2012/01/30 by Stephanie Guerra · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Youth Development and Social Support #Themes in Literature Analysis #Child Development and Digital Technology #Literacy #Psychology #Adult literacy #Pedagogy #Young adult #Developmental psychology
paper · doi:10.1002/jaal.00047
openalex publication_date 2012/01/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract The article presents a discussion of the potential of young adult urban fiction to engage at‐risk and incarcerated students in literacy instruction. The author provides an overview of the genre and an analysis of why young adult urban fiction is a good choice for educational use with at‐risk and incarcerated teens. The author also offers an evaluative process for selecting the best young adult urban fiction to use with these populations, and she shares some instructional ideas, including a list of books that met her evaluative criteria in her survey of 100 young adult urban fiction titles.