Young Adult Literature and Spirituality

William Boerman-Cornell has co-authored two previous books about using graphic novels to teach middle school and high school. A former high school English teacher, Boerman-Cornell is a professor of Education at Trinity Christian College near Chicago. Deborah Vriend Van Duinen has served as the director of The NEA Big Read, a community-wide reading discussion program in Holland, Michigan that has pioneered college and community cooperative reading approaches. She is an Associate Professor of Education at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Xu Bian brings expertise as an Assistant Professor of Chinese to a consideration of international and inter-cultural literary interpretation. The author of several peer-reviewed studies, Bian teaches at Seattle Pacific University in Washington state. Kris Gritter has published over twenty peer-reviewed articles and chapters about adolescent literacy and is the award-winning editor of a column in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. Gritter is a professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Seattle Pacific University in Washington state.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: New Ways to Interpret and Discuss Young Adult Literature

Chapter 1: Prayers of Lament in Internment

Chapter 2: Yearning in The Hate U Give

Chapter 3: Speak and Long Way Down Graphic Novels for Prayers of Anger

Chapter 4: Confession in Goodbye Days.

Chapter 6: Thankfulness in The War that Saved My Life

Chapter 7: The Poet X and Louisiana’s Way Home as Prayers of Reconciliation

Chapter 8: Using Havruta to Consider Orbiting Jupiter and Beast Player as Prayers of Obedience

Chapter 9: Prayers of Contemplation in Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Chapter 10: Finding Joy in The Fault in Our Stars through Floralegium

Chapter 11: The Inquisitor’s Tale: Using PaRDeS to Explore Pilgrimage

Conclusion: Closing our Discussion and the Books

References

About the Author