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This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a
variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that
contemporary young adult novels depict readers as agents. Reading,
these novels suggest, is neither an unalloyed good nor a dangerous
ploy, but rather an essential, occasionally fraught, by turns
escapist and instrumental, deeply pleasurable, and highly
contentious activity that has value far beyond the classroom skills
or the specific content it conveys. After an introductory chapter
that examines the state of reading and young adult fiction today,
the book examines novels that depict reading in school, gendered
and racialized reading, reading magical and religious books, and
reading as a means to developing civic agency. These examinations
reveal that books for teens depict teen readers as doers, and
suggest that their ability to read deeply, critically, and
communally is crucial to the development of adolescent agency.
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