Month: November 2018

  Dessen, Sarah. Dreamland. New York, Penguin Group, 2000. Kapurch, Katie. “‘Unconditionally and Irrevocably:’ Theorizing the Melodramatic Impulse in Young Adult Literature through the Twilight […] Read More

Common tropes of toxicity in YA relationships:   Demeaning/Infantilizing. For example, every time Edward says, “silly Bella” or Warner’s derisive way he calls Juliette “my […] Read More

I remember reading Sarah Dessen’s Dreamland at a very young age. So young, I realize, I couldn’t wrap my brain around what was happening; all […] Read More

Let’s start off with a list of some of the crappy things Warner has said to Juliette (to document them all would be exhausting): “But […] Read More

I’m going to use the information I’ve obtained through the following articles, dissertations, and journals when navigating through other popular young adult books. Many of […] Read More

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