Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Decade of Border Crossing; Chapter One: Kiddults at Large; Chapter Two: Harry Potter, Lightness and Death; Chapter Three: Coming of Age in a Fantasy World: Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials; Chapter Four: Seeing Things Big: Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time; Chapter Five: Adolescence and Abjection: Geraldine McCaughrean's The White Darkness; Chapter Six: The Search for Roots: David Almond's Clay
Summary
While crossover books such as Rowling's Harry Potter series have enjoyed enormous sales and media attention, critical analysis of crossover fiction has not kept pace with the growing popularity of this new category of writing and reading. Falconer remedies this lack with close readings of eight works of crossover fiction
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index