ABSTRACT
Pfenninger here presents the literacy practices that emerged through research into an in-school, extra-curricular book club centred on a popular British book series, Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker books. Drawing upon Rosenblatt’s ideas centred on reader response, and on third space hybridity theory, this work explores the role out-of-school literacies may play within the third space. Pfenninger considers the possibilities of re-conceptualizing popular fiction to consider the ways in which young children negotiate spaces of critical literacy. Implicit, and often explicit, throughout the chapter is a radical sense of expanding boundaries of definition for place and identity in an educational setting.
