Writing Youth

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Writing (about) Youth
Chapter One—Literacy’s Hunger Games: Branding Multiliteracy
Chapter Two—The Darker Side of the Sorting Hat: Representations of Educational Testing in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction, by Jonathan Alexander and Rebecca Black
Chapter Three—Beyond The Hunger Games: Becoming Collaborative
Chapter Four—Kids in the Aftermath: The Politics of Hurricane Katrina in Young Adult Fiction
Chapter Five—Sponsoring Homonormativity: Sexual Literacies in Queer YA Literature, by
William P. Banks and Jonathan Alexander
Chapter Six—Seizing the Means of Production, Sort Of: YA Self-Sponsored Multimedia
Videos Discussed
Bibliography
About the Author

Overall, Writing Youth is extremely valuable in that it explicitly recognizes young adult fiction as embedded within a wider cultural media context in which young people are not merely passive consumers, but are actively engaged and agential. Alexander's concept of literacy sponsorship has wide-reaching implications not only for literary critics but also for educators and publishers.