Introduction -- Section I: Where Has YAL Been? -- Chapter 1: Young Adult Literature: Defining the Role of Research -- Chapter 2: The Changing Face of Young Adult Literature -- Chapter 3: Literacy Teacher Education Today and the Teaching of Adolescent Literature -- Section II: Where Is YAL Now? -- Chapter 4: Identifying Obstacles and Garnering Support -- Chapter 5: Using Young Adult Literature to Motivate and Engage the Disengaged -- Chapter 6: Dystopian Novels -- Chapter 7: Out of the Closet and Into the Open -- Chapter 8: Multicultural Adolescent Literature: Finding the Balance -- Chapter 9: Updating Young Adult Literature Reading Lists While Retaining Quality Titles -- Chapter 10: Crossing Boundaries -- Chapter 11: The Best-Selling Adult Novelist and Young Adult Fiction -- Chapter 12: Young Adult Literature as a Call to Social Activism -- Section III: Where Is YAL Going? -- Chapter 13: Beyond the Language Arts Classroom -- Chapter 14: Reading with Blurred Boundaries -- Chapter 15: YAL in Cyberspace: How Teachers Are Following Their Students into New Literacies -- About the Contributors.