Foreword / Bruce Brooks -- 1. "The YA Novel Is Dead" and Other Fairly Stupid Tales -- 2. The Three Faces of Multiculturalism -- 3. The Challenge and the Glory of YA Literature -- 4. The Journals Judged -- 5. How Adult Is Young Adult? -- 6. We Have Nothing to Lose but Our Isolation -- 7. When Coming of Age Meets the Age That's Coming: One Editor's View of How Young Adult Publishing Developed in America -- 8. Exploring the Basement: The Artistic Challenge of YA Literature -- 9. What Is Real about Realism? All the Wrong Questions about YA Literature -- 10. The Power of Words -- 11. The Myths of Teenage -- 12. Calling All Ye Printz and Printzesses -- 13. Puff the Magic Dragon: How the Newest Young Adult Fiction Grapples with a World in Upheaval -- 14. What Is YA, and What Is Its Future: Voice, Form, and Access - A Dialogue with Jacqueline Woodson.