Description

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As a follow up to They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill, which examined supernatural monsters in YA fiction, in this book Bodart looks at human monsters in "real-life" fiction, including sexual predators, bullies, manipulators, torturers, and any who find glee and satisfaction from the pain of others. Bodart includes chapters on parents, siblings, and other family members who mistreat the weaker ones in the family; school personnel who step outside the boundaries when they interact with students in damaging ways; adult criminals or predators who look for young people to ensnare; and teens who bully others in order to hide their own fears and weaknesses. In addition, she will provide a chapter on the real-life monsters portrayed in nonfiction titles for young adults (such as Jaycee Dugard's A Stolen Life), who are just as frightening and far more dangerous than those who are fictional.

About the Author

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Joni Richards Bodart is associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. She is the 2010 winner of the Scholastic Library Publishing Award and is the author of The World's Best Thin Books: What to Read When Your Book Report Is Due Tomorrow (Scarecrow, 2000), Radical Reads: 101 YA Novels on the Edge (Scarecrow, 2002), Radical Reads 2 (Scarecrow, 2010), and They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill: The Psychological Meaning of Supernatural Monsters in Young Adult Fiction (Scarecrow, 2011).