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Alex Flinn
Alex Flinn is an American author of novels for young adults. To date, she has written seven books that have been published.
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Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1996 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.
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Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African American author and poet. She has written at length on issues of race and gender, and is most famous for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Amy Tan
Amy Tan (; born February 19, 1952) is a Chinese American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. In 1993, Tan's adaptation of her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, became a commercially successful film. The book has been translated into 35 languages.
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An Na
An Na (born 1972) is an American author of children's literature. Like most authors, she was a fervent reader as a child. She eventually became a middle school English and History teacher. She turned to writing novels after taking a young adult literature class while enrolled in a M.F.A. program at Vermont College. She struck gold with her very first novel A Step From Heaven, which won the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature. The novel became a finalist for the National Book Award, and later found its way onto numerous "best book" lists.
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Anthony Horowitz
Anthony Horowitz (born 5 April 1956) is an English author and screenwriter. He has written many children's novels, including The Power of Five, Alex Rider and The Diamond Brothers series and has written over fifty books. He has also written extensively for television, adapting many of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels for the ITV series. He is the creator and writer of the ITV series ''Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders and Collision''.
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Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include award-winning plays such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible.
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Avi (author)
Edward Irving Wortis (born December 23, 1937), better known by the pen name Avi, is an American author of young adult and children's literature. He is a winner of both the Newbery Honor and Newbery Medal.
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Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.
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Brian Jacques
James Brian Jacques (pronounced "Jakes") (born 15 June 1939) is an English author, best known for his Redwall series of novels, as well as the Tribes of Redwall and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. He also completed two collections of short stories entitled The Ribbajack & Other Curious Yarns and Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales.
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Bruce Brooks
Bruce Brooks (born September 23, 1950) is an American author of young adult and children's literature.
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C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy.
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Cecily von Ziegesar
Cecily von Ziegesar (born Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar on 27 June 1970) is an American author best known for the young adult Gossip Girl books.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the most popular British novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters.
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Chris Crutcher
Chris Crutcher is a contemporary American fiction writer and a family therapist.
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Clive Barker
Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been adapted into motion pictures, notably the Hellraiser series.
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Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Funke (pronounced , FOON-ka) is a multiple award-winning German author of children's fiction. She was born on 10 December 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia. Funke is best known for her Inkworld trilogy, with the English translation of the third book, Inkdeath, released on 6 October 2008. Many of her books have now been translated into English. Her work fits mainly into the fantasy and adventure genres. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organisation, using some of their licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.
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Cynthia Voigt
Cynthia Voigt (born February 25, 1942) is an American author of books for young adults dealing with various topics such as adventure, mystery, racism and child abuse. Her first book in the Tillerman family series, Homecoming, was nominated for several international prizes and made into a 1996 film . Her novel ''Dicey's Song'' won the 1983 Newbery Medal.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French dramatist and duellist who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story. In these fictional works he is featured with an overly large nose; portraits suggest that he did have a big nose, though not nearly as large as described in Edmond Rostand's play and the subsequent works about him. A statue of him stands in the town of Bergerac, Dordogne.
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David Belbin
David Belbin (born 1958) is an English author primarily of Young Adult Fiction, along with books for both younger and older readers.
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Edmond Rostand
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. Another of Rostand's works, Les Romanesques, was adapted to the musical comedy, The Fantasticks.
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Edward Irving Wortis
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Ellen Wittlinger
Ellen Wittlinger (born in Belleville, Illinois on October 21, 1948) is an author for young adults, including ''Gracie's Girl and the Printz Honor book Hard Love''.
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Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer (, "Owen"; born 14 May 1965) is an Irish author and comedian. He is most famous as the creator of the Artemis Fowl series, but he has also achieved success with other books. His novels have been compared to J. K. Rowling books, and like Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl is used to describe the work of other writers (e.g. Jack Heath and Mark Walden). In September 2008, Colfer was commissioned to write the sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, entitled And Another Thing....
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Garth Nix
Garth Nix (born 19 July 1963 in Melbourne) is an Australian author of young adult fantasy novels, most notably the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. Garth Nix is not a pseudonym. He has frequently been asked this question and said, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the perfect name for a writer of fantasy. However, it is my real name."
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Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen (born May 17, 1939) is an American writer, who writes many young adult coming of age stories about the wilderness. He is the author of more than 200 books (many of which are out of print), 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays, all primarily for young adults and teens.
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Glendon Swarthout
Glendon Fred Swarthout (April 8, 1918, near Pinckney, Michigan – September 23, 1992, Scottsdale, Arizona) was an American writer.
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Greg Neri
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Harper Lee
Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American author best known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Despite being Lee's only published book, it led to Lee being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007. Lee has also been the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, but has always declined to make a speech.
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Homer
Homer (Ancient Greek: , Hómēros)
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Isobelle Carmody
Isobelle Jane Carmody (born 16 June 1958) is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's literature, and young adult literature.
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J. D. Salinger
Jerome David Salinger (, ; January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. His last original published work was in 1965; he gave his last interview in 1980.
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J. K. Rowling
Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE (born 31 July 1965; married name Murray), better known under the pen name J. K. Rowling (, ), is a British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived whilst on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies and been the basis for a popular series of films, in which Rowling had creative control serving as a producer in two of the seven instalments.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973), who pronounced his surname was a South African-born English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
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J.D. Salinger
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Jerry Spinelli
Jerry Spinelli (born February 1, 1941) is an author of children's novels on adolescence and early adulthood. He is best known for the novels Maniac Magee and Wringer.
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Joe Craig
Joe Craig (born 30 June 1981 in London) is an English writer, children's novelist and musician.
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John Green (author)
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John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937). He wrote a total of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Jonathan Trigell
Jonathan Trigell (born 1974) is a British author. His first novel, Boy A, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2004, the Waverton Good Read Award and the inaugural World Book Day Prize in 2008.
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Judy Blume
Judy Blume (born Judith Sussman; February 12, 1938) is an American author. She has written many novels for children and young adults which have exceeded sales of 80 million and been translated into 31 languages. Blume's novels for teenagers were among the first to tackle such controversial matters as racism (''Iggie's House), menstruation (Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.), divorce (It's Not the End of the World, Just As Long As We're Together), bullying (Blubber), masturbation (Deenie; Then Again, Maybe I Won't) and teen sex (Forever''), and as such have been the source of controversy over the appropriateness of such topics for her middle school audience. She is married with two children and a stepchild.
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Julie Anne Peters
Julie Anne Peters, born January 16, 1952, is an American children's author.
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Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
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Karen Hesse
Karen Hesse (born on August 29, 1952 Baltimore, Maryland) is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings.
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Kate Cann
Kate Cann, (born 1954) is an English journalist and writer of fiction. She resides in Wiltshire.
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Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson (born October 31, 1932) is a Newbery Award-winning American author of books for children.
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Kathryn Lasky
Kathryn Lasky (born June 24, 1944) is an American author whose work includes several Dear America books, The Royal Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series.
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KL Going
Kelly Louise Going (born August 21, 1973 in Rhinebeck, New York), known by her byline KL Going, is an American author most widely known for her Michael L. Printz Award Honor winning Young Adult novel Fat Kid Rules the World.
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Kristin Cast
Kristin Cast (born November 4, 1986) is the coauthor of the House of Night series for Young Adults with her mother, P.C. Cast.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Linda Newbery
Linda Newbery is a British author, who began writing as a young adult author but has now broadened her range to encompass all ages. Now a full-time writer, she published her first novel Run with the Hare in 1988, while still working as an English teacher in a comprehensive school.
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Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry (born Lois Ann Hammersberg on March 20, 1937) is an American author of children's literature. She began her career as a photographer and a freelance journalist during the early 1970s. Her work as a journalist drew the attention of Houghton Mifflin and they encouraged her to write her first children's book, A Summer to Die, which was published in 1977 (when Lowry was 40 years old). She has since written more than 30 books for children and published an autobiography. Two of her works have been awarded the prestigious Newbery Medal: Number the Stars in 1990, and The Giver in 1994.
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Lucy Christopher
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Malorie Blackman
Malorie Blackman, author of literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues. Her critically and popularly acclaimed Noughts & Crosses series uses the setting of a fictional dystopia to explore racism.
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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
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Maureen Johnson
Maureen Johnson (b. February 16, 1973, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American author of young adult fiction. Her first book, The Key to the Golden Firebird, was published in May 2004. Since then, she has published five more books, all for young adults. Johnson is also the founder of the political networking site [http://yaforobama.ning.com/ YA for Obama].
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou (; born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928) is an American autobiographer and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her first seventeen years. It brought her international recognition, and was nominated for a National Book Award. She has been awarded over 30 honorary degrees and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1971 volume of poetry, ''Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie''.
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Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot (born Meggin Patricia Cabot on February 1, 1967 in Bloomington, Indiana, United States) is an
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Megan McCafferty
Megan Fitzmorris McCafferty (born 1973) is an American author known for The New York Times bestselling Jessica Darling series of young-adult novels published between 2001 and 2009. McCafferty gained international attention in 2006 when novelist Kaavya Viswanathan was accused of plagiarizing the first two Jessica Darling novels.
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Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess (born 25 April 1954) is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of Junk, which was published in the shadow of the film of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, and dealt with the trendy and controversial idea of heroin-addicted teenagers. Junk soon became, at least in Britain, one of the best-known young adult books of the decade.
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Nancy Garden
Nancy Garden (born May 15, 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American author of children's and young adult literature.
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Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American author and political consultant. With the publication of The Beauty Myth, she became a leading spokesperson of what was later described as the third-wave of the feminist movement. She remains an advocate of feminist causes and progressive politics, with a more recent emphasis on arguing that there has been a deterioration of democratic institutions in the United States.
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Nathanial Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.
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P. C. Cast
Phyllis Christine Cast (born 1960) is an American romance/fantasy author, known for the House of Night series she writes with her daughter Kristin Cast, as well as her own Goddess Summoning and Partholon book series.
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Paul Zindel
Paul Zindel Jr. (15 May 1936 – 27 March 2003) was an American playwright, author, and educator.
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Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, and his fictional biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. The first of His Dark Materials has been turned into the film The Golden Compass and the first two books from his Sally Lockhart series have been adapted for television.
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Rae Bridgman
Rae Bridgman is a Canadian anthropologist, and the author/illustrator of The MiddleGate Books, a series of fantasy books for children inspired by the Narcisse Snake Pits of Narcisse, Manitoba -- The Serpent’s Spell (McNally Robinson Book for Young People finalist 2006), Amber Ambrosia and Fish and Sphinx (Speculative Literature Foundation Honourable Mention 2008). The books feature the adventures of young cousins Wil and Sophie who live in the secret, magical city of MiddleGate, which has been beset by the return of an ancient secret society known as the Serpent's Chain.
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Ray Bradbury
Raymond Douglas "Ray" Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951), Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th and 21st century American writers of speculative fiction. Many of Bradbury's works have been adapted into television shows or films.
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Rick Riordan
Richard Russell "Rick" Riordan, Jr. (born June 5, 1964) is the author of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He also wrote the Tres Navarre mystery series for adults and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series. He helped develop the 10 books in The 39 Clues series, published by Scholastic Corporation, and wrote the first book in the series, The Maze of Bones.
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Rob Thomas (writer)
:''This article is about the writer Rob Thomas. For other people with this name see Rob Thomas (disambiguation).
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Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was one of the first writers to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s, with unvarnished science fiction. He was among the first authors of bestselling, novel-length science fiction in the modern, mass-market era. For many years, Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.
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Robert Cormier
Robert Edmund Cormier (January 17, 1925 – November 2, 2000) was an American author, columnist and reporter, known for his deeply pessimistic, downbeat literature. His most popular works include I Am the Cheese, After the First Death, We All Fall Down and The Chocolate War, all of which have won awards. The Chocolate War was challenged in multiple libraries. His books often are concerned with themes such as abuse, mental illness, violence, revenge, betrayal and conspiracy. In most of his novels, the protagonists do not win.
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Rosa Guy
Rosa Cuthbert Guy (born September 1, 1925 in Trinidad) is an American writer.
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S. E. Hinton
Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American author best known for her young adult novel The Outsiders.
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S.E. Hinton
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Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen (b. June 6, 1970, in Evanston, Illinois) is an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Sarah Trimmer
Sarah Trimmer (née Kirby) (6 January 1741 – 15 December 1810) was a noted writer and critic of British children's literature in the eighteenth century. Her periodical, The Guardian of Education, helped to define the emerging genre by seriously reviewing children's literature for the first time; it also provided the first history of children's literature, establishing a canon of the early landmarks of the genre that scholars still use today. Trimmer's most popular children's book, Fabulous Histories, inspired numerous children's animal stories and remained in print for over a century.
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Scott Westerfeld
Scott Westerfeld (born May 5, 1963) is an American author of science fiction. He was born in the U.S. state of Texas and now divides his time between Sydney, Australia and New York City, USA. His book ''Evolution's Darling was a New York Times Notable Book (2000), and won a Special Citation for the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award. The Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds are parts one and two of the same book, originally titled Succession. In 2005 it was published in the UK as one book under the title The Risen Empire''.
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Sophocles
Sophocles ( Sophoklēs, his name was very likely pronounced ; (c. 497/6 BCE - winter 406/5 BCE) was the second of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus and earlier than those of Euripides. According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Sophocles wrote 123 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Trachinian Women, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most-feted playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. Sophocles competed in around 30 competitions; he won perhaps 24 and was never judged lower than second place; in comparison, Aeschylus won 14 competitions and was defeated by Sophocles at times, while Euripides won only 4 competitions.
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Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky (born January 25, 1970) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director best known for the coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999). He also wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film Rent, and was co-creator, executive producer, and writer of the CBS television series Jericho, which began airing in 2006.
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Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation.
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Stephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer (born December 24, 1973), née Morgan, is an American author best known for her vampire romance series Twilight. The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies globally, with translations into 37 different languages. Meyer is also the author of the adult science-fiction novel The Host.
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Steve Berman
This article is about the writer. For the lawyer, see Steve Berman (lawyer); for the Mayor of Gilbert, Arizona see Steven M. Berman.
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Susan Cooper
Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English author best known for The Dark Is Rising, an award-winning five-volume fantasy saga set in and around England and Wales. The books incorporate traditional British mythology (Arthurian and folkloric elements) with original material (e.g. "the Old Ones") and was eventually made into a movie, The Seeker (film). She has written works for children, adolescents and adults.
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Susan Eloise Hinton
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Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and author.
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956 and they lived together first in the United States and then England, having two children together: Frieda and Nicholas. Following a long struggle with depression and a marital separation, Plath committed suicide in 1963. Controversy continues to surround the events of her life and death, as well as her writing and legacy.
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Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) born Thomas Lanier Williams, was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee", the Southeastern U.S. state, his father's birthplace.
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Tim Bowler
'Tim Bowler' is the author of nineteen books for children, teenagers and young adults. He has won 15 awards, including the Carnegie Medal, the pre-eminent UK award for children's literature, for his novel River Boy.
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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 1931) is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved.
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V.C. Andrews
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Virginia Euwer Wolff
Virginia Euwer Wolff is a prize-winning American author of children's literature, born in Portland, Oregon 25 Aug 1937. She attended Oregon Episcopal School, at that time only an all girls school called St. Helen's Hall, before attending Smith College. She married Arthur Richard Wolff in 1959. They divorced in 1976.
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Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers, August 12, 1937, Martinsburg, West Virginia) is an African American author of young adult literature. Myers has written over fifty books, including novels and nonfiction works. He has won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times. One of his novels, Fallen Angels, has made the American Library Association's list of frequently challenged books, due to adult language and its realistic depiction of the Vietnam War. Most of Myers' works are based in Harlem. His novels frequently portray urban teenagers struggling with gang life, drug use, violence, and peer pressure, who are trying to find ways out of the life they are born into.
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Hollywood Undead - Young
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- Duration: 3:35
- Published: 16 Jun 2009
- Uploaded: 04 Nov 2011
- Author: HollywoodUndeadVEVO
Get your copy of the new Hollywood Undead album, AMERICAN TRAGEDY, now! Featuring "Been To Hell," "Hear Me Now," "Comin In Hot" and "Coming Back Down", the new album is available at all major retailers. Download yours now on iTunes: bit.ly/HU-AT-iTunes. Music video by Hollywood Undead performing Young. (C) 2009 A&M/Octone
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Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa - Young, Wild & Free Ft. Bruno Mars (Audio)
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- Duration: 3:28
- Published: 10 Oct 2011
- Uploaded: 05 Nov 2011
- Author: AtlanticVideos
BUY IT @ iTUNES: atlr.ec Check out the new single from Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa, featuring Bruno Mars from the soundtrack to their forthcoming film "Mac and Devin Go to High School"!
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Eric Burdon and The Animals - When I Was Young (1967) HD & HQ
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- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 29 Dec 2008
- Uploaded: 04 Nov 2011
- Author: magusmagic4
Eric Burdon & The Animals - When I Was Young (1967). Eric Burdon (vocals) Barry Jenkins (drums) John Weider (guitar/violin) Vic Briggs (guitar) Danny McCulloch (bass) This clip is available in high definition playback.
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Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks
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- Duration: 4:37
- Published: 29 Aug 2006
- Uploaded: 04 Nov 2011
- Author: wichitarecordings
Music video for Peter, Bjorn & John's single "Young Folks" featuring Victoria Bergsman of The Concretes. www.wichita-recordings.com
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The Naked And Famous - Young Blood
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- Duration: 3:53
- Published: 14 May 2010
- Uploaded: 04 Nov 2011
- Author: tnafofficial
Directed by Campbell Hooper and Joel Kefali for Special Problems, taken from the debut album 'Passive Me, Aggressive You' by The Naked And Famous. UK - Out Now: Vinyl 7" + signed poster bit.ly iTunes: bit.ly UK - Out Now: iTunes bit.ly US - Out Now: iTunes bit.ly NZ - Out Now: iTunes bit.ly Aus - Out Now: iTunes bit.ly
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Kenny Chesney - Young
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- Duration: 3:56
- Published: 26 Nov 2009
- Uploaded: 04 Nov 2011
- Author: KennyChesneyVEVO
Music video by Kenny Chesney performing Young. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 1479613 (C) 2003 BMG Music
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"Young Forever" Jay-Z | Mr. Hudson (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Check out the official music video for "Young Forever"! Jay-Z! Mr. Hudson! The Blueprint 3 available in stores and online now!
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Young Money - Bed Rock
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- Duration: 4:52
- Published: 16 Dec 2009
- Uploaded: 04 Nov 2011
- Author: YoungMoneyVEVO
Music video by Young Money performing Bed Rock. (C) 2009 Cash Money Records Inc.
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The Band Perry - If I Die Young
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- Duration: 3:50
- Published: 28 May 2010
- Uploaded: 04 Nov 2011
- Author: TheBandPerryVEVO
Music video by The Band Perry performing If I Die Young. (C) 2010 Republic Nashville Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Alphaville - Forever Young ~Official Video
Forever Young by Alphaville! Due to copyrights and other nonsense, some of these videos may have their audio removed, if that is the case, the video will be deleted as soon as possible.
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Brandon Flowers - Only The Young
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- Duration: 4:30
- Published: 12 Oct 2010
- Uploaded: 04 Nov 2011
- Author: BrandonFlowersVEVO
Music video by Brandon Flowers performing Only The Young. (C) 2010 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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Demrick (aka Young De) Ft. B-Real "Streets Don't Love You Back" Music Video
Demrick (aka Young De) featuring B-Real music video "Streets Don't Love You Back" was shot and directed in Los Angeles by Matt Alonzo of Skee.TV (director of hit videos for Soulja Boy, New Boyz ,The Game, Chris Cornell, Ice Cube, Xzibit, etc.) and Michael Busalacchi of Skee.TV "Streets Don't Love You Back" appears on Demrick's recently released mixtape, De is for Demrick, and features B-REAL of the legendary Cypress Hill as well as production by APATHY (GBC and Demigodz).
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The Killers - When You Were Young
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- Duration: 5:16
- Published: 16 Jun 2009
- Uploaded: 04 Nov 2011
- Author: TheKillersVEVO
Music video by The Killers performing When You Were Young. (C) 2006 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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Young the Giant - "My Body" (Official Video)
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- Duration: 4:11
- Published: 15 Feb 2011
- Uploaded: 06 Nov 2011
- Author: YoungtheGiant
© 2011 WMG Directed by Justin Francis Buy the debut album at iTunes itunes.apple.com www.youngthegiant.com http www.twitter.com www.mypsace.com
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Young De & Xzibit (Feat. Mykestro) - Figure It Out
Skee.TV presents Young De & Xzibit (Feat. Mykestro) - Figure It Out Directed & Edited by Matt Alonzo (Skee.tv)
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Alphaville - Forever Young (with lyrics)
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- Duration: 3:50
- Published: 25 Jun 2008
- Uploaded: 05 Nov 2011
- Author: themightychickens
From Alphavilles debut album Forever Young (1984) Brilliant piano cover by Kyle Landry, without a doubt one of the best musicians on Youtube: www.youtube.com - You should subscribe to him, he's awesome :) 100.000 views: 24. May 2009. 500.000 views: 10. February 2010. 1.000.000 views: 23. April 2010. 2.000.000 views: 07. July 2010. 5000000 views: 16. February 2011.
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Phoenix - Too Young
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- Duration: 3:24
- Published: 04 Dec 2007
- Uploaded: 05 Nov 2011
- Author: Astralwerks
Music video by Phoenix performing Too Young (Clip).
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Will Young - Come On
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- Duration: 3:28
- Published: 22 Oct 2011
- Uploaded: 05 Nov 2011
- Author: willyoungVEVO
Music video by Will Young performing Come On. (C) 2011 XIX Management UK Limited under exclusive licence to Ronagold Limited
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MIKA, RedOne - Kick Ass (We Are Young)
Music video by MIKA vs. RedOne performing Kick Ass (We Are Young). (C) 2010 Casablanca Music, LLC
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Black Sabbath Die Young
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- Duration: 4:08
- Published: 27 Jan 2007
- Uploaded: 05 Nov 2011
- Author: sentenced666
REST IN PEACE one of the best singers ever to bless us, but most importantly a great human being RONNIE JAMES fucking DIO. Devil Horns at half mast everybody. \,,/ DRUMS PLAYED BY WILLIAM WARD, not Vinnie Appice. Without the annoying interview just before the solo
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Neil Young - Heart Of Gold
Live from 1971. Neil digs around in his pockets trying to find the right harp and then plays a new song...Heart of Gold.
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Will Young - Jealousy
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- Duration: 3:19
- Published: 28 Jul 2011
- Uploaded: 05 Nov 2011
- Author: willyoungVEVO
Music video by Will Young performing Jealousy. (c) 2011 XIX Management UK Limited under exclusive licence to Ronagold Limited
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11 Nov 2011
The schoolchildren impressed former President A P J Abdul Kalam with their innovative ideas and inventions. The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), on Friday became a hub for kids with...
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The expectation surrounding England is refreshingly realistic these days and as that sentiment is compounded by the arrival of world champions Spain, Fabio Capello will turn to youth tomorrow in the...
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10 Nov 2011
What parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle or friend giving a gift to a young child has not spent a handfull of money, hours of time hunting for just the right thing and spent more money and time to wrap...
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J. K. Rowling (born 1965): British author, J.K. Rowling is an award winning young-adult author today and arguably the most successful. Being the author of the extremely successful and critically well received Harry Potter series, her books have been sold in more than 400 million copies worldwide and are translated into more than 63 languages. She is also the first billionaire-author (in terms of US-dollars).
J.D. Salinger (1919–2010): American author of the young adult classic The Catcher in the Rye.
Elizabeth Scott (born 1972) : American author, writes romance along with contemporary issue fiction, The Unwritten Rule, Stealing Heaven.
Jerry Spinelli (born 1941): Very prolific American author of young adult fare such as Stargirl and Eggs.
Jonathan Stroud (born 1970): British author, wrote the best-selling Bartimaeus Trilogy amongst other books.
Cecily von Ziegesar (born 1970): American author of the popular teen novels Gossip Girl.
Mark Walden (born 197?): British author, wrote the bestselling H.I.V.E. series.
Scott Westerfeld (born 1963): Scott has written books such as the Uglies series which contains the best selling books Uglies Pretties Specials and Extras. He also wrote So Yesterday and Peeps as well as the Midnighters trilogy. So Yesterday won an award for American Library Association 2005 best book for young adults, and Uglies and Peeps got the 2006 American Library Association best book for young adults award.
Edward Irving Wortis (pen name Avi; born 1937): American author of critically acclaimed young adult historical fiction, such as Something Upstairs and The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.
Paul Zindel (1936–2003): This Pulitzer-Prize winning American author wrote over 40 young adult novels, including The Pigman. His books have sold over 10 million copies and have been translated into languages all over the globe.
Paul Zindel's The Pigman (1968) (teen smoking, drinking, pranks, peer pressure)
Paul Zindel's My Darling, My Hamburger (1969) (a teen's first sexual encounter and abortion)
Judy Blume's Forever (1975) (a teen's first sexual encounter and contraception)
Nancy Garden's Annie on My Mind (1982) (two high-school girls who fall in love)
Shelley Stoehr's Crosses (1991) (self-mutilation)
Chris Crutcher's Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes (1993) (religion, peer pressure, child abuse, abortion, suicide)
Melvin Burgess's Junk (1996) (US title: Smack (heroin addiction, teenage prostitution, squatting)
Rob Thomas's Rats Saw God (1996) (drugs, sex)
David Belbin's Love Lessons (1998) (teacher/student sexual affair)
Linda Glovach's Beauty Queen (1998) (teenage exotic dancing and heroin addiction)
Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak (1999) (rape)
Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) (suicide, teenage sexuality, drug use, and abusive relationships)
Sarah Dessen's Dreamland (2000) (emotionally, mentally, and physically abusive relationships, drug abuse, and running away)
Alex Flinn's Breathing Underwater (2001) (emotionally, mentally, and physically abusive relationships)
Alex Sanchez's Rainbow Boys (2001) (high school boys exploring gay sex, accepting their sexuality, and falling in love)
Patricia McCormick's Cut (2001) (self-mutilation)
Linda Newbery's The Shell House (2002) (a split narrative, one concerning a homosexual relationship during the First World War, the other in the present day concerning a possible gay relationship between teenage boys)
KL Going's Fat Kid Rules The World (2003) (obesity, depression, homelessness, drug addiction, social alienation)
Alice Hoffman's Green Angel (2003) (self-mutilation)
Angela Johnson's The First Part Last (2003) (teen fatherhood)
Jonathan Trigell's Boy A (2004) (rehabilitation, suicide, abuse, media)
Julie Anne Peters' Luna (2004) (transsexuality)
John Green's Looking for Alaska (2005) (Under age drinking, smoking, oral sex)
Steve Berman's Vintage: A Ghost Story (2007) (depressed gay boy who deals with suicide and loneliness)
An Na's The Fold (2008) (plastic surgery, race relations, lesbianism)
Elizabeth Scott's Living Dead Girl (2008) (kidnapping, rape, oral sex, violence)
Greg Neri Surf Mules (2009) (drug trafficking)
Lucy Christopher Stolen (2010) (kidnapping)
Joanne Hichens's Stained (2009) (sexual abuse, teen pregnancy, post-natal depression, drugs, suicide)
David-Matthew Barnes's Mesmerized (2010) (gay teen love, hate crime) and Swimming to Chicago (2011) (gay teen love, teen pregnancy)
Children's literature
Children's literature periodicals
Gay male teen fiction
Lesbian teen fiction
List of young adult authors
Young Adult Library Services Association
Light novel
List of light novels
Novella
Visual novel
Verse novel
Authors and Artists for Young Adults, serial publication (Gale, 1989+) with bio-bibliographies of novelists, poets, dramatists, filmmakers, cartoonists, painters, architects, and photographers which appeal to teenagers. Entries typically are six to twelve pages in length, have a black & white photo of the author/artist and other illustrations. Recent volumes include a sidebar recommending similar books/works the reader might like also.
ALA Best Books for Young Adults by YALSA, edited by Holly Koelling.
Books for the Teen Age, annual book list selected by teens for teens, sponsored by the New York Public Library
More Outstanding Books for the College Bound, by YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association), professional organization for librarians serving teens in either public libraries or school library/media centers; a division of ALA.
Diana Tixier Herald. (2003) Teen Genreflecting. 2nd ed. Wesport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited.
Judging a Book by Its Cover: Publishing Trends in Young Adult Literature, by Cat Yampbell, The Lion and the Unicorn; Sep 2005; 29:3; Children's Module, The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp348–372, at p350-351.
Frances FitzGerald, "The Influence of Anxiety" in Harper's, September 2004, p. 62-70
Grenby, Matthew. “Introduction.” The Guardian of Education. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2002. ISBN 1843710110
In defense of mean-girl books, by Lianne George, Macleans, 15 Oct 2007.
"New Trend in Teen Fiction: Racy Reads; Parents Alarmed that Books are More 'Sex and the City' than Nancy Drew", by Janet Shamlian, NBC News, 15 Aug 2005.
"Now and Forever: The Power of Sex in Young Adult Literature," by Tanya Lee Stone, VOYA, Feb 2006.
NPR: Multicultural Books Offer Diverse Reading Experience Michel Martin interviews ALA President Loriene Roy, 19 Jul 2007.
"Racy Reading; Gossip Girl Series is Latest Installment in Provocative Teen Fiction, and It's As Popular As It Is Controversial," by Linda Shrieves, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Aug 2005.
"Teens and their Literature are Rocking the Marketplace", Seattle Post Intelligencer, 7 Mar 2007.
"Teens Reading More Challenging Books", WDBJ-7, 5 May 2007.
"Who Says Teens Don't Read?" by Erinn Hutkin, Roanoake Times, 30 Oct 2007.
"Young Adult Fiction: Wild Things," by Naomi Wolf, The New York Times, 12 Mar 2006.
A Change in the Weather by Robert Gould, a modern-day fairy tale for young adults.
The Pearson Prize – Teen Choice Book Award, open to any book appealing to young adults and published in English
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Although YA literature shares the fundamental elements of character, plot, setting, theme, and style common to other genres of fiction, theme and style are often subordinated to the more tangible basic narrative elements such as plot, setting, and character, which appeal more readily to younger readers. The vast majority of YA stories portray an adolescent as the protagonist, rather than an adult or a child.
It is generally agreed that Young Adult Literature is literature written for adolescent readers, and in some cases published by adolescent writers. The subject matter and story lines are typically consistent with the age and experience of the main character, but beyond that YA stories span the entire spectrum of fiction genres. Themes in YA stories often focus on the challenges of youth, so much so that the entire age category is sometimes referred to as problem novels or coming of age novels. Writing styles of YA stories range widely, from the richness of literary style to the clarity and speed of the unobtrusive and even free verse.
History of young-adult fiction
The first recognition of young adults as a distinct group was by Sarah Trimmer, who in 1802 described "young adulthood" as lasting from ages 14 to 21. In her self-founded children's literature periodical, The Guardian of Education, Trimmer introduced the terms "Books for Children" (for those under fourteen) and "Books for Young Persons" (for those between fourteen and twenty-one), establishing terms of reference for young adult literature that remain in use today. However, nineteenth-century publishers did not specifically market to young readers, and adolescent culture did not exist in a modern sense.Beginning in the 1920s, it was said that "this was the first time when it became clear that the young were a separate generation" (Cart 43); but multiple novels that fit into the YA category had been published long before. In the nineteenth century there are several early examples that appealed to young readers including The Swiss Family Robinson (1812), Waverley (1814), Oliver Twist (1838), The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), Great Expectations (1860), Alice in Wonderland (1865), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Kidnapped (1886), The Jungle Book (1894) and ''Moonfleet (1898).
A few other novels that were published around the turn of the century include Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Heidi, by Johanna Spyri, and Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. In 1937 The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien, was published, and Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) also is a beloved by adolescents today. Some claim that the first real young adult novel was The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, and that it opened up a whole new eye to what types of texts adolescent readers read. Following this novel, other classic texts such as Harper Lee's, To Kill a Mockingbird; Maya Angelou's novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; and Toni Morrison's, The Bluest Eye all entered the genre of Young Adult Literature as well, along with many others.
As the decades moved on, the stormy sixties became the era "when the 'under 30' generation became a subject of popular concern, and that research on adolescence began to emerge. It would also be the decade when literature for adolescents could be said to have come into its own" (Cart 43). For this reason others adopt The Outsiders, published in 1967 by S. E. Hinton who at the time was only a teenager, as the initiator of the adolescent literature genre. This book sparked talk about what adolescents face, and that adolescents can produce books that they can relate to. 1967 was the year when a multitude of YA books began to be seen, and ever since YA lit has grown into a thriving, popular genre. In the 1970s, what has become to be known as the "fab five" were published. "For the record, the fab five are: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou; The Friends by Rosa Guy; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath; Bless the Beasts and Children by Glendon Swarthout; and Deathwatch by Robb White" (Cart 77).
In the 1950s, shortly before the advent of modern publishing for the teen romance market, two novels drew the attention of adolescent readers: The Catcher in the Rye (1951), and Lord of the Flies (1954). Unlike more-recent fiction classified as YA, these two were written with an adult audience in mind.
The modern classification of young-adult fiction originated during the 1950s and 1960s, especially after the publication of S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders. This book focused on a group of teens not yet represented and instead of having the nostalgic tone that was typical in young adult books written by adults, it displayed a truer, darker side of young adult life because it was written by a young adult.
As publishers began to focus on the emerging adolescent market, booksellers and libraries, in turn, began creating YA sections distinct from either children's literature or novels written for adults. The 1970s to the mid-1980s have been described as the golden age of young-adult fiction—when challenging novels began speaking directly to the interests of the identified adolescent market.
In the 1980s: "the 1980s contained a large amount of Young Adult publications which pushed the threshold of topics that adolescents faced such as rape, suicide, parental death, and murder. Also in the 1980s, "teenagers seemed to want to read about something closer to their daily lives-romance novels were revived" (Cart 99). In the 1990s, Young Adult Literature pushed adolescent issues even further by including topics such as, drinking, sexuality, drug use, identity, beauty, and even teen pregnancy" (Lubar). Also in the 1990s, it seemed as though the era of Young Adult Literature was going to lose steam but "due in part to an increase in the number of teenagers in the 1990s the field matured, blossomed, and came into its own with the better written, more serious, and more varied young adult books published during the last two decades" (Tomlinson and Lynch-Brown 5).
Teens have also become more and more marketable to text publications, bookstores have begun dedicating entire sections of their bookshelves to "teen" and "young adult" novels and texts, and movies are now produced more often that portray popular young adult texts with adolescent protagonists. As the genre continues to become more popular, and authors continue to publish texts that adolescents can relate to, Young Adult Literature will continue to be read and supported by adolescent and adult readers alike.
Examples of other novels that predate the young-adult classification, but that are now frequently presented alongside YA novels are :
Popular contributions to young-adult fiction
Malorie Blackman (born 1962): British author of the award winning Noughts & Crosses Series and Boys Don't Cry.
Stephenie Meyer (born 1973): American creator of the popular vampire romance franchise Twilight.
Genre
Young Adult Literature has become a genre which covers various text types including: novels, graphic novels, short stories, and poetry. Much of the literature published consists of young adult fiction which in itself contains several different types of text, but the genre also contains other various types of non-fiction such as biographies, autobiographies, journal entries/diaries, and letters. Although many genres exist in young adult literature, the problem novel tends to be the most popular among young readers. Problem novel refers to young adult novels in the realistic fiction category that “addresses personal and social issues across socioeconomic boundaries and within both traditional and nontraditional family structures” (Cole 98). Memoirs are also popular forms of Young Adult Literature. The genre itself has been challenged due its seemingly mature content by critics of Young Adult Literature, but "other converted critics have embraced Young Adult so dearly that they have scoured the canon for any classics they could adopt into the YA family" (Stephens 2007).
Themes
Young Adult Literature uses a wide array of themes in order to appeal to a wide variety of adolescent readers. Some of these themes include: identity, sexuality, science fiction, depression, suicide, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, familial struggles, bullying, and numerous others. Some issues that are talked about in young adult literature are things such as friendship, love, race, money, divorce, relationships within families. “The culture that surrounds and absorbs young adults plays a huge role in their lives. Young Adult Literature explores themes important and crucial to adolescence such as relationships to authority figures, peer pressure and ensuing experimentations, issues of diversity as it relates to gender, sociocultural, and/or socioeconomic status. Primarily, the focus is centered around a young lead character and the reader experiences emotions, situations, and the like through this character and is able to see how these problems/situations are resolved. It also needs to play a significant role in how we approach this group and the books we offer them to read” (Lesesne 14). Reading about issues that adolescents can relate to allows them to identify with a particular character, and creates a sense of security when experiencing something that is going on within their lives. "Whether you call them archetypes or stereotypes, there are certain experiences and certain kinds of people that are common to adolescents. Reading about it may help a young person validate his or her own experience and make some kind of meaning out of it" (Blasingame, 12). In a paper written by April Dawn Wells, she discovers seventeen common traits of young adult novels. These include: “friendship, getting into trouble, interest in the opposite sex, money, divorce, single parents, remarriage, problems with parents, grandparents, younger siblings, concern over grades/school, popularity, puberty, race, death, neighborhood, and job/working.
Characteristics
Young adult literature contains specific characteristics that are present throughout the genre. These characteristics encompass: “multi-themed story, tension versus shock effect, memorable characters, accurate facts and details, no unlikely coincidences, original idea, memorable voice, authentic dialogue, effective/clear writing style, sense of humor, widespread appeal, intriguing openings and memorable closings” (Cole 61-65). Other characteristics of Young Adult Literature include: "(1) Characters and issues young readers can identify with; those issues and characters are treated in a way that does not invalidate, minimize, or devalue them; (2) Is framed in language that young readers can understand; (3) Emphasizes plot above everything else; and (4)Is written for an audience of young adults" (Blasingame 11). Overall, Young Adult Literature needs to contain specific elements that will not only interest adolescent readers, but elements that relate directly to real situations adolescents face, and contain believable, empathetic characters.
Usage in Education
Research suggests young adult literature can be advantageous to reluctant student readers by addressing their needs. Authors who write young adult literature have an adolescent’s age and interests in mind. The language and plots of young adult literature are similar to what students are accustomed to finding in reality, television, movies, and popular culture (Bucher, Manning, 328-332).The following are criteria that researchers have come up with to evaluate the effectiveness of young adult literature in the classroom (Bucher and Manning, 9-10). • The subject matter should reflect age and development by addressing their interest levels, reading and thinking levels. • The content should deal with contemporary issues and experiences with characters adolescents can relate. • Subjects can relate to dealing with parents and adults, illness and death, peer pressure in regards to drugs, sex, and the complications of addiction and pregnancy. • The content should consider existing global concerns such as cultural, social, and gender diversity; environmental and political issues as it relates to adolescents.
Young Adult Literature has been integrated into classrooms in order to increase student interest in reading. Research has been performed on what type of impact the introduction YA Lit has on students, particularly adolescent males and struggling readers: "Researchers have shown that introducing YA Literature to males improves their reading ability. YA Literature, because of its range of authors and story types, is an appropriate literature for every adolescent male who needs compelling material that speaks to him" (Gill). Research shows that not only adolescent males have been labeled as reluctant readers, struggling readers use reluctance as a coping mechanism. Young Adult Literature has been used to open up the door of reading literature to these readers as well: "When voluntary reading declines, the problems of struggling readers are only aggravated. By allowing adolescents to read good young adult literature, educators are able to encourage independent reading, which will, in turn, help adolescents develop the skills necessary to succeed" (Bucher and Manning).
Another reason that Young Adult Literature has been incorporated into classrooms is to be paired with classic texts that are traditionally read in classrooms, and required by many schools curricula. Using YA Lit alongside a canonical piece of text can increase a students comprehension of the common themes the various texts have, and make reading a classic text more enjoyable: "Young adult literature can spark interest in the classics and vice versa. Although it's clear that young adult literature is more accessible, that doesn't warrant denying the classics to struggling readers. The classics shouldn't be reserved for exceptional students, and Young Adult Literature shouldn't be reserved for at-risk readers. (Cole 513).
Situational Archetypes in Literature The classic canon in high school literature classes can often be too overwhelming and far removed from everyday life of the adolescence. Sarah K. Herz and Donald Gallo suggest using archetypes from traditional literature to “build bridges” to the classics through young adult literature. Young Adult Literature offers teachers an effective way to introduce the study of archetypes in literature by grouping a variety of titles around archetypal situations and characters. Herz and Gallo suggest before or after studying a traditional classic or contemporary novel it is a good time to introduce the concept of archetypes in literature. Based on the Jungian theory of archetypes, consider a literary archetype as a character type or theme which recurs frequently in literature (Herz and Gallo, 64-66). Recognizing archetypes in literature will help students build the foundation for making connection among various works of literature. Students can begin to grasp and identify the archetypal images and patterns that appear in new forms. Archetypes also help students become more conscious of an author’s style and to think about and recognize the way in which a particular writer develops a character or story (Herz and Gallo, 66).
Using Classic Situational Archetypes in the Classroom A partial list of classic situational literary archetypes as comprised by Herz and Gallo in two separate editions of their book, From Hinton to Hamlet: Building Bridges between Young Adult Literature and the Classics. The Young Adult Novels are paired with Classic Novels based on situational archetypes.(Herz and Gallo, 66-70).
Birth/Death/Rebirth:
Presents the main character in a conflict. Through pain and suffering, the character’s spirit survives the fight and through a development of self awareness the main character is reborn.
Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn / Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Fall: Expulsion from Eden.
The main character is expelled because of undesirable actions on his or her part.
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson / The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne
The Journey.
The protagonist takes journey, either physically or emotionally, and brings meaning in their life.
The Crazy Horse Electric Game by Chris Crutcher / The Odyssey by Homer and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
The Test or Trial.
The main character experiences growth and change; he or she experiences a transformation.
The True Confessions by Charlotte Doyle by Avi, Permanent Connections by Sue Ellen Bridgers, Dancing on Dark Waters by Alden Carter, and Driver's Ed. by Caroline Cooney / The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane and The Color Purple by Alice Walker.
Annihilation; Absurdity; Total Oblivion.
In order to exist in an unbearable world, the main character accepts that life is “absurd, ridiculous, and ironic”.
The Giver by Lois Lowry / Catch 22 by Joseph Heller and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr..
Parental Conflicts and Relationships.
The protagonist deals with parental conflict by rejecting or bonding with parents.
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume, Midnight Hour Encores by Bruce Brooks, Ironman by Chris Crutcher, and The Runner by Cynthia Voigt / Ordinary People by Judith Guest, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.
The Wise Old Woman or Man.
This figure protects or assists the main character in facing challenges.
Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse, Memoirs of a Bookbat by Kathryn Lasky, Jacob I have Loved by Katherine Paterson, and Remembering The Good Times by Richard Peck / To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
The Hero.
The main character leaves his or her community to go on an adventure, performing actions that bring honor to the community.
Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher and Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff / A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.
The Sacrificial Redeemer.
The protagonist is willing to die for a belief; the main character maintains a strong sense of morality.
The Chocolate War and The Bumblebee Flies Anyway by Robert Cormier / Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and Antigone by Sophocles.
Other suggestions for classical/young adult text pairings using YA publications (List generated by Joan Kaywell, as cited in Cole 515-516):
Classical Text / Young Adult Text / Common Themes / Topics
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee / Monster by Walter Dean Myers / Trial: Guilty before Innocent
Lord of the Flies by William Golding / The Clique by Lisi Harrison / Use and Abuse of Power
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain / The Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis / Prejudice
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury / Feed by M. T. Anderson / Exploring the Future
Dracula by Bram Stoker / Twilight by Stephenie Meyer / Vampires
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne / Sandpiper by Ellen Wittlinger / Sexual Behavior Alienation
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger / America by E. R. Frank / Mental Illness Rebellion
Edgy content
From its very beginning, young-adult fiction has portrayed teens confronting situations and social issues that have pushed the edge of then-acceptable content. Such novels and their content are sometimes referred to as "edgy."In particular, authors and publishers have repeatedly pushed the boundaries of what was previously considered acceptable regarding human sexuality. Examples include:
YA novels currently in print include content about peer pressure, illness, divorce, drugs, gangs, crime, violence, sexuality, incest, oral sex, and female/male rape. Critics of such content argue that the novels encourage destructive or immoral behavior. Others argue that fictional portrayal of teens successfully addressing difficult situations and confronting social issues helps readers deal with real-life challenges.
Debate continues regarding the amount and nature of violence and profanity appropriate in young-adult fiction.
Hyphens (young adult vs. young-adult)
Recognition of the noun young adult and its punctuation as an adjectival modifier are inconsistent. Some dictionaries recognize young adult as a noun , while others do not . When recognized (as by Random House), young adult is treated as an open compound noun, with no hyphen.When the noun young adult is placed before another noun (such as fiction, novel, author), however, the use of a hyphen varies widely. For example, an Internet search (of the Web or of news articles) using the key words young adult fiction shows widespread inconsistency in hyphenation. Although the Chicago Manual of Style falls short of declaring the omission of the hyphen as grammatically incorrect, it clearly addresses the issue in "Compounds and Hyphenation," sections 7.82-7.86: "When such compounds precede a noun, hyphenation usually makes for easier reading. With the exception of proper nouns (such as United States) and compounds formed by an adverb ending in ly plus an adjective, it is never incorrect to hyphenate adjectival compounds before a noun." The Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference is a little more forceful on the subject: "The most complicated business conducted by hyphens is uniting words into adjectival compounds that precede nouns. Many writers neglect to hyphenate such compounds, and the result is ramshackle sentences that often frustrate the reader." The Wikipedia Manual of Style also addresses the issue of hyphens for compound adjectives.
Although none of the sources cited above list young adult as an example, each clearly expresses a preference for hyphenating compound modifiers. With that in mind, young adult is a noun (without a hyphen) as defined by Random House. But when the noun young adult precedes another noun, it becomes a compound modifier and warrants a hyphen, as in young-adult fiction, young-adult author, young-adult novel, and so on. Because the sources do not declare the absence of a hyphen as grammatically incorrect, widespread inconsistencies in the punctuation of young adult are likely to continue, either out of ignorance or as conscious choice of style.
Literature
Whether any particular work of fiction qualifies as literature can be disputed. In recent years, however, YA fiction has been increasingly treated as an object of serious study by children's literature critics. A growing number of young-adult-fiction awards recognize outstanding works of fiction for adolescents.
Trends
The category of YA fiction continues to expand into new genres: graphic novels, light novels, manga, fantasy, mystery fiction, romance novels, even subcategories such as cyberpunk, splatterpunk, techno-thrillers, and contemporary Christian fiction. New formats such as ebooks make it easier for teens to access these online.
Boundaries between children's, YA, and adult fiction
The distinctions between children's literature, YA literature, and adult literature have historically been flexible and loosely defined. This line is often policed by adults who feel strongly about the border. At the lower end of the YA age spectrum, fiction targeted to readers age 10 to 12 is referred to as middle-grade fiction. Some novels originally marketed to adults have been identified as being of interest and value to adolescents and, in the case of several books such as the Harry Potter novels, vice versa.
Awards
Various young-adult-fiction awards are presented annually, and mark outstanding adolescent literature writing.The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association.
The William C. Morris YA Debut Award first awarded in 2009, honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature. The first William C. Morris award was given to Elizabeth C. Bunce for A Curse Dark as Gold.
The Margaret A. Edwards Award was established in 1988, honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. The annual award is administered by YALSA and sponsored by School Library Journal magazine. It recognizes an author's work in helping adolescents become aware of themselves and addressing questions about their role and importance in relationships, society, and in the world.
The Alex Awards are given annually to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing. The Alex Awards were first given annually beginning in 1998 and became an official ALA award in 2002.
Odyssey Award honors the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States. Co-administered with Association for Library Service to Children.
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults (ages 12–18) during a November 1 – October 31 publishing year.
See also
Notes
Blasingame, James. Books That Don't Bore 'Em: Young Adult Books That Speak to This Generation. New York: Scholastic, 2007. Print.Bucher, K., Manning, M. Lee. "Young Adult Literature and the School Curriculum" education.com Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall. 2006.Web. 12 May 2009.
Bucher, Katherine Toth, and M. Lee. Manning. Young Adult Literature: Exploration, Evaluation, and Appreciation. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2006. Print.
Cart, Michael. From Romance to Realism: 50 Years of Growth and Change in Young Adult Literature. New York: Harper Collins, 1996. Print.
Cole, Pam B. Young Adult Literature: In the 21st Century. New York: McGraw Hill, 2009. Print.
Gill, Sam D. "Young Adult Literature for Young Adult Males". The Alan Review Winter 1999. Web. 12 May 2009.
Herz, Sarah K., and Donald R. Gallo. From Hinton to Hamlet: Building Bridges between Young Adult Literature and the Classics. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996. Print.
Herz, Sarah K., and Donald R. Gallo. From Hinton to Hamlet: Building Bridges between Young Adult Literature and the Classics. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005. Print.
Lesesne, Teri S. Making the Match: The Right Book for the Right Reader at the Right Time, Grades 4-12. Maine: Stenhouse Publishers, 2003. Print.
Lubar, David. "The History of Young Adult Novels". The Alan Review Spring 2003. Web. 12 May 2009.
Stephens, Jonathan. "Young Adult: A Book by Any Other Name...:Defining the Genre". The Alan Review Fall 2007. Web. 12 May 2009.
Thomlinson, Carl M., Lynch-Brown, Carol. Essentials of Young Adult Literature. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc. 2007. Print.
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