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Focusing on the attempted and successful banning of young adult fiction from media centers and classrooms, this book treats the legal and experiential history of censorship in libraries and public schools. It also looks closely at young adult novels from the early 1970s until today that have been the subject of book challenges. The authors discussed include Judy Blume, S.E. Hinton, Chris Crutcher, Jean Craighead George, M.E. Kerr, Mildred Taylor, and Sherman Alexie. This book offers parents, teachers and librarians arguments against censorship based on literary merit and societal benefit

This open access book sheds light on a range of complex interdependencies between adult education, young adults in vulnerable situations and active citizenship. Adult education has been increasingly recognized as a means to engage and re-engage young adults and facilitate their life chances and social inclusion thus contributing to an active citizenship within their societal contexts. This collection of chapters dealing with issues of social inclusion of young people represents the first book to explicitly approach the complex interdependencies between adult education, young adults in vulnerable situations and active citizenship from the European perspective. Social exclusion, disengagement and disaffection of young adults have been among the most significant concerns faced by EU member states over the last decade. It has been increasingly recognised by a range of stakeholders that there is a growing number of young people suffering from the various effects of the unstable social, economic and political situations affecting Europe and its neighbouring countries. Young adults who experience different degrees of vulnerability are especially at risk of being excluded and marginalised. Engaging young adults through adult education has been strongly related to addressing the specific needs and requirements that would facilitate their participation in social, economic and civic/political life in their country contexts. Fostering the active citizenship of young people, both directly and indirectly, is an area where many AE programmes overlap, and this has become a core approach to integration. This book considers social, economic and political dimensions of active citizenship, encompassing the development of social competences and social capital, civic and political participation and the skills related to the economy and labour market. The cross-national consideration of the notions of vulnerability, inclusion and active citizenship underpins the complexity of translating these concepts into the national contexts of adult education programmes.

""This book explores the understanding of the combination of technology and sexual decision making for young adults. It also examines the role of technology in sexual identity formation, sexual communication, relationship formation and dissolution, and sexual learning and online sexual communities and activism"--Provided by publisher"--

This thesis defines tragedy and introduces the young adult addiction novel as a form of modern tragedy. The tragedy genre has altered drastically throughout the ages. The new brands of tragedy reflects the vastly different society in which modern readers live, whereas, original tragedies focused on royalty or political leaders and were often written in verse until the eighteenth. This thesis examines Ellen Hopkins' Crank (2004) and Melvin Burgess' Smack (1996). The examination found that Crank is written in free verse, not as a tribute to the great poets of old, but as a way to add emphasis to words, while still being concise enough for sometimes jaded modern readers. Smack has constantly changing viewpoints to keep even the most reluctant reader turning pages. Burgess and Hopkins both educate by presenting a story and letting teens read it and make up their own minds about drug use to capture young adult audiences. The thesis concludes that the modern young adult addiction tragedy should not only be accepted as a viable addition to the literary cannon, it has the power to change lives.

This article investigates how creative fiction writing has responded to the problem of representing the multimodal landscape of digital culture in young adult literature (YAL). Twenty years ago, Dresang's theory of Radical Change presented a new breed of digitally engaged YAL that addressed changes in thinking about digital technologies and how young people interacted with them. Nikolajeva predicted the phenomenon three years earlier arguing for YAL coming of age as a literary form. In this article, I argue for the necessity of this work to continue, from the perspective of author-practitioner, and for the importance for authors to develop an expanded writing practice that foregrounds formal experiment that both reflects and critiques the thematic concerns and practices of digital culture. I begin by presenting some context for the work, in the form of a brief discussion of formal experimentation within selected YAL, and then go on to discuss my methods and approaches. This creative writing practice research has been undertaken during the course of Ph.D. study that has explored combining dramatic and multimodal writing techniques into a traditional prose fiction text, in this case a novel, aimed for YAL readers.

1. Introduction / Friedrich Losel, Anthony Bottoms and David P. Farrington -- 2. Young adult offenders in juvenile and criminal justice systems in Europe / Frieder Dunkel and Ineke Pruin -- 3. Youth, alcohol and aggression / Mary McMurran -- 4. Childhood risk factors for young adult offending : onset and persistence / David P. Farrington -- 5. Young adult offenders in custodial institutions : vulnerability, relationships and risks / Alison Liebling -- 6. What works in correctional treatment and rehabilitation for young adults? / Friedrich Losel -- 7. Young women in transition : from offending to desistance / Monica Barry -- 8. Perceptions of the criminal justice system among young adult would-be desisters / Joanna Shapland, Anthony Bottoms and Grant Muir -- 9. Lost in transition? : a view from the Youth Justice Board / Rod Morgan -- 10. Young adults in the English criminal justice system : the policy challenges / Rob Allen.