This book looks at literature that features young adults who either identify themselves as artists or use the arts in very intentional ways to help create a sense of self in their adolescent lives. The authors examine a number of books featuring teens who engage in music, poetry, painting, and various other means of artistic expression.

Lois Thomas Stover is Professor and Chair, Educational Studies, St. Mary's College of Maryland. She is the author of Presenting Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1997), Young Adult Literature: The Heart of the Middle School Curriculum (1996), Jacqueline Woodson: The Real Thing (Scarecrow Press, 2003), and Teaching the Selected Works of Katherine Paterson (2007).
Connie S. Zitlow is Professor Emerita, Department of Education, Ohio Wesleyan University. She is the author of Teaching the Young Adult Novels of Walter Dean Myers, (2007), and Lost Masterworks of Young Adult Literature (Scarecrow, 2002).