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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"A Wrinkle in Time"”.
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Writing the Young Adult Novel: Analysis and Process
… research and creative. The research section includes brief analyses of five young adult novels that received the Newbery Medal, awarded annually by the American Library Association to the author of the most distinguished contribution to children's literature. The creative section is an …
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Bringing literature to life for sixth grade "reluctant readers": A collaborative, participatory study using Theatre for Young Audiences experiences to address aliteracy
With the current disenchantment toward reading literature among adolescents, this study explored if an Artistic Director of a Theatre for Young Audiences could lead the transformation of aliterate, sixth grade "reluctant readers" into becoming engaged readers of literature? These students have the …
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In danger of jammed minds: A deconstructive discourse analysis of the criteria for early onset schizophrenia and imagination in children's literature
… and complicate those discourses of childhood imagination as demonstrated in the diagnostic criteria for early onset schizophrenia by using an antipsychiatry perspective. This will be done by evaluating those discourses alongside those found in popular children’s literature, specifically, Harry …
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Negotiating Hope and Honesty: A Rhetorical Criticism of Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
… a departure from the nightmarish ends of Winston Smith and John Savage. Young adult authors resist hopelessness, even if the fictional world demands it.</p> <p>Using a rhetorical approach established by Wayne Booth in <em>The Rhetoric of Fiction</em> and <em>The Company We Keep</em>, this …