Scarecrow Press
Pages: 174
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8108-6056-8 • Hardback • December 2010 • $83.00 • (£64.00)
978-0-8108-7767-2 • eBook • December 2010 • $78.50 • (£60.00)
Joanne Brown is professor emeritus at Drake University. She is the coauthor of Declarations of Independence: Empowered Girls in Young Adult Literature, 1990-2001 (2002) and The Distant Mirror: Reflections on Young Adult Historical Fiction (2005), both published by Scarecrow Press.
Deftly weaving together immigration research, adolescent development theory, and literary analyses, Brown explores a series of critical questions about the immigration experience through more than two dozen young adult books....Engrossing and eloquent, Immigration Narratives in Young Adult Literature evidences deep knowledge of and care for both young adult literature and the various facets of immigration, particularly as it "[intensifies] the process of questioning one's identity" during the adolescent passage-"their stories are stories of ordinary people made extraordinary by undertaking an extraordinary experience" (pp. 23-24). The book would serve as an excellent basis for a middle or high school book group, an American Studies curriculum unit, or simply to enlarge understanding of and empathy for the diverse experiences of one's clientele.
— VOYA
This brief study is a useful tool for teachers who are organizing a course on the subject of immigration or a good starting point for scholars who are pursuing further research in this pervasive but largely undertheorized area of children's literature.
— Children's Literature Association Quarterly