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Young adult literature can be utilized to assist young people as they search to develop identity and face many challenges of growing into an adult. The literature choices of young adults should be validated to encourage young people to continue to read and to seek out works that speak to their own developing Discourses.
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Vanslyke-Briggs, K., Matthews, H. (2014). A Source of Self. In: Paugh, P., Kress, T., Lake, R. (eds) Teaching towards Democracy with Postmodern and Popular Culture Texts. Imagination and Praxis. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-875-6_8
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