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The Heart Has Its Reasons
Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969–2004
By Cart, Michael & Jenkins, Christine A.
- ISBN
- 978-0-81085-071-2
- Publisher
- Scarecrow
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2007
This terrific and long-overdue resource chronicles the development of GLBTQ-themed young adult literature over time and intersperses critical commentary with annotated bibliographies of related fiction. Cart and Jenkins use a three-part framework to describe the historical changes in conte...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2007
Gay-themed young adult literature has come a long way since the discreet and veiled discourse about homosexuality found in early works like John Donovan's I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip (1969) and Isabelle Holland's The Man without a Face (1972). Recent novels such as David Levithan's Boy Meets Boy and Julie Anne Peters's Luna openly and frankly discuss gay issues, reflecting the way gay identity has progressed since the late 1960s. In Th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
