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This article places YA in its context as a US tradition in which authors have expressed particular notions about the adolescent as a subject in relation to social, state, and family structures.

Her book project, Side­by­Side: The Abstract Recent Latinx young adult literature (YA) serves as a window into how authors narrate the promises and failures of cultural nationalism of past generations and how they imagine youth participating in revolutionary practices today, including accessing alternative forms of literature and education beyond established academia. Jiménez García also specializes in literature for youth and how marginalized communities have used children's and young adult texts as a platform for artistic expression, collective memory, and community advocacy.

She is particularly interested in the intersections of race, gender, nationalism, and youth culture in Puerto Rican literature of the diaspora. She is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in Latinx literature and culture.