When thirteen-year-old Delta Wells arrives on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina to visit her grandparents, she anticipates the usual peaceful summer of seaside fun. When[...]

This thesis examines the way children’s and young adult literature deals with play and intimacy. Using Georges Bataille’s conception of intimacy, this thesis posits that[...]

This is a creative thesis telling the story of a young girl who finds herself when she goes away to college. This is a portion of a larger novel telling Kacey Alan’s stor[...]

Friendship is a strangely absent topic in the criticism of children’s and young adult (YA) literature. While ancient philosophers have tried to define this unique relatio[...]

In Paladin City, superheroes have become commonplace to the ordinary citizens--all of them except for twelve-year-old Catori Powers, who spends all her time dreaming of b[...]

Container No. 764 has malfunctioned and its occupant is awake. This was never supposed to happen. It’s to be expected such things would happen under a human’s supervision[...]

Emily Gravett and David Wiesner play with existing texts, narrative structures, visual elements and connectivity in their picturebooks using a variety of metafictive devi[...]

Cato and Remy are two demons forced to form an alliance when Cato’s life is on the line and Remy has no choice but to repay an old debt. They embark on a quest to find th[...]

The aim of this thesis is to explore the emotional impact that three childhood environments have on the formation of Jane’s identity. These spatial boundaries are how Jan[...]

Literature on the development of literacy skills for students with a moderate to severe intellectual disability is growing; however, little is known about effective liter[...]