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INDEX

Alcohol, xiii, 46, 65, 66 Dashner, James, 31, 33, 71, 95, 135
Alexie, Sherman, 5, 38, 43–57, 61, The Maze Runner, 3, 26, 31, 34,
71, 77, 95
64, 135
Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Death, xvii, 7, 22, 31, 46, 51, 53, 117
Doctorow, Cory, 73, 74, 110, 111
Indian, 38, 44–51, 57, 61, 99, Don’t Forget to Be Awesome (DFTBA),
101, 103
Amazon, 7, 18, 20, 30, 31, 33 7, 4, 109, 112, 115–117
Anzaldua, Gloria, 10, 78, 137 Draper, Sharon, 5, 43
Appleman, Deborah, 9, 24, 25, 46, 77, 78 Drugs, 66, 70, 85, 86
Dystopian, xi–xiii, 3, 8, 26, 32, 60,
Blume, Judy, 59, 69, 135
Are You There God? It’s Me, 71–75, 80, 95, 133
Margaret, 59
Epistolary Novels, 100, 101, 103
Bookstores, 2, 4, 6–8, 12, 14, 15, 39,
44, 60, 63, 64, 70, 95, 117 Facebook, 32, 109, 110
Fantasy, xi, 1, 67, 70, 83, 91, 99, 109,
Capitalism, 3, 9, 13–35, 63, 129
Common Core State Standards, xii, xiii, 119, 125
Fan Fiction, 124–128
xiv, 131–132 Farmer, Nancy, 73
Copyright, 121, 122, 125
Chbosky, Stephen, 95, 101–104 The House of the Scorpion, 73
Female, body image, 61, 69, 80, 119
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 95, Feminism, 9, 77, 78
98–102, 107, 132
Third Wave, 78, 79
Cisneros, Sandra, 5, 38, 43, 61 Figment, 10, 11
Clare, Cassandra, 31, 87–89, 126, 135 Film/Film Adaptation, 13, 18, 19, 41,

Draco Trilogy, 126, 127 65, 99
Collins, Suzanne, xi, xiv, xv, xvii, xviii, Frank, Ze, 114, 115
Freire, Paulo, 96, 97, 99, 105, 106,
41, 71, 95, 135
The Hunger games, xi, xiii–xvi, 3, 15, 131, 136
Frey, James, 22, 23, 25, 28, 30
17, 41, 70–72, 77, 80, 95, 129 Full Fathom Five, 23–26, 28, 29
Cormier, Robert, 31, 32, 59, 88, 89, 135
Goodsreads, 33
The Chocolate War, 8, 11, 31, 59, 66, Gossip Girl, 1, 9, 11, 26, 64–70, 75, 78,
88, 89
80, 98, 100, 102, 120, 129, 134
Critical Literacy, ii, 9, 96, 100, 104, 105 Green, Hank, 112, 114–117
Critical Pedagogy, vii, 9, 95–100, Green, John, 4, 30, 40–43, 56, 66,

103–107, 131 79, 111–117, 119, 123–125,
Wireless Critical Pedagogy, 104–107 128, 136
Critical Race Theory, 9, 38, 44, 46–49,

52, 53, 97, 104, 105

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Harry Potter, 1, 4, 7, 13–17, 19, 22, 31, Paranormal, 8, 12, 17, 18, 26, 93, 98,
34, 35, 59, 98, 107, 111, 114, 99, 126
117–120, 123–129
Parents, 32, 51, 53, 55, 56, 66, 67, 70,
Harry Potter Alliance, The, 4, 107, 111, 73, 90, 98, 114, 124, 132
117, 118, 128
Participatory Culture, 9, 105, 106, 110,
Heteronormativity, 4, 29, 86–88, 92, 111, 116, 119–122, 125, 128
93, 112
Pittacus Lore, 18, 20, 28
High School, 1, 8–10, 18, 21, 23, 24, Post-colonialism, vii, 9, 59–62, 71
26, 27, 32, 38, 46, 54, 55, 59, 60, Post-modernism, 24, 65
63, 74, 78, 79, 85, 86, 88, 91, 98, Post-structuralism, 9, 61
104, 109, 112, 124, 130
Roth, Veronica, 31, 33, 71, 72, 80–82,
Hinton, S.E., 59, 68, 136 95, 122, 138
Hirst, Damien, 22, 25, 27, 28
Hollywood, 13–35, 126 Divergent, 31, 33, 71, 72, 80, 95, 122
Homosexuality, 8, 68, 86, 87, 89, 90, Rowling, J.K. , 13, 16, 22, 31, 34, 114,

92, 127 117, 118, 126, 127
hooks, bell, 67, 68, 78, 133, 137
Horcruxes, 117–119 Salinger, J. D., 100, 101, 109, 110, 131
Science Fiction, xi, xvi, xix, 83, 99
Jenkins, Henry, 3, 110, 120, 137 Serialization, 4, 7, 30, 31, 34, 64, 129
Sex, 4, 17, 29, 40, 66, 69, 70, 80, 81,
LGBTQI, 8, 86–93, 112, 129
Levithan, David, 91, 92, 111, 112 85, 86, 98
Libraries, v, 3, 4, 6–8, 16, 27, 39, 43, Sexuality, vii, 9, 11, 42, 61, 62, 68, 72,

44, 56, 60, 70, 85, 131 77–93, 97, 98, 107
Los Angeles, ix, xiv, 1, 9, 27, 29, 50, Shor, Ira, 96, 97, 138
Shusterman, Neil, 32, 73
54, 63, 74, 117, 124
Luke, Allan, 100, 137 Unwind, 32, 71, 73
Sparks, Beatrice, 72, 85, 129, 138
Marx, Karl, 9, 14, 137 Spivak, Gayatri., 61, 74, 138
Myers, Walter Dean, 5, 43, 44 Standards, 18, 38, 92, 93
Myers, Stephanie, 98
Taylor, Laini, 80–82
Twilight, xi, 7, 13, 15–17, 66, 98, 99,
107, 123–126, 134 Violence, 4, 17, 24, 29, 46,54, 83, 121
Vlogbrothers, 112, 115
National Novel Writing Month von Ziegesar, Cecil, 64–67, 69
(NaNoWriMo), 122–124
Warhol, Andy, 25, 28
National Public Radio (NPR), White Privilege, 39, 41, 42, 51, 62, 64, 97
60, 138 Whiteness, 41, 54–57, 62–64, 68, 131
World suck, 112, 114–117, 119
Ness, Patrick, 31, 71, 138
The Knife of Never Letting Go, 138 Zindel, Paul, 31, 32, 59, 139

Nerdfighters, 111, 114–117

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