Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture: An Introduction examines the early foundations, current trends, and future directions of the field of Latinx youth literature, media, and culture. This textbook introduces readers, students, and scholars to the field’s shifting dynamics, beginning with some of the earliest published texts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to more contemporary materials today. Each chapter includes a list of suggested further readings to enrich students’ and scholars’ understandings and provides possible avenues for independent reading and research. Including a glossary and research and teaching snapshots, this book highlights core concepts such as immigration and diaspora, transnationality, gender, sexuality, and activism, and provides avenues for further research and reading.

The Routledge Companion to Young Adult Literature examines the rapidly expanding field of young adult (YA) literature: critical and popular interest in YA literature has burgeoned in recent years; traditional YA print literature and digital youth culture are meeting in new, exciting and expansive ways. What constitutes YA literature, however, is as indistinct as what it might mean to be ‘adolescent’. In the context of the body of work classified as children’s literature becoming vaster and its boundaries more mutable, this companion explores to what extent YA literature expands definitions of what has been traditionally constituted as children’s literature, and asks whether it exists separately or relatedly.