Into the Woods Again: Three Recent Young Adult Novels of Parental Abandonment.

Munde, Gail

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ERIC Number: EJ555278

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1997

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Into the Woods Again: Three Recent Young Adult Novels of Parental Abandonment.

Munde, Gail

ALAN Review, v24 n3 p22-26 Spr 1997

Takes a look at three recent young adult novels that are stories of children abandoned by their parents, and shows how each retains the essential features of the Hansel and Gretel folktale, a prototype of abandonment stories. (SR)

Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Content Analysis, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation, Parent Child Relationship

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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