YA Fiction
Volume 41, Number 6
September-October 2020
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Frederick Luis Aldama’s Introduction to Focus: YA Fiction, The Vital Pulse of Today’s Fiction
Andrew James Trevarrow reviews Adam Silvera’s They Both Die at the End
Rachel Miller reviews Robin Ha’s Almost American Girl
Mathew Sandoval reviews Rebecca Roanhorse’s Race to the Sun
Gabriel Aguilar reviews Diane Guerrero with Erica Moroz My Family Divided
Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado reviews Claribel A. Ortega’s Ghost Squad
Stacey Alex reviews Isabel Ibañez’s Woven in Moonlight
Cristina Rivera reviews Pam Muñoz Ryan’s Mañanaland
Anthony R. Ramirez reviews Matt Mendez’s Barely Missing Everything
William Orchard reviews Zoraida Córdova’s The Way to Rio Luna
Peyton Del Toro reviews Stephanie Jimenez’s They Could Have Named Her Anything
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
