University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Supervised Undergraduate Student Research Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects and Creative Work 5-2012 Female Characters as Role Models in Young Adult Literature Julia S. Stamper University of Tennessee - Knoxville,
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[email protected]. Female Characters as Role Models in Young Adult Literature Julia Stamper CHP Senior Thesis 2012 Introduction I have been an avid reader for my entire life. As a child, I read constantly, always searching for longer and longer books to keep me entertained. I also had a fairly high reading level for my age, which sparked my early interest in young adult literature. Since books for teens were generally longer and more complex than ones meant for my own age group, I started reaching for young adult literature in elementary school. That early interest never really faded, and I continued reading books for teens all throughout elementary, middle, and then high school.