The Crossover Novel : Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership (Hardcover)

Series Editor’s Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction A Decade of Border Crossing

Chapter 1 Kiddults at Large

Chapter 2 Harry Potter, Lightness and Death

Chapter 3 Coming of Age in a Fantasy World:

Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

Chapter 4 Seeing Things Big:

Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Chapter 5 Adolescence and Abjection:

Geraldine McCaughrean’s The White Darkness

Chapter 6 The Search for Roots:

David Almond’s Clay

Chapter 7 Re-reading Childhood Books:

C.S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair

Conclusion Crossing Thresholds of Time

Notes

Bibliography

Index