorie Blackman, and more. 7/9

Book cover to “Family in Children’s and Young Adult Literature” edited by Eleanor Spencer and Jade Dillon Craig (Routledge, 2023).

Review: Family in Children’s and Young Adult Literature | The International Journal of Young Adult Literature

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · 10h

Mette Lindahl-Wise reviews the collection “Family in Children’s and Young Adult Literature” edited by Eleanor Spencer and Jade Dillon Craig (Routledge, 2023). ijyal.ac.uk/articles/10.... 6/9

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · 10h

Fitzsimmons remarks, “The edited collection by Luella D’Amico and Emily Hamilton-Honey is not so much about Nancy Drew as it is about the indelible footprint the young gumshoe left behind,” and weaves interdisciplinary modes of analysis throughout. 5/9

Book cover to “Beyond Nancy Drew: U.S. Girls’ Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century” edited by Luella D’Amico and Emily Hamilton-Honey (Rowan & Littlefield, 2024).

Review: Beyond Nancy Drew: U.S. Girls’ Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century | The International Journal of Young Adult Literature

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · 10h

Rebekah Fitzsimmons reviews “Beyond Nancy Drew: U.S. Girls’ Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century” edited by Luella D’Amico and Emily Hamilton-Honey (Rowan & Littlefield, 2024). ijyal.ac.uk/articles/10.... 4/9

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · 10h

Kavita focuses on the discussions of YA literature within Duckworth and Herb’s edited collections and the authors contributions to critical plant studies, ecocriticism, postcolonial studies, and speculative fiction in YA scholarship. 3/9

Book cover to Melanie Duckworth and Annika Herb’s edited collection “Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).

Review: Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature | The International Journal of Young Adult Literature

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · 10h

Kavita reviews Melanie Duckworth and Annika Herb’s edited collection “Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). ijyal.ac.uk/articles/10.... 2/9

Volume 5 - Issue 1 - 2024 | The International Journal of Young Adult Literature

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · 10h

Volume 5 of IJYAL contains several book reviews of recently published monographs and edited collections within the field of YA literature studies. These reviews are now available to read/download. ijyal.ac.uk/12/volume/5/...
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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · 13d

Through her empathetic and cathartic exploration of fire, Fox writes fiction for the Anthropocene generation, making climate change and activism accessible, and empowering young voices and validating their personal experiences.

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · 13d

In The Quiet and the Loud (2023), set during the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires in Australia, Helena Fox navigates the complexities of despair and hope, slow violence or attritional environmental destruction and solastalgia (distress and loss felt due to negative change to the environment).

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · 13d

The article argues that bushfires in Australian YA literature provide a point of access for readers to consider the global, complex problem of climate change and its devastating effects while portraying the experiences of climate anxiety and activism.

‘Everywhere’s Burning’: Realising Climate Change and Activism Through Bushfires in Australian Young Adult Literature | The International Journal of Young Adult Literature

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · 13d

@annikaherb.bsky.social's “‘Everywhere’s Burning’: Realising Climate Change and Activism Through Bushfires in Australian Young Adult Literature” is is available to read/download for free in Volume 5 of IJYAL:
ijyal.ac.uk/articles/10....

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Sep 1

It also explores Meyer’s representation of the future Earth and her commentary on ecological issues. The novel paints a sharp contrast between the countryside and the cityscape, with the the city being the main locus of danger. It advocates for a stronger link between humans and nature.

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Sep 1

The article presents an ecocritical analysis of the motifs of the forest and the wolf in Scarlet, tracing their transformation from the traditional versions of “Little Red Riding Hood”. They are treated as having innate value intead of serving only as metaphors for human concerns.

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Sep 1

Marissa Meyers’ Scarlet is the second instalment in her speculative fiction series, The Lunar Chronicles. Loosely based on “Little Red Riding Hood”, the novel centres on Scarlet Benoit and her endeavour to save her kidnapped grandmother with the help of Ze’ev Kesley, nicknamed “Wolf”.

Wolves in the Woods: An Ecocritical Analysis of Natural Motifs in Marissa Meyer’s Scarlet | The International Journal of Young Adult Literature

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Sep 1

Valentina Markasović’s article “Wolves in the Woods: An Ecocritical Analysis of Natural Motifs in Marissa Meyer’s Scarlet” is is available to read/download for free in Volume 5 of IJYAL:
ijyal.ac.uk/articles/10....

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

The article argues that these works inadvertently reinforce humanist binaries, and that the reading of such hybrid characters needs to pay closer attention to the subjecthood it is seeking to problematise.

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

In the author’s own trilogy, The Burning Days, the use of chimeric creatures relies on breaking down binary oppositions to create species alliance, but the work consistently falls back on essentialism to justify similarity.

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

In Ambeline Kwaymullina’s The Tribe trilogy, the human-animal connection is a speaking-to, rather than an amalgamation-with other species, but the novels are also focused on human extraordinariness.

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

In Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker trilogy, the representation of the hybrid monsters, named as half-men, points to a collision of species. Violence and brutality are tied to the canine or animal elements whilst their humanity serves to temper their baser instincts.

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

This article interrogates the radical potential of hybrid human-animal crossover characters in young adult literature to challenge human exceptionalism and promote interspecies connection. It critically examines the use of such characters in three YA speculative trilogies.

The Limitations of Posthuman Potentiality: Interspecies Collisions in Three Young Adult Speculative Trilogies | The International Journal of Young Adult Literature

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

Rachel Hennessy’s article “The Limitations of Posthuman Potentiality: Interspecies Collisions in Three Young Adult Speculative Trilogies” is is available to read/download for free in Volume 5 of IJYAL:
ijyal.ac.uk/articles/10....

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

In Ambeline Kwaymullina’s The Tribe trilogy, the human-animal connection is a speaking-to, rather than an amalgamation-with other species, but the novels are also focused on human extraordinariness.

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

In Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker trilogy, the representation of the hybrid monsters named as half-men points to a collision of species. Violence and brutality are tied to the canine or animal elements whilst their humanity serves to temper their baser instincts.