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Volume 7, Issue 1 (2014)

Articles

Editorial: Discussing the Classics of Young Adult Literature
Steven T. Bickmore

First Opinion: Still the Most Frightening of All: Robert Cormier’s I Am the Cheese
Crag Hill

Second Reaction: Questioning Governmental Surveillance: The Enduring Political Commentary of Robert Cormier’s I Am the Cheese
Mark A. Lewis

First Opinion: S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders: First Look
Jennifer S. Dail

Second Reaction: “Not All of Us Are Like That”: Othering Poor Violent Peers To Become a Proper Adolescent in The Outsiders
Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides

Words from the Author: My Life with Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!
M. E. Kerr

First Opinion: M. E. Kerr’s Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!: A Fun, Quirky, Groundbreaking Young Adult Novel
Jeffrey Kaplan

Second Reaction: M. E. Kerr’s Dinky Hocker Encapsulates an Era
Barbara A. Ward

Words from the Author
Robert Lipsyte

First Opinion: Hope and Realism Offered in this Classic Sports Novel
Chris Crowe

Second Reaction: The Impact of Sports Literature on Adolescents and Young Adults
Alan Brown

First Opinion: The Weird Watsons
KaaVonia Hinton

Second Reaction: Already a Classic? A Look at The Watsons across Media, Teaching, and Research
E. Sybil Durand