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Volume 12
Number 2: May 2022
- “My Mom Recommended It to Me”: Understanding Homeschoolers’ Information Practices
- “What Is Unseen Is Eternal”: Undergraduate Views of Religion and Spirituality in Young Adult Literature
Number 1: June 2021
- Accounting for Diversity: Measuring Change in the Proportion of African American Teen Literature in the Senior High Core Collection
- Essential and Dedicated: Discursive Practices of Librarians Serving Teens in Fall 2020 of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Volume 11
Number 2: April 2020
- When Libraries Aren’t Challenged: Librarians Discuss a Lack of Patron Challenges to Their Collections
- The Darkest Themes: Perceptions of Teen-on-Teen Gun Violence in Schools as Portrayed in Teen Literature
Number 1: February 2020
- “The Expectations That We Be Educators”: The Views of Australian Authors of Young Adult Fiction on Their OwnVoices Novels as Windows for Learning about Marginalized Experiences
- “It’s Okay to Be Confused”: LGBTQAI+ Teen Novels as Sexuality and Sexual Health Information Resources
- A Public Health Approach to Uncovering the Health-Related Needs of Teen Library Patrons
Volume 10
Number 3: November 2019
- Getting Basic Information Isn’t as Helpful as the Nuanced Advice We Can Give Each Other”: Teens with Autism on Digital Citizenship Education
- Teen Social Media Practices and Perceptions of Peers: Implications for Youth Services Providers and Researchers
Number 2: July 2019
- Feels Like Home: The Digital Information Practices of Teen Fans
- Perspectives on Youth Data Literacy at the Public Library: Teen Services Staff Speak Out
- What’s Going on Down Under? Part 2: Portrayals of Culture in Award-Winning Australian Young Adult Literature
Number 1: March 2019
Special Themed Issue: Movements that Affect Teens
- Editor’s Message: Movements that Affect Teens
- One, Two, Three, Four! We Don’t Want Your F**king War! The Vietnam Antiwar Movement in Young Adult Fiction
- Disability Narrative Theory and Young Adult Fiction of Mental Illness
- What’s Going on Down Under? Part 1: Portrayals of Culture in Award-Winning Australian Young Adult Literature
Volume 9
Number 2: January 2019
- The First All-Digital Library Space: The Effectiveness of BiblioTech’s Services for Urban Youth.
- Pausing at the Threshold: Peritextual Images in Young Adult Nonfiction Award Winners.
Number 1: July 2018
- The 2014 Rainbow List: A Descriptive Study of the List and Ten Public Libraries’ Ownership.
- Asian American Teen Fiction: An Urban Public Library Analysis
- Happiness at the End of the Rainbow: Exploring Happy Endings in Young Adult Literature with Queer Female Protagonists, 2009–2017
- INFLO-mation: A Model for Exploring Information Behavior through Hip Hop.
- Middle-Schoolers’ Perceptions of Government: Intersection of Information and Civic Literacies.
Volume 8
Number 2: December 2017
- Drawing Queerness: Evaluating Notable LGBTQ Graphic Novels for Teens
- Patterns in Multicultural Young Adults Novels about Persian Culture
Number 1: July 2017
- Dreaming in Color: Identifying Race and Ethnicity in YA Speculative Fiction Reviews
- Provide the Highest Level of Service: Public Library Collections of LGBTQ* Materials for Adolescents in the United States
- Understanding Empathetic Services: The Role of Empathy in Everyday Library Work
Volume 7
Number 3: December 2016
- Hunky Cajuns and Gay Sextons: Diversity as Represented in Adolescent Book Reviews
- The Real Deal 2*: How Autism Is Described in YA Novels
- Teen Book Covers: What’s Missing?
- What We Know: Planning, Implementing, and Assessing a Media Literacy-Themed Summer Camp
Number 2: June 2016
- Competencies Needed to Provide Teen Library Services of the Future: A Survey of Professionals in Learning Labs and Makerspaces
- Designing the Library of the Future for and with Teens: Librarians as the “Connector” in Connected Learning
- How Usable Are School Library Websites? A Random Sample from All Fifty States
- The Impact of Social Media on Ghanaian Youth: A Case Study of the Nima and Maamobi Communities in Accra, Ghana
Number 1: March 2016: Teens, Libraries, and LGBT Issues
- “They Kind of Rely on the Library”: School Librarians Serving LGBT Students
- Sex in the Stacks: Teenager Sex Education Information Seeking Behavior and Barriers to the Use of Library Resources
- The Curriculum Materials Library as a Hub of Resources, Literacy Practices, and Collaboration: Expanding the Role of the Library to Support Foster Youth
- “It’s Woefully Inadequate”: Collections of LGBTQ* Fiction for Teens in English Public Library Services
Volume 6
Number 4: November 2015: Practice-Based Research
- Find Poetry: Using Found Poems in School and Public Libraries to Enhance Student Creativity and Writing
- Future of Library and Museum Services Supporting Teen Learning: Perceptions of Professionals in Learning Labs and Makerspaces
- Book Tweets and Snappy Reads: Booktalking to Engage Millennial Teens
- YouthStudio: Designing Public Library YA Spaces with Teens
- Examining Inclusive Programming in a Middle School Library: A Case Study of Adolescents Who Are Differently- and Typically-Able
Number 3: August 2015
- Adolescent Females and the Graphic Novel: A Content Analysis
- Teen Library Website Models: Identifying Design Models of Public Library Websites for Teens
Number 2: April 2015: Selected Papers from the 2014 YALSA Young Adult Literature Symposium
- You Are What You Read: Young Adult Literacy and Identity in Rural America
- The Real Deal: Teen Characters with Autism in YA Novels
Number 1: March 2015: The Future of Library Services for and with Teens
- The Impact of Assigned Reading on Reading Pleasure in Young Adults
- Connected Learning, Librarians, and Connecting Youth Interest
Volume 5
Number 1: January 2015: Eliza Dresang Memorial
- Eliza Dresang and the Boy Who Lived
- Looking at Kim Dong Hwa’s Color Trilogy through the Prism of Radical Change
- Putting Youth First: The Radical Eliza T. Dresang
- Radical Change Theory: Framework for Empowering Digital Youth
Volume 4
Number 2: August 2014
Number 1: May 2014
- From Dickens to 9/11: Exploring Graphic Nonfiction to Support the Secondary-School Curriculum
- Motivational Attributes of Children and Teenagers Who Participate in Summer Reading Clubs
- Beyond Books, Nooks, and Dirty Looks: The History and Evolution of Library Services to Teens in the United States
- More than Just Books: Librarians as a Source of Support for Cyberbullied Young Adults
- Comics: A Once-Missed Opportunity
Volume 3
Number 1: April 2013:
- This, That, Both, Neither: The Badging Of Biracial Identity In Young Adult Realism
- Taking a Dip in the Crazy Pool: The Evolution of X-Women From Heroic Subject to Sexual Object
- YA Literature: The Inside and Cover Story
Volume 2
Number 4: September 2012
- Graffiti, Poetry, Dance: How Public Library Art Programs Affect Teens Part 1: Introduction & Literature Review
- Graffiti, Poetry, Dance: How Public Library Art Programs Affect Teens Part 2: The Research Study and Its Practical Implications
- Recent South Korean Immigrant Adolescents’ Everyday Life Information Seeking When Isolated from Peers: A Pilot Study
Number 3: April 2012
- Editor’s Message: Continuous Publishing
- Media Literacy and Learning Commons in the Digital Age: Toward a Knowledge Model for Successful Integration into the 21st Century School Library
- The Cover Story: What the Book Jacket of Adele Minchin’s Young Adult Novel, The Beat Goes On, Communicates about HIV/AIDS
Number 2: February 2012
- Editor’s Message: February 2012
- An Agenda of Praxis for Young Adult Librarianship
- Research Matters: The Long Reach of the Model of the Information Search Process (ISP)
- The YALSA Research Agenda: Getting It Done
Number 1: November 2011
- Editor’s Message: Fall 2011
- Research for the Next Generation
- Young Adults’ Information Behavior: What We Know So Far and Where We Need to Go from Here
- The Impact of Libraries on Young Adults: Toward a Critical Research Agenda
- Gimme Shelter: Informal and Formal Learning Environments in Library Land
- The Young Adult Voice in Research about Young Adults
Volume 1
Number 4: August 2011
- Editor’s Message: Summer 2011
- The Silent Message: Professional Journals’ Failure to Address LGBTQ Issues
- Juried Posters from YALSA’s Research Poster Session at ALA Annual 2011
Number 3:’ June 2011
- Editor’s Message: Spring 2011
- Are All Lists Created Equal? Diversity in Award-Winning and Bestselling Young Adult Fiction
- More Powerful than a Locomotive: Using Graphic Novels to Motivate Struggling Male Adolescent Readers
- YALSA Research Committee Poster Session
Number 2: February 2011
- Editorial: Winter 2011
- An Initial Exploration of Printz Award Winners from Outside the U.S.
- The Printz Award Winners Under a Microscope: Content Trends, Committee Challenges, and Teen Popularity
- Rural Teens on the Role of Reading in Their Lives
- Information Seeking in the Context of a Hobby: A Case Study of a Young Adult with Asperger’s Syndrome
- The School Library versus the School Board: An Exploration of the Book Banning Trend of the 1980s
Number 1: November 2010
- Editorial
- Cultural Inquiry: A Framework for Engaging Youth of Color in the Library
- “Teens Today Don’t Read Books Anymore”: A Study of Differences in Interest and Comprehension Based on Reading Modalities: Part 1, Introduction and Methodology
- Pushing the Envelope: Exploring Sexuality in Teen Literature