![]() Some 23 years later (1973), Alfred Muller's follow-up dissertation, using the Petitt method of identification/analysis, produced another 25-novel list. None of these popular, stylistically mature, credible texts dealt with athletic topics. teenagers, especially males, over the past two centuries.ĭorothy Petitt's comprehensive survey/analysis of well-written YA novels (1960) provided a list of 25 novels which she identified and then evaluated for their literary quality. Interestingly, the novels written during this period have rarely been focused on sports-a widespread preoccupation of U.S. Such issues were seldom raised in earlier young adult fiction. Furthermore, these credible themes were to be inferred from a widening range of topics found in the YA texts: minority neighborhoods, gang activities, violence in suburbia, intimate boy-girl and same sex involvements, teenage pregnancy, premarital sex, single parentage, drop-out life, addiction to alcohol and drugs, parent/offspring violence and many more. During that period, themes of the growing up process have expanded significantly, including several which were taboo before the late 1960's. two trends in young adult novels: improved literary quality and the increasingly realistic treatment of adolescence. ![]() Over the past thirty-five or so years, readers have witnessed. ![]() Tunis and the Sports Novels for Adolescents: ![]()
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