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It's hard for me to answer this question with examples from adult literature because I don't think about adult literature in terms of heroes and villains.
While the biggest BookTubers like Ms. Riccio and Mr. George tend to focus on young adult literature, there is also a smaller subsection of creators whose content centers on adult literature, both classic and contemporary.
Roundup Certain grown-ups revel in dumb generalizations about young adult literature.
How did you get started with writing this type of adult literature?
As a book publishing phenomenon, young adult literature entered the decade like a lion.
It's one reason more adults should be reading good young adult literature like this novel.
The only overarching thing that characterizes young adult literature is the age of the protagonist.
"What she has done is prefigured the young-adult literature market," photographer Connie Samaras said.
Marley chose a lack of representation of black girls in children's and young adult literature.
Even if you're not that into young adult literature (YA), you probably already know those three names.
Twenty years ago, young adult literature occupied a few shelves in the children's section of a bookstore.
But Macron would not be the only current French politician to try his hand at adult literature.
They have hired 2000 more staff members, including 214 librarians for children and young adult literature alone.
In the close-knit world of young adult literature, Mr. Vizzini's death came as a crushing loss.
Books geared specifically toward teenagers were not yet in vogue, existing as a nebulous state between children's and adult literature.
"Young-adult literature has been trying to move into a space where our shelves reflect our world," Ms. Ahmed said.
Although the Soviet teachings could be heavy, there was a freedom for artistic experimentation that wasn't available in "adult" literature.
I spoke to Choi about technology, the state of young adult literature – and the adorable reason why Sam is named Sam.
It seems that the only thing worse than sex or the "f word" in young adult literature is being a lesbian.
Ms. Rosenthal was an established humorist and writer before Mr. Green became a star in the world of young-adult literature.
Viewers who have read contemporary young-adult literature will be able to handle it, though their parents may feel uncomfortable at times.
I think I knew a little bit — in high school I read some YA and then I jumped really quickly into adult literature.
In young adult literature in particular, inventive, international stories told in newly empowered women's voices are claiming their rightful place at the table.
The week began with the world of children's and young adult literature celebrating its most prestigious awards, the industry's version of the Oscars.
"What she has done is prefigured the young-adult literature market," said Samaras, who is working on a project for the exhibition in October.
Teenagers won't be neglected, either: Sunday, the main festival day, will include a host of programs on young-adult literature at the nearby St. Ann's School Rotunda.
Woodson's intuition for what motivates people — and her eye for capturing stories that are harder to find on the page — emerges even more in her adult literature.
At a time when young adult literature is actively picking away at the stigma of mental illness, Whaley carves off a healthy chunk with style, sensitivity and humor.
Children's Books A persistent question for those of us who write young adult literature is, What are we not allowed to do or say when writing for teenagers?
While critical reaction has been favorable — "Hey, Kiddo" is on the National Book Awards Longlist for young adult literature — being embraced by the general public is not guaranteed.
It's practically the foundation of young adult literature, especially of the dystopian sort — the Divergent series is a prime example — as well as the entire X-Men franchise.
Young adult literature, Hopper observes, is especially suited to assuage the anguish of an inexorably vigorous illness, one that threatens to whittle away at a body until it yields.
There are countries called children's literature and young adult literature and adult fiction, but no border guards, or in my case, parents to police the borders and protect me.
In the wake of the international success of Battle Royale, the young-adult literature market exploded with similar sagas about teens fighting each other to the death, by dictatorial edict.
Over the course of the month, we'll be celebrating and exploring the culture of young adult literature through feature stories, exclusive interviews with authors, book roundups — and an interactive reading challenge.
Children's books depicting parental incarceration may still be catching up with an issue most Americans are reluctant to talk about, but it still seems to be moving faster than adult literature.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - London-based writer Meg Rosoff received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), a top prize for children and young adult literature, at a ceremony in Stockholm on Monday night.
When "Little Man, Little Man" was first published in 1976, critics didn't know what to make of an experimental, enigmatic picture book that straddled the line between children's and adult literature.
There was less official "Young Adult Literature" back then, and free from the surveillance of people who might have guided me toward appropriate material, I just read what looked good to me.
Young adult literature has been somewhat of a pioneer in the realm of representing mental illness because in so many ways, the YA genre was built around the idea of the "issue" book.
This sketch sees John Cena and Aidy Bryant live out some erotic fantasies behind the bookshelf at an "adult literature" shop, while Kenan Thompson's unflappable store clerk deflects their eccentricities as customers approach.
His 2017 book "Long Way Down" was named a Newbery Honor Book by the American Library Association, as well as a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, the organization's award for young adult literature.
We've seen the adult romance genre get pegged with this misconception, but the connection is fair with After, and unfortunately, it's become the poster book for explicit sex in young adult and new adult literature.
STOCKHOLM - London-based writer Meg Rosoff  was stunned and had to sit down after learning that she had won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), the world's largest children and young adult literature prize on Tuesday.
Nina LaCour won the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature for her novel "We Are Okay," about a lonely college student who struggles to come to terms with a past family tragedy.
Three of Ms. Rubin's book clubs are for "kid lit," and people can react to Young Adult literature in particular like hormonal 15-year-olds: "The biggest division in Y.A. involves the 'Twilight' series," she said.
It is Woodson's third-ever novel for adults and the second within the last three years — a book that highlights her potential to have as big an impact on adult literature as she's had on younger readers.
The controversy surrounding "Blood Heir," and Ms. Zhao's swift and dramatic decision to withdraw the work just months before publication, has further fueled a skirmish in the world of young adult literature over racial representation, diversity and cultural appropriation.
"   Gorsuch tried to defuse the tension with a reference to young adult literature, citing the "Harry Potter"-like atmosphere of his mentor's office and saying Finnis "did not let an argument that I was working on go unchallenged from any direction.
"If Twitter controls publishing, we'll soon enter a dreary monoculture that admits no book unless it has been prejudged and meets the standards of the censors," Jennifer Senior wrote in a New York Times opinion piece about young-adult literature.
It's a recurring theme in young adult literature, but it feels like it translates even more forcefully to the screen, where we can watch and hear Starr scream the truth about her murdered friend, but also laugh with her family.
It's been a huge year for young adult literature, with films like Netflix's adaptation of Jenny Han's To All The Boys I'ved Loved Before and the Amandla Stenberg-starring big screen version of Angie Thomas' novel The Hate U Give garnering critical acclaim.
"As the summer reading lists are compiled, a committee at each high school considers nationally known book review sources and award-winning young adult literature titles which will be of high interest to the intended audience of students," Pruitt said in an email.
The controversy arose at an awkward moment for the industry, which had gathered Monday at the American Library Association's midwinter meeting in Denver to announce its most coveted awards for children and young adult literature, including the John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott Medals.
Young Adult literature is thriving, with authors crafting thoughtful coming-of-age stories centered around gun violence (Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds), police brutality (The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas), mental health (Turtles All the Way Down by John Green), and more.
In children's and young-adult literature, stories that grapple with the often unsettling emotions of children are hardly rare, but wide-release films made for kids still tend to stick to comedy, or offer fantasies of pint-size, one-dimensional heroes who overcome mean enemies and fulfill their triumphant destinies.
She has broadened the scope of children's and young-adult literature in particular, and not just in terms of its demographics; her work has been challenged in some schools and libraries because of its frank portrayals of sexuality and interracial relationships, something she first learned during a phone conversation with the Y.A. giant Judy Blume.
The novel won the 1995 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.
Strasser's novel won the 1981 Massachusetts Book Award for Children's/Young Adult Literature.
Isabel Quintero is an American writer of young adult literature, poetry and fiction.
Gay teen fiction is a subgenre that overlaps with LGBT literature and young adult literature. This article covers books about gay and bisexual teenage characters who are male. The genre of young adult literature is usually considered to begin with Maureen Daly's Seventeenth Summer, which was published in 1942. Seventeenth Summer is often credited with starting young adult literature because it was one of the first adolescent problem novels.
Jonathan Auxier (born August 10, 1981) is a Canadian-born writer of young adult literature.
The novel received the 2010 Michael L. Printz Honor Award for excellence in young adult literature.
24 Young adult fiction was developed to soften the transition between children's novels and adult literature.
New York: Garland Publishing. She is the namesake of the Margaret Edwards Award for young adult literature.
Otroci sveta (Children of the World) is a collaboration with well-known Slovene young adult literature author Janja VIdmar.
The Heavenly Fox (electronic edition), 2013, copyright page. It was nominated for the 2012 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.
Lael Jensen LittkeMiddle name from (born 1929) is an American author of young adult literature and around 75 short stories.
The Hollowing was nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in the category of Best Novel in 1995.
The following year, she had a book nominated for a Prize in the category for children's and young adult literature.
Crowe has written many reviews of young adult literature. He has been a contributor or editor of a wide variety of journals including Medical English and English Journal. He has also written articles on general trends in young adult literature including the chapter “Mormon Values in Young Adult Literature,” in The Last Taboo: Spirituality in Young Adult Literature (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2015). Books he has written include From the Outside Looking In: Short Stories for LDS Teenagers and Fatherhood, Football and Turning Forty: Confessions of a Middle-Aged Mormon Male, Presenting Mildred D. Taylor, Teaching the Selected Works of Mildred D. Taylor, Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case, and Up Close: Thurgood Marshall.
Teresa Ekwutosi Agbomma Meniru (April 7, 1931 - August 24, 1994) was a Nigerian writer of young adult literature and children's stories.
Tamsin is a 1999 fantasy novel by American writer Peter S. Beagle. It won a Mythopoeic Award in 2000 for adult literature.
Wake debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list for children's chapter books, and garnered several awards for young adult literature.
Sommerfelt was born in Trondheim, Norway. He married the young adult literature writer Aimée Sommerfelt. He died in Nes, Norway, aged 72.
Laura Gallego García (born in Quart de Poblet, Valencia (Spain) on October 11, 1977), is a Spanish author of young adult literature.
Administered by the SOIS, the Butler Children's Literature Center is one of the nation's premier centers for the study of children's and young-adult literature in the services of literacy, learning and a lifelong love of reading. As an examination center for children's and young-adult literature, it serves as a best-practices professional collection to support integration of children's and young-adult literature in classrooms, libraries, childcare centers, and homes. In the fall of 2014, the university introduced a new bachelor of science in nursing degree program. A new clinical simulation laboratory was designed and built specifically for the program.
The novel won the 2017 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, and placed twelfth in the 2017 Locus Poll Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
Collins; Latham (1993), 146. After a hiatus, R. L. Stine revived the book series in October 2014. Stine had attempted to write a new Fear Street novel for years, but publishers were not interested. Some publishers thought that young adult literature has changed since Fear Street was first published, since the new world of young adult literature is dominated by dystopian worlds and paranormal elements.
The novel was nominated for the 1992 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, and placed twelfth in the 1992 Locus Poll Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
The novel was nominated for the 1994 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, and placed fifteenth in the 1994 Locus Poll Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
Scholastic Publishers: Author biography It was a 2007 Nevada Library nominee for Young Adult literature and American Library Association 2005 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers.
Richard Wayne Peck (April 5, 1934 – May 23, 2018) was an American novelist known for his prolific contributions to modern young adult literature. He was awarded the Newbery Medal in 2001 for his novel A Year Down Yonder (the sequel to A Long Way From Chicago). For his cumulative contribution to young-adult literature, he received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1990.
Nick Burd attended the University of Iowa and received his MFA from The New School. In 2009, Burd published his first novel, The Vast Fields of Ordinary, which received many positive reviews. The Vast Fields of Ordinary won the American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category. The novel was also a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature.
Dale Peck (born 1967) is an American novelist, literary critic, and columnist. His 2009 novel, Sprout, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature,Valenzuela, Tony (28 May 2010) "Winners of 22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards", Lambda Literary Foundation (Accessed 24 May 2020) and was a finalist for the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category."Stonewall Book Awards for 2010 Announced." Press release.
The book won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature,Valenzuela, Tony. "Winners of 22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards." Lambda Literary Foundation. May 28, 2010.
Accessed 2010-05-28. and was a finalist for the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category."Stonewall Book Awards for 2010 Announced." Press release.
Sunshine is a fantasy novel featuring vampires written by Robin McKinley and published by Berkley Publishing Group in 2003. Sunshine won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in 2004.
Mayfield won the Heartland Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, in 2005 for Drowning Anna. Her novel Blue was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and sold over 15,000 copies.
Isobelle Jane Carmody (born 16 June 1958) is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's literature, and young adult literature. She is recipient of the Aurealis Award for best children's fiction.
Malinda Lo is an American writer of young adult novels including Ash, Huntress, Adaptation, Inheritance, and A Line in the Dark. She also does research on diversity in young adult literature and publishing.
"Michael L. Printz Winners and Honor Books". Young Adult Library Services Association. ALA. Retrieved 2012-09-05. The Printz Award, inaugurated for 1999 publications, is the premier ALA award for young adult literature.
Francesca Lia Block (born December 3, 1962) is an American writer of adult and young-adult literature. She is known for the Weetzie Bat series, which she began while a student at Berkeley.
Lev Abramovich Kassil () (27 June 1905, Pokrovskaya21 June 1970, Moscow) was a Soviet writer of juvenile and young adult literature, depicting Soviet life, teenagers and their world, school, sports, cultural life, and war.
Jaclyn Moriarty (born 1968 in Perth) is an Australian novelist, most known for her young adult literature. She is a recipient of the Davitt Award and the Aurealis Award for best children's fiction.
Beside the British Carnegie, A Northern Light won the 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature."2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners" . Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2008-02-02.
Mats Berggren in 2016. Mats Berggren (born 1957, in Södertälje) is a Swedish writer. He specializes in children's and young adult literature. He has been a jury member of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
Song for the Basilisk is a 1998 fantasy novel by American writer Patricia A. McKillip. It was a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature finalist in 1999.Mythopoeic Awards – Fantasy. . Retrieved 2010-02-24.
In addition to the complete Fourth Edition, volumes are available on African American Literature, American Fiction Series, British & Commonwealth Fiction, Christian Literature, Drama, Juvenile & Young Adult Literature, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Stories, and Women's Literature.
The novel was nominated for the 2011 Endeavour Award for Distinguished Novel or Collection and the 2011 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, and placed sixth in the 2011 Locus Poll Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
Her books have been used as the basis for plays, ballets. The National Symphony Orchestra commissioned an orchestral piece based on one of her books, Los hijos de la Guacamaya. Her numerous awards (e.g. 2013 Woman of the Year for Literature; 2014 Manuela Saenz Libertadora del Libertador Gold Medal; 2010 Silver Rose Award for the Woman of the Year; 2007 Essential Women in Ecuador) have enormously raised the awareness in Ecuador of the beneficial role of literature for the development of children and young adults. Dr. Jaime García Padrino, professor of Children's and Young Adult Literature at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, has summarized Edna's contribution to children and young adult literature: “… Iturralde’s contribution to Children’s Literature and Young Adult Literature is today one of the most outstanding in Ecuador and, by extension, in Latin America.
Varian Johnson (born in 1977) is an American writer, who writes contemporary young adult literature. He is the author of multiple novels including My Life as a Rhombus as well as a member of The Brown Bookshelf.
James Arthur Kjelgaard (December 6, 1910 – July 12, 1959), as reproduced on Kjelgaard tribute site. Note that some sources give December 10 as birth date, e.g. this biographical sketch . was an American author of young adult literature.
Crowe edited with Jesse S. Crisler the 2007 BYU Press publication How I Came to Write: LDS Authors for Young Adults. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Teaching for Social Justice Using Young Adult Literature: Sports and the Quest for Civil Rights for the Rowman and Littlefield Series Teaching for Social Justice Using Young Adult Literature. His debut novel, Mississippi Trial, 1955 (2002) on the Emmett Till case received mixed reviews. It also won several awards including the International Reading Association's Young Adult Novel Award.
The Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award, presented by The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English (ALAN), is an annual award in the United States for a book that exemplifies literary excellence, widespread appeal, and a positive approach to life in young adult literature. It is named for Amelia Elizabeth Walden who died in Westport, Connecticut in 2002 and was a pioneer in the field of Young Adult Literature. The national award is presented annually to the author of a title selected by ALAN's Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Committee.
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books or Children is a recipient of a 2006 American Book Award. Another text is Paulette F. Molin's American Indian Themes in Young Adult Literature published in 2005 by Scarecrow Press.
He won the 2011 Oregon Book Award for Young Adult Literature for his novel, The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys. He is also the author of the highly acclaimed Garrison Gage mystery series, among other books.
Some critics claim that "the modern period of young adult literature is often said to have begun with Seventeenth Summer".Vogel, Nancy. "The Semi centennial of Seventeenth Summer: Some Questions and Answers." The ALAN Review 21 (Spring 1994): 41.
The Arbuthnot Award, given out by the International Reading Association, is a yearly $800 awarded to excellence in teaching having to do with children or young adult literature at the college level.International Reading Association. (2011) “Arbuthnot Award.” (cited January 29, 2011).
Monique Gray Smith is a Canadian writer of children's and young adult literature."Monique Gray Smith's new book for young readers charts a path to reconciliation". The Next Chapter, August 17, 2018."Victoria writer Monique Gray Smith earns B.C. Book Prize".
Quill & Quire, September 2016. The novel won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's and Young Adult Literature at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards in 2017."M-E Girard among Canadian winners at Lambda Literary Awards". CBC Books, June 13, 2017.
It has also been referred to in a number of books on children and young adult literature. Because of its gay-positive theme, it was challenged at the Montgomery County Memorial Library System in 2004 by the Library Patrons of Texas.
Enriqueta Peptitpas Cotton (born 1900; year of death unknown), better known as Henriette Morvan or Damita Duende, was a Chilean journalist, writer, and editor. Associated with the genres of children's and young adult literature, she wrote and compiled related stories.
Retrieved 2008-02-02. and it was a runner up for best book in that category, the Michael L. Printz Award."The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2004 Award Winner" , YALSA, ALA. Retrieved 2008-02-02.
It won the 2001 Western Australian Premier's award for Young Adult Literature and was a short-list nominee for the 2000 Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel. He then released two more books in 2001 and in 2003. In 2004 Eaton released Fireshadow, which won the Western Australian Premier's award for Young Adult Literature and was named as an honour book in the CBCA Book of the Year Awards. In 2005 he started his Darklands Trilogy with the first book, Nightpeople, being a short-list nominee for the 2005 Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel and best young-adult novel.
The distinctions among children's literature, young adult literature, and adult literature have historically been flexible and loosely defined. This line is often policed by adults who feel strongly about the border.Richard Flynn, Boundary Issues, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Volume 33, Number 2, Summer 2008 At the lower end of the age spectrum, fiction targeted to readers age 8-12 is referred to as middle-grade fiction. Some novels originally marketed to adults are of interest and value to adolescents, and vice versa, as in the case of books such as the Harry Potter series of novels.
In 1992 Potok completed another novel, I am the Clay, about the courageous struggle of a war-ravaged family. His 1993 young adult literature The Tree of Here was followed by The Sky of Now (1995) and Zebra and Other Stories (1998).
The Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. The winner of this category prize vies with four other category winners (fiction; non-fiction; poetry; young adult literature) for overall Victorian Prize for Literature.
The Globe and Mail, October 4, 2016. In November 2017, it won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature."Katherena Vermette wins CODE’s 2017 Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Young Adult Literature". Quill & Quire, November 24, 2017.
Harper Collins Canada page, 40 Things I Want To Tell You . Retrieved 31 July 2013. It won a Saskatchewan Book Award for Young Adult Literature in 2013Writers Honoured at Saskatchewan Book Awards, CBC News: Regina, Saskatchewan, 28 April 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
The novel was followed by Don't Stay Up Late, which was published in April 2015. Stine says the new books will be longer, more adult and more violent, to reflect how young adult literature has changed since Fear Street was first published.
The Alex Awards, presented by YALSA annually to 10 outstanding works of young adult literature and named after Edwards, are another project funded by the trust.Lapides, L. F. (2002) Margaret Alexander Edwards, 1902-1988. Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, 15 (summer), 45.
The Bell at Sealey Head is a 2008 fantasy novel by American writer Patricia A. McKillip. It was nominated for the 2009 Locus AwardWorlds Without End - 2009 Award Winners & Nominees. . Retrieved 2009-10-22. as well as the 2009 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.
Awards: NYPL Book for Reading and Sharing, 2008 National Jewish Book Awards (Children's and Young Adult Literature Finalist), 2009 Bank Street College, Best Children's Books of the Year List, 100th Anniversary Edition, and Sydney Taylor Honor Award Recommendations: Booklist, Horn Book, and Kirkus Reviews.
Its themes include friendship, deception, and love. Reviews of Enna Burning mostly complimented the book's prose and character development. It received the 2004 AML Award for Young Adult Literature and has been published in eight languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Korean, and Vietnamese.
Title page from Sarah Trimmer's The Guardian of Education, vol. I, 1802 The history of young adult literature is tied to the history of how childhood and young adulthood has been perceived. One early writer to recognize young adults as a distinct group was Sarah Trimmer, who, in 1802, described "young adulthood" as lasting from ages 14 to 21. In her 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 still remains in use.
Natalia Osińska is a Polish writer of young adult literature. Her novels describe the lives of Polish LGBTQ youth.Dlaczego polskie nastolatki zaczytują się w historiach o gejowskich związkach? – Vice Osińska graduated from the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
Joan Baehler Bauer (born July 12, 1951) is an American writer of young adult literature currently residing in Brooklyn. Bauer was born in River Forest, Illinois. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York with her husband Evan Bauer. They are the parents of one daughter, Jean.
The Booktrust Teenage Prize was an annual award given to young adult literature published in the UK. The prize was administered by Book Trust, an independent charity which promotes books and reading. The Booktrust Teenage Prize was last awarded in 2010 and is no longer running.
Laurie Halse Anderson is an American writer, known for children's and young adult novels. She received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2010 for her contribution to young adult literature. She was first recognized for her novel Speak, published in 1999.
This award promotes Asian/Pacific American culture in books. The picture book winner was Drawn Together by Minh Lê and illustrated by Dan Santat, the children's literature winner was Front Desk by Kelly Yang, and the Young Adult literature winner was Darius the Great is Not Okay.
Contributions to blogs. Web of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid He is the author of over fifty booksManuel Alfonseca's books. Web of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in the fields of computer science and popular science, as well as historic novels, science fiction, and young adult literature.
2 Dec. 2014. Michael Cart, the author of Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism, asserts that it is “a more mature, sophisticated, and artful historical fiction, one that is honest about the realities of history for older YAs”.Cart, Michael. “Nightmare”. Booklist 45 15 Apr.
I'll Give You the Sun is a young adult novel by author Jandy Nelson. Published in September 2014, it is Nelson's second novel. Nelson won several awards for this novel, including the 2015 Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. In June 2015, Warner Bros.
Sara Farizan is an Iranian American writer of young adult literature."This Author’s Juicy YA Novels Would Be Banned in Her Parents’ Homeland". Mother Jones, September/October 2014. Her debut novel, If You Could Be Mine, won the Ferro-Grumley Award,"LGBTQ Publishing: PW Talks with Sara Farizan".
Meaker has won multiple awards including the American Library Association's lifetime award for young-adult literature, the ALA Margaret A. Edwards Award. She was described by The New York Times Book Review as "one of the grand masters of young adult fiction.""Marijane (Agnes) Meaker (1927–) ". Brief Biographies (biography.jrank.org).
So that's how I know." Rowling's movement from children's literature to adult literature arose from being "ready to change genre". Referring to the Harry Potter series Rowling commented, "The thing about fantasy—there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. You don't have sex near unicorns.
One of the foundational elements of young adult literature is its representation of diverse ideas. Looking at The New York Times bestseller list for young adults in the late 2010s demonstrates the selling power of diverse narratives. This dedication to and emphasis on diversity is a fairly recent concept.
John Donovan (1928 - April 29, 1992) was an American writer of young adult literature. He is best known for his 1969 novel I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip, the first known young adult novel to directly address the subject of homosexuality.Rumaan Alam, Worth the Trip.
Eliza Timberlake Dresang (October 21, 1941 - April 21, 2014) was an American professor of Library Science who studied fundamental changes in children's literature because of digital format.Jacqueline N. Glasgow, "Radical change in young adult literature informs the multigenre paper", The English Journal, vol. 92, no. 2, Multigenre Teaching (Nov.
The Santiago Municipal Literature Award () is one of the most important literary prizes of Chile. Created on 5 February 1934 by the municipality of Santiago, the first awards were given in the genres of novel, poetry, and theater (later to be called dramaturgy); in 1941 essay was added, and in 1954, short story. 2013 saw the addition of children's and young adult literature, referential ("memoirs, chronicles, diaries, letters, biographies, and also compilations and anthologies"), journalistic research, and editing. The following year it was decided to extend the recognition of the works directed to minors, and to award children's and young adult literature separately, thus making a total of ten categories in competition.
Kitty Crowther (born 4 April 1970, in Brussels) is a Belgian illustrator and writer of children's books. For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, the biggest prize in children's literature.
Researchers have turned their attention to its influence on urban literacy, particularly among adolescent girls. Despite misgivings about editing quality issues, secondary school teachers in suburban settings have included urban literature in curricula, referring to it as "multicultural young adult literature" to expose students to "authentic" voices representing urban life.
Greg Herren is an American writer and editor, who publishes work in a variety of genres, including mystery novels, young adult literature and erotica."Greg Herren: The Art of Doing It All". Lambda Literary Foundation, June 20, 2011. He publishes work both as Greg Herren and under the pseudonym Todd Gregory.
Unwind received positive reviews upon release, with praise focusing on the novel's immersive environment and sociological implications. It also received many awards from young adult literature authorities. A film adaptation of Unwind is currently in production by independent producers. A second novel titled UnWholly was released in August 2012,Shusterman, Neal.
139 Princeton University, 2001, cited in Lerer, Seth, Children's Literature, p. 22, University of Chicago, 2008. Modern children's books are illustrated in a way that is rarely seen in adult literature, except in graphic novels. Generally, artwork plays a greater role in books intended for younger readers (especially pre-literate children).
Furthermore, a mahjong museum was founded. Currently, in addition to the older magazines, a pachinko magazine, a gravure magazine, short stories as well as adult literature novels are published. On the Internet, it has distribution agreements with Livedoor. Takeshobo yonkoma comics are distributed on the comic distribution website Manga Life Win.
Elena's Serenade book front cover Elena's Serenade is a children's picture book written by Campbell Geeslin and illustrated by Ana Juan.Elena's Serenade, Publishers Weekly First published in 2004, it received the Parents' Choice Award the same year and was commended for the Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature.
Lightning Lad was killed battling Zaryan the Conqueror in Adventure Comics #304 (January 1963), but was revived in issue #312 (September 1963). This particular story line has been lauded as being among the best young adult literature of 1967, ranking among (un-illustrated) novels like Taran Wanderer and The Outsiders.
In 1990 Frazee illustrated her first published book, World-Famous Muriel and the Magic Mystery, written by Sue Alexander. After Muriel, Frazee illustrated That Kookoory! which was written by Margaret Walden Froehlich. She received good reviews of her work in the Horn Book Magazine, a journal for children's literature and young-adult literature.
In 2014, If You Could Be Mine received the Ferro-Grumley and Edmund White Award by the Publishing Triangle, marking the first time a novel won the first prize in two different categories in the same year. The book also won the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature in 2014.
Finalists and winners are selected on the basis of literary merit and kid appeal. Panelists are volunteers and must be active bloggers with extensive experience in children's or young adult literature, either as readers and enthusiasts or as authors, librarians, booksellers, teachers, or others with verifiable investment in the world of children's literature.
Other books, such as I miss you, I miss you! and Sekten are based on true stories that came to him directly or indirectly. Some of his books were originally published as adult literature, but later recategorised as books for youth. Pohl does not consider himself an author of primarily youth literature.
Erlend Loe (born 24th May 1969, Trondheim), is a Norwegian novelist, screenwriter and film critic. Loe writes both children's and adult literature. He has gained popularity in Scandinavia with his humorous and sometimes naïve novels, although his stories have become darker in tone, moving towards a more satirical criticism of modern Norwegian society.
Winter Rose is a 1996 fantasy novel by American writer Patricia A. McKillip. It was nominated for the 1996 Nebula Award and 1997 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel,World Without End: 1997 Award Winners & Nominees. . Retrieved 2010-02-24. and was a finalist for the 1997 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.
Deerskin is a dark fantasy novel by Robin McKinley, first published in 1993. It is based on an old French fairy tale by Charles Perrault called Peau d'âne (English translation: Donkeyskin). It was nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. The book contains numerous adult themes including incest, rape, and miscarriage.
The Lambda Literary Award, which is awarded in recognition of works that celebrate or explore LGBT themes, also recognizes children's/young adult literature. Other examples of recognition include the American Library Association's "Best Books for Young Adults" award, whose winners have included Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez and Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan.
Publishers Weekly, May 23, 2014. the Edmund White Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult Literature in 2014,"Lambda Awards honor best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books". Washington Post, June 2, 2014. and was named to the American Library Association Rainbow List as one of the year's best LGBT-themed books.
Her textbook, The High School Library: Its Function in Education was among the first professional materials created for librarians serving teens.Gaffney, Loretta M. Young Adult Literature, Libraries, and Conservative Activism. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. p51 She is credited with identifying the necessity of libraries in school, and creating strong interactions between librarians, students, and teachers.
BookTube is a book-specific subset of the YouTube community. The BookTube community has, to date, reached hundreds of thousands of viewers worldwide. While the majority of BookTubers focus on Young Adult literature, many address other genres. BookTube videos also generally follow a set of formats, often drawing upon the wider "bookish" culture and lexicon.
Quintana was also asked not to write poems and adult literature like André; instead Quintana would focus on other work, such as crime novels and children's literature. Quintana would later state that he does consider his work literature but that he ended up in children's literature as a result of this deal with his brother.
Helen Mary Hoover (April 5, 1935 – August 22, 2018) was an American children's writer. Most of her science fiction is for older children and often features friendships between those of different generations. Her 1996 novel The Winds of Mars tied for the Golden Duck Awards' Hal Clement division for young adult literature. Golden Duck Awards.
After her death in 1988, she was further honored, when the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) instituted an award in her name. The Margaret A. Edwards Award is presented annually to an author whose body of work has made a “significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.”YALSA. (2012, February 27). Edwards Award.
In adult literature, Donnelly has written two detective books for Piper Verlag: Kein einziges Wort and Wen der Tod entlässt. Both books star a German-Austrian female funeral parlor owner with a fondness for tango. For unknown reasons, critics have mainly ignored these books. ORF is planning a TV series based on the books.
Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood was reviewed as "experimental, enigmatic picture book that straddled the line between children’s and adult literature," and after its initial publication in 1976, it soon went out of print. In 2018, Duke University Press published a new edition, with an afterword by Aisha Karefa-Smart, Baldwin's niece.
Cormorant Books specializes in fiction by new and emerging Canadian writers, reissues of out-of-print classics of Canadian literature, and English translations of works by Quebec writers. In 2010, the company also launched Dancing Cat Books, a separate imprint for works of young adult literature."Cormorant launches YA imprint Dancing Cat Books". National Post, March 23, 2010.
Eldest won the 2006 Quill Award in Young Adult Literature. Eldest also was nominated for a British Book Award in the Children's Book of the Year section, the Disney Adventures Book Award, the Colorado Blue Spruce Award, Young Adult Book Award, and the Wyoming Soaring Eagle Book Award. Goodreads gave the book a score of 3.97 out of 5.
Javaka Steptoe (born April 19, 1971) is an American author and illustrator. He won the 2017 Caldecott Medal as well as the Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, and the Coretta Scott King Book Award from the American Library Association for his picture book Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
In 1921, the bookshop moved down the street into a larger area. The wrap-around balcony displayed children's books, while the ground floor contained adult literature. The new sign read 'The Bookshop for Boys and Girls—With Books on Many Subjects for Grown-Ups.' The hope was to bring children in by adding an adult presence.
The central portion of Ian Potter Queen's Hall opened in 1856 as the Library's original reading room. It closed to the public in 2003 due to disrepair, before being renovated and reopened in 2019 as a mixed-use study space containing Victorian young adult literature. After hours, the Ian Potter Queen's Hall functions as a special events venue.
The novel won the 2017 Silver Inky Award for young adult literature. Her third book, entitled I Was Born For This, was published in May 2018. It follows the story of Fereshteh "Angel" Rahimi and Jimmy Kaga-Ricci. The story is about a band called The Ark and their fandom, with a particular focus on fandom among teenagers.
Briar Rose is a young adult novel written by American author Jane Yolen, published in 1992. Incorporating elements of Sleeping Beauty, it was published as part of the Fairy Tale Series of novels compiled by Terri Windling. The novel won the annual Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in 1993. It was also nominated for the Nebula Award.
Gervay founded The Hughenden Boutique Hotel, a literary and arts hotel in Woollahra, Sydney. She went on to become a children's author, where she had had great success. She had two children James and Victoria (aka Tory) who are the inspiration for much of her writing. Gervay is a recognised Australian author of children's and young adult literature.
In their review of young adult literature that had received recognition by major literary publications between 1997 and 2001, Helbig and Perkins described Love Among the Walnuts as one of few recognized titles with humorous elements. They described the central theme of the novel as "the value to personal and group well-being of loving-kindness and caring".
Beginning 2009 the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award annually recognizes "a book that exemplifies literary excellence, widespread appeal, and a positive approach to life in young adult literature". The winner and honor books must be fiction published in the United States during one year prior to the call for nominations (perhaps previously published elsewhere)."Walden Award". ALAN (alan-yabeta.org).
Marisol Misenta (born 6 March 1972), known professionally under the mononym Isol, is an Argentine creator of children's picture books and a pop singer. For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2013, the biggest prize in children's literature.
In 2014 Wheatley was admitted by the University of Sydney to the degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa), in recognition of 'her exceptional creative achievements in the field of children's and adult literature, her work as an historian and her contribution to our understanding of Indigenous issues, cultural diversity, equity and social justice and the environment through story'.
Mythic fiction overlaps with urban fantasy and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but mythic fiction also includes contemporary works in non- urban settings. Mythic fiction refers to works of contemporary literature that often cross the divide between literary and fantasy fiction.Julie Bartel, The Continuum Encyclopedia of Young Adult Literature, "Mythic Fiction for Yong Adults," The Continuum International Publishing Group, Inc., 2005.
29, 2014. In the science fiction and fantasy field Foster worked as the managing editor for both Tangent Online and The Fix, two online short fiction review magazines. She was also a director for Dragon Con and edited their onsite newsletter, the Daily Dragon. Foster wrote "Writing for Young Readers," a monthly column for children's literature and young adult literature writers.
MaryJanice Davidson (born August 1969) is an American author who writes mostly paranormal romance, but also young adult literature and non-fiction. She is the creator of the popular Undead series. She is both a New York Times and USA Today bestseller. She won a 2004 Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award and was nominated for the same award in 2005.
The ' (German Youth Literature Award) is an annual award established in 1956 by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and YouthDeutscher Jugendliteraturepreis – About to recognise outstanding works of children's and young adult literature. It is Germany's only state-funded literary award.Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis – English Key Facts In the past, authors from many countries have been recognised, including non-German speakers.
Cosplay of Batgirl, who worked as a librarian in Gotham City when she was not fighting crime. Children's literature offers a generally positive portrayal of librarians as knowledgeable, helpful, amazing and friendly, becoming more positive over the course of the 20th century. Adult literature, however, portrays the profession more negatively. Between these, portrayals of librarians in young adult fiction are neutral to negative.
Adarna House published its first teen novellas, Jacobo’s Ghost, Mga Ako, and Sup?, under Pilar Perez Medallion for Young Adult Literature in 2001. In 2014, the company tried to revive the genre and published four (4) new books that year. This includes Supremo and Janus Silang at Ang Tiyanak ng Tabon, which are winners of the National Children's Books Awards.
Her first published book, Breaking the Silence (2009), was runner-up for the 2011 Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature in the English-language youth category. The Carving (2019) was the winner of the 2018 CODE Burt Prize for African Young Adult Literature in Kenya.Kari Mutu, Muthoni gives the disabled a voice, The East African, January 18, 2019. Accessed August 15, 2020.
Kliatt (stylized as KLIATT) was a bimonthly magazine that published reviews of young adult literature. It also published reviews of related media, such as educational software, that was designed for teachers and librarians interested in promoting reading among young adults. Each issue contained a featured article. The magazine was established in 1967 and published its final issue in November 2008.
TeachingBooks.net is an online database that can be used by teachers, students, librarians, and families to explore children's books and young adult literature and their authors. The database provides access to educational materials and programs (short movies, audio book readings, book discussion guides) that add a multimedia dimension to reading in the classroom, library, and home. The office of TeachingBooks.net is located in Madison, Wisconsin.
Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 1976, S. 197–198.). Shortly after publication of Stimmen der Gegenwart, she received the Georg Trakl Poetry Award (1954), soon to be followed by the Bertelsmann Poetry Prize (1956). She has received a number of other awards, including the Boga-Tinti Prize in 1972. In 2001, she was awarded the Austrian Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature (Österreichischer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis).
In 1960 he received a M.A. from Syracuse University. He has won numerous awards including several 'Best Books' designations from the American Library Association, The Knickerbocker Award from the New York Library Association (2001), and The ALAN Award for Contributions to Young Adult Literature (2003). Mazer co-authored three books with his late wife, Norma Fox Mazer. He is the father of author Anne Mazer.
Irena Jurgielewiczowa (née Drozdowicz; 13 January 1903 – 25 May 2003) was a Polish teacher and writer of children's literature and young adult literature. During World War II she was an underground teacher, member of Armia Krajowa, and participant of the Warsaw Uprising. After the war she was a lecturer at the University of Warsaw. She is best known for Ten obcy (That Stranger, 1961) and Inna.
Randy Powell is a writer who has penned several books in the young adult literature genre. He was born in Seattle, Washington in 1956. Powell had an interest in sports, and his Little League football team won the State Championship when he was 11. While at the University of Washington he became more focused on his writing, and penned several short stories and novels.
Retrieved 8 March 2018. Mochama is a three-time winner of the Burt AwardsTony Mochama Wins This Year’s African Literature Award FevaTV. Retrieved 15 March 2018. for African Young Adult Literature and he is also a recipient of Miles Morland Writing Scholarship.BY THE BOOK: ‘Literary Gangster’ Tony Mochama Daily Nation. Retrieved 8 March 2018.Tony Mochama 2013 Winner Miles Morland Foundation. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
Eto Mori (, born 1968) is a Japanese novelist focusing on children's and young adult literature. She has been described as "one of the most celebrated female writers of fiction in Japan today". Mori was born in Tokyo, and graduated from the Japan Juvenile Education College and Waseda University. She released her debut novel, Rizumu (Rhythm), in 1990, winning the Kodansha Award of Children's Literature for Newcomers.
They have been classified as postmodern and metafictional writing, with the plot evolution throughout the later novels being cited as an exploration of the psychological process of transition from the idyllic innocence of childhood to the moral complexity of maturity.Sadenwasser, Tim. The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature: Essays on Stories from Grimm to Gaiman. Retrieved 13 January 2017.Austin, Sara (May/June 2013).
The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are a set of American literary awards conferred by The Boston Globe and The Horn Book Magazine annually from 1967. One book is recognized in each of three categories: Fiction and Poetry, Nonfiction, and Picture Book. The official website calls the awards "among the most prestigious honors in children's and young adult literature". The Awards follow a school-year calendar.
In 2014, Lyndon Terracini announced that Opera Australia had co-commissioned Kate Miller-Heidke to write an opera based on Marsden's The Rabbits. The work, The Rabbits, premiered in 2015 in Perth, and was staged in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, winning several awards. In December 2018 Marsden was awarded the Dromkeen Medal, in recognition of his outstanding achievement in children’s and young adult literature.
It is a deserving, prize-winning book that now comfortably claims its place in Caribbean Young Adult literature."Debbie Jacob, "New Caribbean young adult novel rocks', Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, 17 January 2015. Hillhouse's children’s picture book Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure, illustrated by Danielle Boodoo-Fortune, was described by Kirkus Reviews as "an appealing book, all the more so for being based on real life".
When Everything Feels Like the Movies was selected for inclusion in the 2015 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by blogger and broadcaster Elaine Lui."CBC announces Canada Reads finalists". Toronto Star, January 20, 2015. It was also nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult Literature at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards,"The 26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists".
Lauderdale, David (24 October 2015). Meet Pat Conroy's 'first novelist', The Island Packet Even though Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones was marketed for young adults, Ann Head did not consider herself a young adult writer, and wrote the book for an adult audience. However, because the novel sold better to young adults, it is now considered part of the genre of Young Adult Literature.
Three Days to Never is a 2006 fantasy novel by Tim Powers. As with most of Powers' novels, it proposes a secret history in which real events have supernatural causes and prominent historical figures have been involved in supernatural or occult activities. The novel was shortlisted for the Locus Fantasy Award in 2007 as well as the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in the same year.
When she returned to Prague after the war, she married and converted to Catholicism. She had five children, and began writing. In 1964, some of Bořkovcová's works began to be published in literary journals, and she also published a fair amount of Young Adult literature. In 2008, Hana was interviewed by Post Bellum, an oral history organisation, as part of their Stories of the 20th Century project.
In 2018 her novel Passing Strange was nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. Klages is also known for doing stand-up comedy and other performances as an auctioneer annually at WisCon.WisCon Day 3 - Report 8, posted June 9th, 2008 by Julie Andrews. Accessed 1-27-2013 The WisCon Tiptree Auction is a fundraiser for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award; Klages also serves on the Board for the award.
Mythic fiction is literature that is rooted in, inspired by, or that in some way draws from the tropes, themes and symbolism of myth, legend, folklore, and fairy tales."A Mythic Fiction Reading List", The Journal of Mythic Arts The term is widely credited to Charles de Lint and Terri Windling.Julie Bartel, The Continuum Encyclopedia of Young Adult Literature, "Mythic Fiction for Yong Adults," The Continuum International Publishing Group, Inc., 2005.
Anne Duguël is the pen name of Anne Liger-Belair (August 1, 1945 – May 21, 2015), a Belgian francophone author. She writes both children's and adult literature, and has also been known to use the pen names Gudule, Anne Guduël, or Anne Carali. Duguël is known for her fantastique works, which were inspired by the dark side of fairytales and writers such as Jean Ray and Michel de Ghelderode.
Ryan was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she graduated from Pioneer High School in 1989. Her first novel, Empress of the World, was published in 2001 and is an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. A sequel, The Rules for Hearts, was published in 2007 and won the 2008 Oregon Book Award for Young Adult Literature. She also writes graphic novels and is a member of the Periscope Studio.
Rae Carson (born 1973) is an American fantasy writer. Her debut novel, The Girl of Fire and Thorns, was published in 2011. It was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Award and the Andre Norton Award, and it was the winner of the Ohioana Book Award for Young Adult Literature. It was also selected as 2012 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults by Young Adult Library Services Association.
In 2007, Scholastic released Peanut, followed by Hello My Name Is Bob in 2009. Alsenas is also the author of Gay America: Struggle For Equality, published by Amulet Books in 2008, the first gay history textbook written for teens. The book was an American Library Association's Stonewall Book Awards Children's and Young Adult Literature Award Honor Book in 2010. Alsenas lived in Stockholm, Sweden with his husband, Jan Wilhelmsson.
A Wizard of Earthsea won or contributed to several notable awards for Le Guin. It won the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in 1969, and was one of the last winners of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award ten years later. In 1984 it won the or the "Golden Sepulka" in Poland. In 2000 Le Guin was given the Margaret A. Edwards Award by the American Library Association for young adult literature.
In 2006 Edna founded and became the first president of the Ecuadorean affiliate of the Latin-American Academy of Children and Young Adults Literature. She was its president until 2012. The literary congresses she organized in Ecuador served to draw international attention and appreciation of Ecuadorean children and young adults literature. Edna has forcefully contributed to promoting reading and raising appreciation of children and young adult literature in Ecuador.
This is due to both the number of works she has published to date and the variety of themes about which she has written. Her historical and biographical books are notable for their solid documentation and rigorous accuracy. Above all, her writing is of high expressive quality. There is no doubt that Edna Iturralde has made a significant, diverse and substantial contribution to Spanish-American Children’s and Young Adult Literature.
After his book Cetățile albe appeared in 1946, Stelaru underwent the fate of several in his literary generation, including Geo Dumitrescu and Constant Tonegaru. He declined to publish adult literature under the nascent communist regime with its socialist realist ethos until 1963, when Oameni și flăcări appeared. In the interim, he wrote short dramatic poems which at the time were classified as children's literature (Gelu, 1956; Șarpele Marao. Vrăjitoarele, 1957).
Her work has been described as combining a knowledge of problems and mentality of her young readers with an interest in their ethical and intellectual transformation. Her readers have praised her for being "smart but not overbearing, patriotic but not nationalistic". She wrote a number of children's literature and young adult literature as well as some mémoires. In 1958 she received the Award of the President of the Council of Minister for her work.
It has been credited with beginning the modern period of young adult literature, although at the time of its publication, young adult fiction was not recognized as a category (and would not be so recognized until the 1960s), and Seventeenth Summer was originally published as a novel for adults. A survey taken in the 1940s ranked the book as the third most popular with teenage readers, behind Gone with the Wind and Jane Eyre.
Gary James Paulsen (born May 17, 1939) is an American writer of young adult literature, best known for coming of age stories about the wilderness. He is the author of more than 200 books and has written more than 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays, all primarily for teenagers. He won the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1997 for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.
On January 2, 2002, The Eye of the World was re- released as two separate books aimed at a young adult literature market, with larger text and a handful of illustrations. These were From the Two Rivers and To the Blight. The former included an additional prologue entitled "Ravens", focusing on Egwene al'Vere. The American Library Association put The Eye of the World on its 2003 list of Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults.
Waking The Moon is a 1994 dark fantasy novel by American writer Elizabeth Hand. It was the winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the 1996 Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature. It is set mainly in the "University of the Archangels and St. John The Divine", a fictional University inspired by The Catholic University of America, mentioned in a few of Hand's novels. About 100 pages were cut from the US edition.
Eyes of the Emperor is an American historical novel written by Graham Salisbury, and is currently published by Laurel-Leaf, which is an imprint of Random House Children's Books, in the United States in paperback. The first edition was published in 2005. The first edition was published by Wendy Lamb Books in hardcover format in the same year. In 2006, Eyes of the Emperor won the Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature.
Though it lacks an exact origin, the BookTube community began around 2010 and has grown exponentially in recent years. Today, many channels have thousands (and sometimes hundreds of thousands) of subscribers. BookTube channels exist globally in English, Italian, French, and Spanish, among other languages. BookTubers often create videos reviewing and discussing Young Adult Literature, but other genres, such as classics, science fiction, fantasy, literary fiction, children's literature, comics, romance, and non-fiction, are also represented.
Most of Ribičič's work, written in the fin-de-siècle estheticism, is children literature. His book Nicholas's Night (Slovene: ), illustrated by Milko Bambič, is the first Slovene-language youth book printed in colour lithography. An example of adult literature is the book Ruins (Slovene: ), published in 1917, which is a collection of short stories and humoresques dealing with World War I. In 1976, the publishing house Mladinska knjiga published his collected works in 7 volumes.
Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers; August 12, 1937 – July 1, 2014) was a writer of children's books best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, but was raised in Harlem, New York City. A tough childhood led him to writing and his school teachers would encourage him in this habit as a way to express himself. He wrote more than one hundred books including picture books and nonfiction.
While the library building itself houses classrooms for a satellite campus of Broward College, the library is also surrounded by schools. On one side is Manatee Bay Elementary School, while Falcon Cove Middle School and Cypress Bay High School sit across from the library on Vista Park Blvd. The library therefore has a high concentration of young adult literature and graphic novels for its frequent student visitors.Broward County Library System Official Website.
It was also honored with a spot on American Library Association's "100 Best Books for Teens". In 2008, the novel, along with Ender's Shadow, won the Margaret A. Edwards Award, which honors an author and specific works by that author for lifetime contribution to young adult literature. Ender's Game was included in Damien Broderick's book Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985–2010. It ranked number nine on Locus's top SF novels published before 1990.
Sharon G. Flake (born December 24, 1955) is an American writer of young adult literature. She has lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her daughter for many years. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in English. Her debut novel The Skin I'm In (1998) follows a young African- American girl who has issues with people teasing her about the color of her skin and the way she dresses.
In 2005, Hughes won the Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters for Children of the Promise. In 2007, Hughes received a Lifetime Achievement award at the inaugural Whitney Awards. In April 2013 he was awarded an Outstanding Achievement AML Award. He has also received AML Awards for Young Adult Literature (1994) for The Trophy, Novel (1998) for Far from Home, and Novel (2019) for Muddy: Where Faith and Polygamy Collide.
Four more poetry collections were also published in this period, all of which were positively received. She also revisited Earthsea, publishing Tehanu in 1992: coming eighteen years after The Farthest Shore, during which Le Guin's views had developed considerably, the book was grimmer in tone than the earlier works in the series, and challenged some ideas presented therein. It received critical praise, and led to the series being recognized among adult literature.
Logo of the Berlin International Literature Festival The Berlin International Literature Festival () or ilb is an annual event based in Berlin. Every September the festival presents contemporary poetry, prose, nonfiction, graphic novels and international children's and young adult literature. Renown authors present themselves next to new talents within the wide-ranging and political programme. The festival is an event of the "Internationale Peter- Weiss-Stiftung", the founder and festival direktor is Ulrich Schreiber.
Byrd "Birdie" Spilman Dewey (February 16, 1856 – April 1, 1942) was an American author, land investor, and co-founder of the Town of Boynton. She lived in Florida from 1881 until her death in 1942. Her best known work, Bruno, told the Dewey's story of early pioneering days in central Florida. The book remained in print for over twenty years, classified as juvenile literature – today it is classified as young adult literature. Mrs.
The Schneider Family Book Award is an award given by the American Library Association (ALA) recognizing authors and illustrators for the excellence of portrayal of the disability experience in literature for youth. There is a category for children's books, books appealing to middle grade readers and for young adult literature. The award has been given since 2004. The award was founded by Dr. Katherine Schneider, who was the first blind student to graduate from the Kalamazoo Public School system.
Amelia Holt Atwater-Rhodes (born April 16, 1984), known professionally as Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, is an American author of fantasy and young adult literature and a Language Arts/Literature teacher at Learning Prep School in West Newton, MA. She was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, and lived most of her life in Concord, Massachusetts. Her debut novel, In the Forests of the Night, was published in 1999,CNN.com, Top-selling teen author pens vampire tales. Published February 25, 2000.
Barbro Lindgren (born 18 March 1937) is a Swedish writer of children's books and books for adult readers. For her lasting contribution as a children's writer, Lindgren was a finalist for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2004. Ten years later she won the annual Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The biggest cash prize in children's and young-adult literature, it rewards a writer, illustrator, oral storyteller, or reading promoter for its entire body of work.
In addition to numerous positive reviews, it won the 2012 "Hal Clement" Golden Duck Award for Young Adult literature. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 210 libraries The sequel to A Long, Long, Sleep entitled No Life but This was published by Gollancz December 18, 2014. December 10, 2015, Anna Sheehan published her novel Spinning Thorns with Gollancz. It is also based on Sleeping Beauty, but set as a retelling and extension of the story.
Michael Cart, born on March 6, 1941 in Logansport, Indiana, United States is an author and expert in children's and young adult literature. He earned a degree in Library Science from Columbia University in 1964 and a degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. From 1964 to 1967 he served in the United States Army. Cart received the Grolier Award in 2000 and was the inaugural recipient of the YALSA/ Greenwood Publishing Group Service to Young Adults Award in 2008.
"Work Analysis." Masterplots II: Juvenile& Young Adult Literature Series Supplement 12.4 (1997): 1-2. Print. Annie John has been noted to contain feminist views.Smith, Pamela J. Olubunmi. "Work Analysis." Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series 12.4 (1995): 1-3. Print. Asked if the relationship between Annie and Gwen was meant to suggest “lesbian tendencies,” Kincaid replied: "No…I think I am always surprised that people interpret it so literally." The relationship between Gwen and Annie is really a practicing relationship.
The Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards were established in 1997 by the Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador (WANL), Canada. The awards are administered in partnership with the Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador. The categories for the awards alternate on a bi-yearly basis, with fiction and children's/young adult literature being featured one year, and poetry and non-fiction being featured the next. The winner of each category receives a $1,500 CAD prize.
Thirsty is the story of Chris, a teenage boy who is growing up to become a vampire while the people of his town (Boston) dedicate their time to fighting such dreaded creatures. His transformation is told through the similarities of growing up and going through adolescence. The plot is said to be startling, suspenseful and creepy, but also contains a captivating plot filled with humor. Thirsty was Anderson's first published novel and his debut in young adult literature.
Nancy Springer (born 5 July 1948) is an American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery, and science fiction. Her novel Larque on the Wing won the Tiptree Award in 1994. She also received the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her novels Toughing It in 1995 and Looking for Jamie Bridger in 1996. Additionally, she received the Carolyn W. Field Award from the Pennsylvania Library Association in 1999 for her novel I am Mordred.
Sonya Louise Hartnett (born 1968) is an Australian author of fiction for adults, young adults, and children. She has been called "the finest Australian writer of her generation". For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" Hartnett won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2008, the biggest prize in children's literature. She has published books as Sonya Hartnett, S. L. Hartnett, and Cameron S. Redfern.
The award was first established by the Association of Jewish Libraries in 1968. Originally, it was known as the Shirley Kravitz Children's Book Award and was later renamed in honor of Sydney Taylor in 1978. The award originally recognized books for older children, but in 1981, the award committee started to recognize books for younger readers and in 2007, began to recognize young adult literature. In 1988, Honor Award Winners were added and these books receive a silver seal.
The Cygnet and the Firebird is a fantasy novel by Patricia A. McKillip, a sequel to her earlier novel The Sorceress and the Cygnet. Despite a mixed reception, it was nominated for the 1994 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. It was first published in hardcover by Ace Books in September 1993, with a paperback following from the same publisher in September 1995. The first British edition was published in paperback by Pan Books in July 1994.
Jean E. Graham, Ph.D. is an American scholar, translator, and professor of English at The College of New Jersey, where she has taught since 1994. She regularly teaches courses in British literature (especially Milton and Shakespeare), young adult literature, and the Bible as literature.TCNJ English Department Faculty page for Dr. J. E. Graham Her research interests are varied: topics of recent publications and current projects include Katherine Philips, Thomas Traherne, and C. S. Lewis’s Narnian chronicles.
During her professional career, Morel received several honors, among them the Order of Merit of the World Council of Education in 1989 and two tributes to her career, at the 21st International Fair of Children's and Young Adult Books in 2007 and the Iberoamerican Congress of Language and Children's and Young Adult Literature (Congreso iberoamericano de lengua y literatura infantil y juvenil; CILELJ) in 2010. In the latter year she was selected to represent Chile at the Hans Christian Andersen Awards.
Christopher Everett Crowe (born in Danville, Illinois)Middle name from dissertation record at is an American professor of English and English education at Brigham Young University (BYU) specializing in young adult literature. In addition to his academic work, Crowe also writes books for the young-adult market, including Mississippi Trial, 1955.List of awards for Mississippi Trial, 1955 from Crowe's personal site. Crowe taught English and coached football and track at McClintock High School in Tempe, Arizona, for ten years.
Guus Kuijer (; born 1 August 1942) is a Dutch author. He wrote books for children and adults, and is best known for the Madelief series of children's books. For his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" he won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2012, the biggest prize in children's literature. As a children's writer he was one of five finalists for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2008.
The Curse of Chalion is a 2001 fantasy novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold. In 2002 it won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Locus Fantasy Awards in 2002. The series that it began, World of the Five Gods, won the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2018. Both The Curse of Chalion and its sequel Paladin of Souls (2003) are set in the landlocked medieval kingdom of Chalion.
This has led to criticism from individuals and groups that would like to see her books banned. This controversy has led to the American Library Association (ALA) naming Blume as one of the most frequently challenged authors of the 21st century. Despite her critics, Blume's books have sold over 82 million copies and have been translated into 32 languages. She has won a number of awards for her writing, including ALA's Margaret A. Edwards Award for her contributions to young adult literature.
Trueman grew up in the northern suburbs of Seattle, Washington with his parents. His father, Sydney M. Trueman, was a fighter pilot in World War II and won the Air Medal flying off the Aircraft Carrier USS Ticonderoga. He has one sister.8\. The Phillip Sadler Research Center for Children's and Young Adult Literature at The University of Central Missouri, in Warrensburg MO. houses an extensive collection of Terry Trueman's personal papers, photographs, videos and other materials relating to the writings and life.
Kirkus, which nominated the book for its Kirkus Prize, praised both its writing and timelines: "With smooth but powerful prose ... This story is necessary. This story is important." Young adult literature expert Michael Cart, writing in Booklist, also praised Thomas's writing as Starr: "Beautifully written in Starr's authentic first-person voice, this is a marvel of verisimilitude." While praising the overall book in a starred review, School Library Journals Mahnaz Dar criticized the writing of several characters as "slightly uneven".
Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi is a 2000 young adult literature novel by German author David Chotjewitz, translated into English by Doris Orgel. The first US edition was published in 2004 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. The novel is set in Hamburg, Germany in flashback and forward between 1945 at the end of World War II and in the 1930s, during the rise of the Nazi party. It deals with the effects of antisemitism on two friends.
He served as president of a private equity firm in New York City before changing careers in 1990, when he returned to Colorado to become a full-time writer and conservationist. Since then, he has written more than thirty novels, children's books, non-fiction books, and nature books. In 2011, he received The de Grummond Medallion for "lifetime contribution to the field of children's and young adult literature." He has also won the Nautilus Award Grand Prize, and many other literary awards.
2015 winner Jakob Wegelius The Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize is awarded for a work of children's or young adult literature written in one of the languages of the Nordic countries. It was established by the Nordic Council in 2012 after an initiative by ministers of culture in the Nordic countries. The prize was first awarded on 30 October 2013. Two works are nominated each year from each of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden).
Reference assistance can be accessed by telephone, e-mail, instant messaging, text messaging, and in- person in the Library. The Henry Madden Library features a number of special collections such as the Arne Nixon Center, a research center for the study of children's and young adult literature, and the Central Valley Political Archive. Michael Gorman, the former dean of the Library, was the President of the American Library Association in 2005–2006. As of 2017, Delritta Hornbuckle is the Library's Dean.
Lowry has been nominated three times for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. She was a finalist in 2000, a U.S. nominee in 2004, and a finalist in 2016. In 2007, she received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her contributions writing for teens. The ALA Margaret Edwards Award recognizes one writer and a particular body of work for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature".
Pervik began her schooling at Järvakandi Factories in 1939, continued in 1946–1950 in Tallinn, and graduated from Tartu State University in 1955 with a degree in Finno-Ugric philology. Pervik has lived in Tallinn since 1955. She worked at the Estonian State Publishing House as an editor of children’s and young-adult literature, and at the Eesti Televisioon (ETV) studio as an editor of programs for the same age group. Since 1967, she has been a freelance writer and translator from Hungarian.
While writing the AFI award-winning screenplay Marchetta taught English, Italian and History full-time for ten years at a city high school for boys. During that time she released her second novel, Saving Francesca in 2003, followed by On the Jellicoe Road in 2006. Both novels have been published in more than 6 countries, with Saving Francesca translated into 4 languages. In its U.S. edition, Jellicoe Road won the 2009 Printz Award for "literary excellence in young adult literature".
Andrea Jutson is a writer who was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. She has published two crime novels featuring reticent medium James Paxton, Senseless (Random House, 2005) and The Darkness Looking Back (Random House, 2008). She was also short-listed for the 2011 Tessa Duder Award for New Zealand young adult literature for her unpublished manuscript, Cursed. Jutson has loved reading and writing her entire life, and was a bookseller for eight years, before working as a journalist for The Aucklander.
Vernon's cover for Best in Show won the 2003 Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Published Illustration. She was nominated for the 2006 Eisner Awards in the category Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition for her work on Digger. Digger has won some Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards, and has been nominated for others, in the Outstanding Black and White Art and Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic categories. Digger won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story in 2012 and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in 2013.
Na grew up in San Diego, California, and has a bachelor of arts from Amherst College. Starting her career as a middle school English and History teacher, Na turned to writing novels after taking a young adult literature class while enrolled in an M.F.A. program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She divides her time between Oakland, California and Warren, Vermont, and makes frequent visits to middle schools to talk about her works and encourages young Asian-American students to become artists and harness their creativity.
A decade later, Tucker Reed located the box that held Moore's earliest notes on and drafts of the Amber House story. Believing the concept well-suited for young adult literature, Tucker persuaded Moore to collaborate on a novel; Moore's daughter Larkin was later included in the collaboration, as well. The authors cite as inspiration the films Back to the Future, Jumanji, Labyrinth and The Shining, as well as an episode of the original Lost in Space television series, and Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden.
SCBWI is a non-profit organization specifically for those involved with children and young adult literature. Along with her interest in working with other writers, she is also a strong supporter of charitable organizations and environmental awareness. Carey demonstrates her support by linking each of her novels to a charitable organization, hoping to empower readers to make a difference in the world. Between finding time for her group work and writing, Carey has also dedicated much of her time to hosting writing retreats for future authors.
Lover Come Back dust jacket (Gramercy, 1940) Representing Blank's short-lived foray into adult literature, Lover Come Back was published in 1940 by Gramercy. It does not appear to have ever been reprinted in novel form, although notifications in The Pittsburgh Press suggest that it was printed in a "Complete Novel Section" therein on April 13, 1941. As a result of this limited print run, Lover Come Back is Blank's scarcest published novel. Lover Come Back echoes the Beverly Gray series in both plot and writing style.
In Mike We Trust is a young adult gay novel by P. E. Ryan first published in 2009. It depicts a teenage gay boy who falls under the sway of his con artist uncle (who is the twin brother of the boy's recently deceased father). The boy struggles with his sexual orientation as well as the need for honesty when his beloved role model asks him to lie. The book was a Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature,Gonzalez, Antonio.
The program guides preschool teachers, or care givers, during 20 minutes sessions, in developing emotional intelligence and conflict resolution by appealing to the imagination of young children. Many Ecuadorian daycare centers have used it successfully. In 1996, Edna founded the Union of Writers of Literature for Children (UDELI), with the idea of helping writers of children and young adult literature to publish. The international publishing houses which were operating in Ecuador at the time only commercialized children books from Hispanic writers or translations from other languages.
The Wave is a 1981 young adult novel by Todd Strasser under the pen name Morton Rhue (though it has been reprinted under Todd Strasser's real name). It is a novelization of a teleplay by Johnny Dawkins for the movie The Wave, a fictionalized account of the "Third Wave" teaching experiment by Ron Jones that took place in an Ellwood P. Cubberley High School history class in Palo Alto, California. The novel by Strasser won the 1981 Massachusetts Book Award for Children's/Young Adult literature.
The book was well reviewed, receiving starred reviews from The Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, and School Library Journal. It was the fourth most ordered book at the New York Public Library in 2018. The Poet X was the recipient of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2018. At the 2019 Youth Media Awards the book won the Pura Belpré Award, for a Latina writer who best portrays the Latino experience for children, and the Michael Printz Award for best young adult literature.
The first book in the trilogy, The Sin Eater's Daughter, was published in paperback in the UK on 24 February 2015 and simultaneously published in hardback in the US with a slightly altered cover. A year later, on 4 February 2016, the sequel, The Sleeping Prince, was published in the UK with the US hardback edition releasing a couple of months later on 31 May. On 29 July, an exclusive short story, The King of Rats, became available for any attendees at Young Adult Literature Convention. This was a short booklet available for free.
Maureen Daly (March 15, 1921 – September 25, 2006), was an Irish-born American writer best known for her 1942 novel Seventeenth Summer, which she wrote while still in her teens. Originally published for adults, it described a contemporary teenage romance and drew a large teenage audience. It is regarded by some as the first young adult novel, although the concept of young adult literature was not developed until the 1960s, more than twenty years later. At age 16, Daly also wrote an award-winning short story, "Sixteen", that appeared in many anthologies.
From 1920 to 1926, Green established the Jones Library in the temporary space nearby the building site and expanded the collection. Over five thousand books were received from the recently closed Amherst town library, and the Boltwood family donated a collection of local history books and manuscripts. In 1922 the library began to host programming in one of the rented rooms, including academic lectures, storytelling, and adult literature classes. On December 9, 1926, a fire broke out in the apartment building that served as the library's temporary location.
Although categorized as young adult literature, Harriet's Daughter is a book that can appeal to older children and adults of all ages. Set in Toronto, this novel explores the themes of friendship, self-image, ethics and migration, while telling a story that is riveting, funny and technically accomplished. It makes the fact of being Black a very positive and enhancing experience. Philip's most renowned poetry book, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks, was awarded the Casa de las Américas Prize for Literature while still in manuscript form.
The anthology of 15 poems about Jamaican culture received a commendation from the Américas Awards for children's and young adult literature. Subsequent works included Under the Breadfruit Tree: Island Poems (1998) and America, My New Home (2004). Gunning brings her own experience as both a child in Jamaica and a young immigrant to the United States to her work. Her 2004 book about a girl and her mother dealing with homelessness, A Shelter in Our Car, was developed in collaboration with the Homeless Children's Network in San Francisco.
Milton Meltzer (May 8, 1915 – September 19, 2009) was an American historian and author best known for his nonfiction books on Jewish, African-American, and American history. Since the 1950s, he was a prolific author of history books in the children's literature and young adult literature genres, having written nearly 100 books. Meltzer was an advocate for human rights, as well as an adjunct professor for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He won the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his career contribution to American children's literature in 2001.
Jane Kurtz (born April 17, 1952) is an American writer of including more than thirty picture books, middle-grade novels, nonfiction, ready-to-reads, and books for educators. A member of the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in children's and adult literature, Kurtz is an international advocate for literacy and writing. She was also part of a small group of volunteers who organized the not-for-profit organization, Ethiopia Reads, which has established more than seventy libraries for children, published books, and built four schools in rural Ethiopia.
In 2011, Malinda Lo co-founded Diversity in YA, a website and book tour to promote and celebrate diverse representations in young adult literature, with fellow young adult author Cindy Pon.Welcome to Diversity in YA Fiction! Diversity in YA highlights books with characters of color, LGBTQ characters, and disabled characters and collects data on the number of books with diverse characters and authors that are published annually. Starting in 2012, Lo has periodically published analysis of the diversity in Publishers Weekly and New York Times bestselling young adult novels.
Gudrun Pausewang (3 March 1928 – 23 January 2020), less commonly known by her married name, Gudrun Wilcke, was a German author of children's and young adult literature. She was known for books such as The Last Children of Schewenborn and Die Wolke (translated as Fall-Out) which were made part of German school canons. Among her primary topics were work for peace and protection of the environment, namely warning of the dangers of nuclear energy. Her books have been translated into English and received international recognition and awards.
In June 2011 Wall Street Journal critic Meghan Cox Gurdon cited Shine as an example of the prevalence of dark themes in young adult literature. Gurdon criticized the language in the novel and compared it to novels by Judy Blume, saying that while it was "probably apt" for the characters in the book, she wasn't sure that it was language that parents might want their children to read. Gurdon's article was met with criticism by many. Myracle initially responded by calling the article "idiocy, to be blunt" but later issued an apology to Gurdon.
Myers received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1994 for his contribution in writing for teens. For his lifetime contribution as a children's writer he was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2010. The ALA Margaret A. Edwards Award recognizes one writer and a particular body of work for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature". Myers won the annual award in 1994, citing four books published from 1983 to 1988: Hoops (1983), Motown and Didi (1985), Fallen Angels (1988), and Scorpions (1988).
The young-adult librarians observed that "these books authentically portray African-American youth, but their appeal is not limited to any particular ethnic group. The writing of Walter Dean Myers illustrates the universality of the teenage experience in urban America." He was a two- time runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal, recognizing the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children", in 1989 for The Scorpion and in 1993 for Somewhere in the Darkness. The ALA split the Newbery several years later, establishing the Michael L. Printz Award for young-adult literature.
Unwind is a 2007 dystopian novel by young adult literature author Neal Shusterman. It takes place in the United States in the near future. After the Second Civil War was fought over abortion, a compromise was reached, allowing parents to sign an order for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 to be "unwound" — taken to "harvest kill camps" and dissected into their body parts for later use. The reasoning is that, since 99.44% of the body is used, unwinds do not technically die because their individual body parts live on.
The Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Literature is a Canadian literary award, presented annually to works judged to be the best works of young adult literature published by indigenous writers in Canada."Thomas King, Bev Sellars among finalists for 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature". Quill & Quire, September 3, 2014. The award is sponsored by the Canadian Organization for Development through Education (CODE), a Canadian charitable organization devoted to literacy and education, and philanthropist William Burt, and administered by the Canada Council.
Her novel, Mira, Mirror won the Utah Letters About Literature award in 2006. In 2007 Harrison's The Princess and the Hound was a finalist for the Association for Mormon Letters (AML) Young Adult Literature award. The Bishop's Wife was a finalist for the AML Novel Award in 2014, and His Right Hand was a finalist for the same award in 2015. Harrison regularly wrote in the religion section of The Huffington Post on topics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) over the span of 2015–2017.
The Buried Giant is a fantasy novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, published in March 2015. The novel follows an elderly Briton couple, Axl and Beatrice, living in a fictional post-Arthurian England in which no-one is able to retain long term memories. After dimly recalling that they might years earlier have had a son, the couple decide to travel to a neighbouring village to seek him out. The book was nominated for the 2016 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and the 2016 Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature.
The APALA incorporated in 1981 (in Illinois) and became part of the ALA in 1982. The awards honor books about Asian/Pacific Americans, their history and culture. Categories have included fiction and non-fiction for adults, picture/illustrated books, and children's/young-adult literature. Writers and artists do not need to be of Asian or Pacific Islander ancestry, but they must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, the books must be about Asian/Pacific American heritage, and must have been written in English and published for general release within the States.
Le Guin had no previous experience specifically with the genre of young adult literature, which rose in prominence during the late 1960s. Drawing from her short stories, Le Guin began work on A Wizard of Earthsea. Le Guin has said that the book was in part a response to the image of wizards as ancient and wise, and to her wondering where they come from. Le Guin later said that she chose the medium of fantasy, and the theme of coming of age, with her intended adolescent audience in mind.
Parks's story "The Ogre's Wife" won the SF Age Reader's Poll for short story in 1995. His writings have also received nominations for the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award; more specifically, his collection The Ogre's Wife: Fairy Tales For Grownups (2002), described by one reviewer as an "absolute treasure of a collection," was nominated for the 2003 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection,World Fantasy Convention - List of Nominees for the World Fantasy Award and his novella The Heavenly Fox (2011) was nominated for the 2012 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.
The Nac Mac Feegle have inspired a number of critical observations. Eileen Donaldson, writing in The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature: Essays on Stories from Grimm to Gaiman, notes that Pratchett "satirizes our expectation of fairy-folk (wings, flowers, and "tinklyness") through the Feegles who curse, drink, fight, steal, cause chaos and are feared by everyone". Lawrence Watt-Evans notes that one's "first impression is that they're a cross between Smurfs and soccer hooligans". Stephen Briggs' audiobook rendering of the Nac Mac Feegle has been cited as a strong point of his work.
Cristina de Queiroz (born 1944 – death 2017) is a Brazilian writer. At the age of 30, she won the Jabuti Prize and had one of her texts adapted for the theater in Germany. She is the author of the short story book "O visitante de verão", which received the 1974 Jabuti Prize, from the Câmara Brasileira do Livro, in the category Author-revelation / adult literature. The short story "Piano" was published in the short story book "O conto da mulher brasileira", organized by Edla van Steen, Editora Global, 2007.
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a 2015 young adult novel and the debut book by American author Becky Albertalli. The coming-of-age story focuses on its titular protagonist Simon Spier, a closeted gay high-school aged boy who is forced to come out after a blackmailer discovers Simon's e-mails written to another closeted classmate with whom he has fallen in love. Albertalli received the William C. Morris Award from the American Library Association, an annual honor for young adult literature, as well as internationally the German Youth Literature Prize.
In 1989, Bornstein created a theatre production in collaboration with Noreen Barnes, Hidden: A Gender, based on parallels between her own life and that of the intersex person Herculine Barbin. In 2009, Bornstein's Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for LGBT Nonfiction and Honorbook for the Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature. Bornstein edited Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation in collaboration with S. Bear Bergman. The anthology won Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle Awards in 2011.
His first novel, The New Front Line, was published in 1927. Throughout his career, he also published poetry, short stories, theatrical and radio plays, juvenile and young adult literature, and non- fiction writing on First Nations culture and nature and conservation topics. He is best known for his novel, Mist on the River (1954) which was based on his experience with the Gitxsan people of the Skeena valley. The book interweaves the stories of six members of the same family including the central character who will eventually become chief.
Recently, a commission for Radio 7, (now called BBC radio 4 Extra), called Jefferson 37 by Jenny Stephens also explores the same theme in a four-part radio play. The whole plot takes place within Abbotsville, a free range laboratory, where the clones are deliberately dehumanised. The story culminates with their humanity resisting the desire to quash it. The plot of Unwind, a 2007 science fiction novel by young adult literature author Neal Shusterman, takes place in the United States, after a civil war somewhere in the near future.
Arte Público has now published over 600 books. In 1990, Arte Público launched the "Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage" project in order to recover, index and publish lost Latino writings dating from the American colonial period to 1960. In 1994, they created Piñata Books, their children's and young adult literature imprint. Arte Público has published Lamberto Alvarez, Victor Villaseñor, Nicholasa Mohr, Luis Valdez, Miguel Piñero, Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, Helena Maria Viramontes, Sergio Troncoso, Miguel Algarín, Graciela Limón, Gwendolyn Zepeda, Daniel Olivas, Daniel Chacón, Pat Mora, and José Ángel Gutiérrez.
Awarded primary custody of her three children (Larkin, born in 1993, and John, born in 1996), Moore moved to Oregon. In 2009, Moore's eldest, Tucker, began to research Moore's genealogy, which can be traced through Commander Moore to Stephen Hopkins, Jamestown colonist and signer of the Mayflower Compact. Tucker located a box in the family attic which held Moore and Reed's earliest notes on and drafts of the Amber House story. Believing the concept well- suited for young adult literature, Tucker persuaded her mother to collaborate on a novel; Moore's daughter Larkin was later included in the collaboration, as well.
Mika Rissanen (born 1978) is a Finnish history researcher and author of non- fiction and young adult literature. In 2005, Rissanen's book Antiikin Urheilu (Sports in Antiquity, co-written with Sami Koski and Juha Tahvanainen) won Tieto-Finlandia award for the best non-fiction book in Finland. In 2016 his non-fiction book Down Beer Street: History in a Pint Glass (co-written with Juha Tahvanainen) was published in English, in German and in Italian. Rissanen has written his young adult thrillers, Arkeomysteeri series (Archeomystery) in co-operation with Juha Tahvanainen using the pseudonym Nemo Rossi.
In the 21st century, much of LGBT literature has achieved a high level of sophistication and many works have earned mainstream acclaim. Notable authors include Alan Hollinghurst, André Aciman, Michael Cunningham, Michael Chabon, Colm Tóibín, Sarah Waters, John Boyne, Pablo Soler Frost, Jamie O'Neill, and Andrew Sean Greer. Greer, an openly gay man, won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Less. LGBT themes have also become more visible in a growing body of high-quality young adult literature, with notable authors including Alex Sánchez, Stephen Chbosky, Shyam Selvadurai, Perry Moore, Adam Silvera, and David Levithan.
Reviews have been very complimentary, with The Times Online saying "This is a wonderful, grown-up fantasy about growing up and moving on, and going home." and The Guardian commenting "Mythago Wood was a seminal expression of British fantasy, and Avilion, though lacking its predecessor's narrative drive and intensity, is an enthralling reworking of myth and a haunting vision of love and loss unmatched in contemporary fantasy." Avilion was a finalist for a 2010 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in the Adult Literature Category. It won the 2010 Best Fantasy and Horror Award from the Czech Akademie of Science Fiction.
Lois McMaster Bujold ( ; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Her novella "The Mountains of Mourning" won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for Paladin of Souls.
Reviewing the book in The Guardian, Diane Samuels criticized the writing, describing it as "prosaic" and "resorting to passages that tell the reader how it is rather than allowing the characters to live and breathe." She found it emotionally shallow and politically simplistic, saying: "More complexity is needed to grapple meaningfully with the psychological impact of such a profound alienation between adults and children." Nicolette Jones, writing in the Sunday Times, was more positive, describing the book as a "fine debut" and "convincing." The series is part of a larger trend of dystopian young adult literature, and has attracted scholarly attention.
They shared a concern about recent developments in children's literature and society's attitudes towards children. They felt that older children's literature had been moving closer to adult literature, and that the book had taken them "further than [they'd] ever been taken before" towards that end. They felt it necessary to address "meaningful violence" and "the strongest of human passions" in the novel, because these were "the preoccupations with which our children are, we know, at the moment filled." Blishen and Garfield used four source texts: E. V. Rieu's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Metamorphoses, and Robert Graves' The Greek Myths.
Refugee is a young adult literature novel by Alan Gratz published in 2017. The book revolves around three main characters from three different eras: Nazi Germany, 1990s Cuba, and modern Syria. It follows German Jew Josef in the 1930's, who tries to escape Germany to Cuba, Cuban girl Isabel in 1994, who tries to escape Cuba's hunger crisis following the dissolution of the Soviet Union to the US, and Mahmoud, a Syrian youth in 2015 whose house gets hit by a missile and whose family decides to emigrate to Germany. It received positive reviews that praised style and historical accuracy.
The first book in the series was chosen by Amazon as the Best Teen Book of 2011, and the sequel, Days of Blood and Starlight, was also on the list in 2012. In 2017, she published Strange the Dreamer, followed by its sequel Muse of Nightmares in 2018, in which protagonist Lazlo Strange, a scribe and polyglot, journeys to the Lost City of Weep. Taylor created a unique language for this world, which she weaves into the plot. Strange the Dreamer became a Michael L. Printz Honor Book as well as the 2018 Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature.
In the 1950s, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), attracted the attention of the adolescent demographic although it was written for adults. The themes of adolescent angst and alienation in the novel have become synonymous with young adult literature. The modern classification of young- adult fiction originated during the 1960s, after the publication of S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders (1967). The novel features a truer, darker side of adolescent life that was not often represented in works of fiction of the time, and was the first novel published specifically marketed for young adults as Hinton was one when she wrote it.
The book was released on September 4, 2018, and is told from two perspectives: some chapters offering Sadie's point of view and some chapters being styled as transcripts from a podcast. The release of the book was accompanied by the release of a mock true-crime podcast titled The Girls: Find Sadie which is available on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. Sadie became a New York Times bestseller on September 29, 2018, and has been awarded the 2019 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult literature from the Mystery Writers of America. Sadie also won the 2019 Odyssey Award from the American Library Association.
The Commonwealth Club sponsors the California Book Awards, which were initiated in 1931 to honor "exceptional literary merit of California writers and publishers". The California Book Awards are funded by an endowment from Dr. Martha Heasley Cox, late Professor of American Literature at San Jose State University. Medals (gold and silver) and cash prizes are currently awarded in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, First Work of Fiction, Californiana (fiction or nonfiction relating to California), Juvenile Literature (up to age 10), Young Adult Literature (age 11–16), and Notable Contribution to Publishing. The winning books are selected by an independent jury.
The Margaret A. Edwards Award is an American Library Association (ALA) literary award that annually recognizes an author and "a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature". It is named for Margaret A. Edwards (1902–1988), the pioneer, longtime director of young adult services at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. The award was inaugurated in 1988 as the biennial "School Library Journal Young Adult Author Award/Selected and Administered by the American Library Association's Young Adult Services Division". After 1990 it was renamed and made annual.
Gill began his writing career by publishing short stories in small magazines, including The Crescent Review and Writer's Forum. In 2005, Scarecrow Press published his critical biography Graham Salisbury: Island Boy, a reference book intended for scholars of young adult literature. His debut novel, Soul Enchilada was published to acclaim in 2009. A second YA novel, Black Hole Sun, August 2010 has received a starred review from Booklist, as well as recommendations from several authors: > The sins of his father weigh heavily on Durango, an outcast teen mercenary > who's trying to eke out a living on tomorrow's gritty, trigger-happy Mars.
Draper at BookExpo America in 2018 Sharon Mills Draper (born August 21, 1948)"Sharon M. Draper: Embracing Literacy" by KaaVonia Hinton, Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature, 31, Scarecrow Press, 2008Simon and Schuster Authors A-Z: Sharon M. Draper is an American children's writer, professional educator, and the 1997 National Teacher of the Year. She is a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for books about the young and adolescent African-American experience. She is known for her Hazelwood and Jericho series, Copper Sun, Double Dutch, Out of My Mind and Romiette and Julio.
The term children's literature criticism includes both generalist discussions of the relationship between children's literature and literary theory and literary analyses of a specific works of children's literature. Some academics consider young adult literature to be included under the rubric of 'children's literature.' Nearly every school of theoretical thought has been applied to children's literature, most commonly reader response (Chambers 1980) and new criticism. However, other schools have been applied in controversial and influential ways, including Orientalism (Nodelman 1992), feminist theory (Paul 1987), postmodernism (Stevenson 1994), structuralism (Neumeyer 1977), post- structuralism (Rose, 1984, Lesnik-Oberstein, 1994) and many others.
The American Library Association sponsors and juries many annual literary awards, such as the Newbery Medal, the Caldecott Medal, and the Alex Award. Booklist itself sponsors three main awards: the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, and the Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production. The Printz Award is administered by the Young Adult Library Services Association. The Carnegie Medals are administered by an annually appointed selection committee, including a chair, three Booklist editors or contributors, and three former members of the RUSA CODES Notable Books Council.
Digger has won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Award for "Outstanding Black and White Art" in 2005 and 2006, and for "Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic" in 2006. In 2006, Digger was nominated for an Eisner Award in the category "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition". The collected Digger won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story and the 2013 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. Tor.com has described Digger as "fantastic-in-all-senses-of-the-word", praising Vernon's pacing and "tone-perfect mythology", while SF Signal declared that Digger "deserves to be appreciated" and Black Gate lauded Vernon for her portrayal of cultural relativity.
Margarita del Mazo earned a law degree from the Complutense University of Madrid. In the late 1990s she began narrating live stories, and in 2009 she published her first book, La máscara del león. She teaches storytelling, creative writing, reading animation, puppet and theater workshops, as well as teacher training courses in and private centers (nursery schools and institutes). She collaborates with the Instituto Cervantes on several of its festivals (Day E, Festival Ñ and Cervantino Day of Children's and Young Adult Literature), in different national and international venues, with presentations, workshops, author meetings and narration sessions.
Her story collections are Last Summer at Mars Hill (1998) (which includes the Nebula and World Fantasy award-winning title novella); Bibliomancy (2002), winner of the World Fantasy Award; and Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories, which includes the Nebula Award-winning "Echo" (2006). Mortal Love was also shortlisted for the 2005 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. Among Hand's other recent short fiction, "Pavane for a Prince of the Air" (2002) and "Cleopatra Brimstone" (2001) won International Horror Guild Awards. Most recently, she won the Shirley Jackson Award for Generation Loss and the World Fantasy Award in 2008 for Illyria.
The first three Earthsea novels received critical acclaim as works for children when they were published. The classification of the original trilogy as children's literature was decried by many critics, such as Barbara Bucknall, who stated that the stories were "ageless because they deal with problems that confront us at any age", and could be read by both children and adults. It took several decades and the publication of a fourth novel, Tehanu for the series to be recognized as adult literature. Two more books were published in subsequent years; Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind, both in 2001.
Since 1971 the Mythopoeic Society has bestowed a series of annual awards to outstanding works. In 1991 the literary award was broken into two categories: the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature. The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to books on J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and/or Charles Williams that make significant contributions to Inklings scholarship. The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies is given to scholarly books on other specific authors in the Inklings tradition, or to more general works on the genres of myth and fantasy.
And Newsweek declared that "reading this book is like sipping hot cider in front of a crackling potbellied stove. Every page is suffused with wit and charm and glowing with warmth." A Day No Pigs Would Die is an early book in the development of the adolescent literature genre. It was written during the second generation of young adult literature, so it was able to avoid what young adult novelist Richard Peck described as "an annoying pioneer period that coincided with the late 1960s in which a great many books were pretty cheap propaganda", that disappeared rapidly with the demise of the youth culture of the 1960s.
In 2014 Dimaline was named the Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier's Awards for Excellence in the Arts. The Marrow Thieves has earned Dimaline a number of literary awards; for an extensive list see, The Marrow Thieves, Awards. It won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the 2017 Governor General's Awards and the 2017 Kirkus Prize in the young adult literature category, and it was a finalist in the CBC's 2018 Canada Reads competition and the 2018 White Pine Award. Notably, Dimaline's acceptance speech for the 2017 Governor General's Award for English Young Adult Fiction was delivered by her friend Susan Blight in Anishinaabemowin.
In 1974, inspirational conservationist and writer Sigurd F. Olson won the John Burroughs Medal for his book, Wilderness Days. Since 1992, and in the spirit of celebrating Sigurd’s literary legacy, the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute (SOEI) at Northland College has recognized remarkable environmental adult literature that captures the spirit of the human relationship with the natural world, and promotes the values that preserve or restore the land for future generations. Since 2004, the SOEI has recognized a children's book of literacy nature writing—nonfiction or fiction—that captures the spirit of the human relationship with nature, and promotes the awareness, preservation, appreciation, or restoration of the natural world for future generations.
The ALA Margaret A. Edwards Award recognizes one writer and a particular body of work "for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature." Anderson won the annual award in 2009, citing three novels published from 1999 to 2002: Speak, Fever 1793, and Catalyst. The ALA called the novels "gripping and exceptionally well-written" and the panel chair said that "Laurie Halse Anderson masterfully gives voice to teen characters undergoing transformations in their lives through their honesty and perseverance while finding the courage to be true to themselves." In 2017 she received the Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature, a career award presented by the Tulsa City-County Library.
The book was recognized in 2018 by the American Library Association with the William C. Morris Award for best debut book for teens, the Coretta Scott King Award for the best novel by an African-American author for children, and was an honor book for the Michael L. Printz Award for best novel for teens. The novel also won the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize and American Bookseller's Association Indie Award for Best Young Adult Novel. The Hate U Give was named to the National Book Awards longlist for young adult literature, was nominated for the 2018 Carnegie Medal, and won the 2018 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in the "young adult jury" section.
She holds a B.A. in Theatre and English from Sul Ross State University in Alpine and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. McCall currently serves as an Assistant Professor of English at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. Her first novel, Under the Mesquite, debuted in October 2011 and received the prestigious Pura Belpré Medal for narrative in 2012. She has written three more young adult novels in addition to many stories and poems that have been published in periodicals. Garcia McCall has been called "a leading voice in Chicana and Latina children’s and young adult literature".
Clayton is Chief Operating Officer of We Need Diverse Books, which seeks to increase representations of marginalized groups in children and young adult literature. She also works as a sensitivity reader for children's literature and works to identify stereotypes or inauthentic portrayals of Black characters. She has also advocated for books to better represent people of color. In 2019, Clayton attracted criticism for using abusive and violent language towards a student of Northern State University, who had advocated for the inclusion of three books by persons of colour, including Bryan Stevenson's memoir Just Mercy about racial injustice, instead of a YA novel by Sarah Dessen, in the university's 'Common Reads' program.
Mackler at the Banned Books Week Read-Out in Chicago, 2007 Carolyn Mackler (born July 13, 1973 in Manhattan) is an American author of young adult literature. She has written nine novels including Infinite in Between; Love and Other Four-Letter Words; The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, which won an honorable mention from the Michael L. Printz award; Vegan Virgin Valentine; Guyaholic; and Tangled. Her novels are in print in more than 20 countries such as: the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, Denmark, Israel, and Indonesia. Mackler has also contributed to many magazines including Seventeen, Storyworks, Glamour, Girl's Life, and American Girl.
The series has also received accolades from outside Australia. The American Library Association recognised Tomorrow, When the War Began as one of the best young adult novels published in the United States in 1996, then again in 2000 as one of the best 100 books for teenage readers published since 1966. In 1999, The Third Day, The Frost won the Buxtehude Bull, a prestigious German prize for young adult literature. In 2000, the Swedish Government arranged for the translation and distribution of Tomorrow, When the War Began to every child of appropriate age in the country because it was thought the book would be enjoyed by reluctant readers.
The ALA Margaret A. Edwards Award recognizes one writer and a particular body of work "for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature." Garden won the annual award in 2003, when the panel cited Annie on My Mind alone and called her "the first author for young adults to create a lesbian love story with a positive ending ... Using a fluid, readable style, Garden opens a window through which readers can find courage to be true to themselves." Five years later Garden recalled that "I was and still am enormously grateful ... for YALSA’s recognition ... of the importance of YA books about LGBT youth.""Looking Back". YALSA. ALA. 2008.
The Hoy en la Educación Foundation named its annual literary contest after her. She only asked it give its award to new, unpublished authors of children and young adult literature, since she wanted to encourage them. She has presented and discussed her literature in hundreds of visits to schools and dozens of radio, television, newspaper and magazine interviews. Her literature has become part of the curriculum of Children's Literature studies at several Ecuadorian universities such as Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja (UTPL) Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Universidad de Cuenca Ecuador, Universidad Técnica de Machala, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Universidad Tecnológica del Equinoccial (UTE).
ALAN, The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents is a teachers organization in the United States, an independent assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Founded in November 1973, ALAN is made up of teachers, authors, librarians, publishers, teacher-educators and their students, and others who are particularly interested in the area of young adult literature. ALAN, which is self-governing, holds its annual meetings during the NCTE annual convention in November and also publishes The ALAN Review. Almost from its inception, ALAN has given the ALAN award to honor those who have made outstanding contributions to the field of adolescent literature.
They have attracted a wide adult audience as well as younger readers and are often considered cornerstones of modern young adult literature. , the books have sold more than 500 million copies worldwide, making them the best-selling book series in history, and have been translated into eighty languages. The last four books consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books in history, with the final installment selling roughly eleven million copies in the United States within twenty-four hours of its release. The series was originally published in English by two major publishers, Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom and Scholastic Press in the United States.
Much of his writing is targeted to children and young adults (particularly sports-themed and World War II-era books), although he is also well known to adult readers of LDS Fiction for Children of the Promise and Hearts of the Children series, set in World War II and Vietnam War eras respectively. According to Eugene England, Hughes is one of the authors of the fourth and current period of Mormon literature who is credited with writing high quality children's and young adult literature. In 2001, his World War II novel Soldier Boys was published. In September 2013, Hughes celebrated the publication of his 100th book, Through Cloud and Sunshine.
Kissing Shakespeare is a debut novel of a former American teacher and librarian-turned-writer Pamela Mingle. It was published as a young adult literature book on August 14, 2012 by Delacorte Books. There are no records of William Shakespeare's life between his birth in 1564 to his arrival in London in 1590, although he was speculated to be a schoolteacher before becoming a playwright. Mingle's novel sets during what historians referred as Shakespeare's "lost years," using clues from the 1580s, to create a romantic fantasy centering on a love triangle composed of a contemporary teenage girl from the 21st century, a time traveler from the past, and William Shakespeare.
Frank Portman (born September 21, 1964), better known by the pseudonym Dr. Frank, is an American musician, singer, guitarist, and author. He is the singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the Berkeley, California punk rock band The Mr. T Experience, and has remained the only consistent member of the band since its formation in 1985, performing on ten studio albums and five EPs. He has also recorded and performed as a solo artist, releasing the album Show Business is My Life in 1999 and the EP Eight Little Songs in 2003. In recent years he has pursued a writing career in young adult literature, authoring the novels King Dork (2006), Andromeda Klein (2009), and King Dork Approximately (2014).
The annual Rainbow List is created by the GLBT Round Table of the American Library Association. This best-of-the-year list, selected by librarians who are members for the GLBTRT, and, in its inaugural year. Another indication, some say, that gay young adult novels have gained wider acceptance in recent years is the fact that, since 1999, four gay-themed books, or books with gay secondary characters, have won the Young Adult Library Services Association's Michael L. Printz Award. This award, named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian and sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association, is given in recognition of a work that demonstrates literary excellence in young adult literature.
Tamora Pierce (born December 13, 1954) is an American writer of fantasy fiction for teenagers, known best for stories featuring young heroines. She made a name for herself with her first book series, The Song of the Lioness (1983–1988), which followed the main character Alanna through the trials and triumphs of training as a knight. Pierce won the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) of the American Library Association in 2013, citing her two quartets Song of the Lioness and Protector of the Small (1999–2002). The annual award recognizes one writer and a particular body of work for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature".
The novel was well received, with The Independent calling Nation 'one of his finest books yet',Nation, by Terry Pratchett the Washington Post 'a thrilling story',Michael Dirda on 'Nation' and The Guardian printing "Nation has profound, subtle and original things to say about the interplay between tradition and knowledge, faith and questioning."Leader of men Times Online called the novel "Thought-provoking as well as fun, this is Terry Pratchett at his most philosophical, with characters and situations sprung from ideas and games with language. And it celebrates the joy of the moment."Nation by Terry Pratchett Nation was an Honor Book in the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.
Bryan has received two American Library Association career literary awards for his "significant and lasting contributions", the 2009 Wilder Medal and the 2012 King–Hamilton Award. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) biennially recognizes one writer or illustrator of children's books published in the U.S. The committee named Dancing Granny, Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum, and Beautiful Blackbird in particular and cited his "varied art forms". The Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award from the Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) biennially recognizes one African-American writer or illustrator of children's or young- adult literature. In 2008 Bryan was named a Literary Lion by The New York Public Library.
The Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction is an annual American children's book award that recognizes historical fiction. It was established in 1982 by Scott O'Dell, author of Island of the Blue Dolphins and 25 other children's books, in hopes of increasing young readers' interest in the history that shaped their nation and their world. Eligibility for the award requires that a book be written in English for children or young adults, published by an American publisher, and the author must be a United States citizen. The award is recognized in the United States by publishers of children's literature and young adult literature, the American Library Association, and the Assembly for Literature of Adolescents.
While not technically YA, its success led many to see Harry Potter and its author, J.K. Rowling, as responsible for a resurgence of young adult literature, and re-established the pre-eminent role of speculative fiction in the field, a trend further solidified by The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The end of the decade saw a number of awards appear such as the Michael L. Printz Award and Alex Awards, designed to recognize excellence in writing for young adult audiences. The category of young adult fiction continues to expand into other media and genres: graphic novels/manga, light novels, fantasy, mystery fiction, romance novels, and even subcategories such as cyberpunk, techno-thrillers, and contemporary Christian fiction.
Steptoe's Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat was initially inspired by an exhibit he saw of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's artwork at the Brooklyn Museum in 2005. The resulting picture book won the 2017 Caldecott Medal as well as the Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature and the Coretta Scott King Book Award from the American Library Association. Steptoe's other works include illustrating Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix (Clarion Books, 2010) and writing and illustrating In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers (Lee & Low Books, 1997), which also won the Coretta Scott King Book Award.
His first novel was influenced by Julio Cortázar and consequently shows the influence of the then-prevalent literary experimentalism, as well as the uncertainty of a fledgling author. Although very original, his second book, Cerbero son las sombras (1975), obtained the Premio Sésamo and garnered a positive critical response. Thanks to an enthusiastic member of the judges panel for the Premio Sésamo, Juan García Hortelano, Millás was able to publish Visión del ahogado (1977) and El jardín vacío (The empty garden) (1981) with the prestigious publisher Alfaguara. But his most popular novel was Papel mojado (1983), an assignment for a publisher of young adult literature that was a commercial success and continues to sell well.
Alice Kuipers (born 29 June 1979) is a British-born author living in Saskatchewan, Canada who is best known for her young adult novels. Life on the Refrigerator Door won the Grand Prix de Viarmes, the Livrentête Prize, the Redbridge Teenage Book Award in 2008 and the Saskatchewan First Book Award in 2007, was narrated as an audio book by Amanda Seyfried and Dana Delany, and has been adapted for theater in England, France and Japan. 40 Things I Want To Tell You won a Saskatchewan Book Award for Young Adult Literature in 2013. The Worst Thing She Ever Did (Lost For Words in the U.S.) won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile/YA Crime Book in 2011.
I believe the perfect story is a dream." Zindel received the annual Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2002, recognizing his cumulative "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature". The jury cited five works said to be published 1968 to 1993: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds; My Darling, My Hamburger; and the Pigman trilogy (‡). The citation called The Pigman "one of the first authentic young adult novels" and the panel chair observed that "Paul Zindel knows and understands the reality young adults deal with day-to-day ... He has the ability to depict young adults in an honest and realistic way.
The Orphan's Tales is a fantasy series by Catherynne M. Valente with illustrations by Michael Kaluta. The two novels of the series, In the Night Garden (not to be confused with the BBC TV series of the same name) and In the Cities of Coin and Spice, are in turn split into two books apiece. While three of these four books begin with a story told by the same young woman, her stories branch out into other stories, often narrated by a completely different character. The series won the 2008 Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature, and In the Night Garden was nominated for both the 2006 James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the 2007 World Fantasy Award.
Shanower won Eisner Awards for Best Writer-Artist in 2001 and 2003, won a for Best Serialized Comic in 2006, and was nominated for the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist in 1999 for his work on Age of Bronze. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz miniseries written by Shanower, illustrated by Skottie Young, won two Eisners in 2010, for Best Limited Series or Story Arc and Best Publication for Kids. His short story "Happily Ever After" was part of How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity, an anthology of LGBTQ short stories for young adults published in 2009. The book was a Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature.
The Mythopoeic Awards for literature and literary studies are given by the Mythopoeic Society to authors of outstanding works in the fields of myth, fantasy, and the scholarly study of these areas. From 1971 to 1991 there were two awards, annual but not always awarded before 1981, recognizing Mythopoeic Fantasy and Mythopoeic Scholarship (Inklings Studies). Dual awards in each category were established in 1992: Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards for Adult Literature and Children's Literature; Scholarship Awards in Inklings Studies and Myth and Fantasy Studies. In 2010 a Student Paper Award was introduced for the best paper presented at Mythcon by an undergraduate or graduate student; it was renamed the Alexei Kondratiev Award several months after its creation.
The festival's programme is classified in its subsections Literatures of the World, Reflections, Specials, International Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Speak, Memory. The section Specials itself is subdivided into the New German Voices, the Slam Revue as well as Scritture Giovani, an international competition for young authors. Every year a Graphic Novel Day during the festival is organised. Since 2002, internationally renowned guest authors of the ilb have visited Berlin prisons, free of charge, for an afternoon or evening during the festival where they read from their books and discuss them with prisoners. Since 2005 there have been annual cooperations with the science year, an initiative by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
In July, 1993, Sassy published her first short story, Run Away, which was the inspiration for her first novel, Harley, Like a Person. Under the working title of "Zee," that effort was the recipient of the very first Sue Alexander Most Promising New Work Award given by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). Selected from manuscripts submitted for individual critique at the SCBWI Annual Conference in Los Angeles, the award is given to the manuscript deemed most promising for publication. Another in the list of "firsts," Bauer's winning entry was critiqued by Walter Dean Myers, the first-ever Michael L. Printz Award winner, a prize which recognizes excellence in young adult literature.
"To some extent, Yamanaka has replaced racism with sexism and homophobia, 'safer topics'", concluded Nation reviewer Mindy Pennybacker. However, Michael Porter, of the New York Times Book Review applauded Yamanaka's efforts, stating that "[she] delivers a precise look at this vibrant 'Japanese-American' culture yet still speaks to anyone who has experienced the joy, security and small humiliations of family life." Name Me Nobody was her fourth book geared towards adolescents. In illustrating the difficulties of young "teen hood" and the surrounding superficialities, the "'vignettes of young girlhood praised for their vivid images and expert distillation of language", related a Horn Book reviewer, "Yamanaka provides young adult literature with a fresh and welcome voice "noteworthy for its complexity and richness'.
As publishers began to focus on the emerging adolescent market, booksellers and libraries began creating young adult sections distinct from children's literature and 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, young adult literature began pushing the envelope in terms of the subject matter that was considered appropriate for their audience: Books dealing with topics such as rape, suicide, parental death, and murder which had previously been deemed taboo, saw significant critical and commercial success. A flip-side of this trend was a strong revived interest in the romance novel, including young adult romance.
The William C. Morris YA Debut Award is an annual award given to a work of young adult literature by a "first-time author writing for teens". It is administered by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). It was named for twentieth-century American publisher William C. Morris (born 1928 or 1929 and raised up in Eagle Pass, Texas, died Sept 28, 2003 in Manhattan), whom YALSA calls an innovator and "an influential innovator in the publishing world and an advocate for marketing books for children and young adults". The award is funded by the William C. Morris Endowment, established in 2000 and activated in 2003 with a bequest of $400,000 from the Morris estate.
Allan's next novel was the internationally acclaimed bestseller Chanda's Secrets, 2004. Set against the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, this adult/young adult crossover novel is being published and distributed to countries including the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Brazil, India, Japan, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the African francophonie. It has won the American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, the African Studies Association's Children's Africana Book Award for Best Book for the Older Reader, and a host of other best book awards, citations and nominations in Canada, the United States and Europe. In 2010, Chanda's Secrets was made into the award-winning film Life, Above All.
Fire from the Rock has been selected by the NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Committee as a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People for 2008 and is honored on the 2008 New York Public Library Best Books for the Teen Age. We Beat the Street is listed on the New York Times Bestseller List and is on VOYA's Non-Fiction Honor List for 2006 and is honored on the 2006 New York Public Library Best Books for the Teen Age. Copper Sun received the 2007 Coretta Scott King Award, was named as one of the Top Ten Historical Fiction Books for Youth by Booklist was nominated for the 2007 NAACP Image Award for Literature, and received the Ohioana Award for Young Adult Literature.
José Antonio Cotrina graduated with a degree in Advertising and Public Relations, but quickly found a passion for fantasy writing, in all its variations. He started publishing his works in the early 1990s, mostly short stories, and then wrote the novel The Lost Sources in 2003. This was the first of his novels set in the Between the Lines Universe. Since then, he oriented his writing toward young adult literature, with books such as The House on the Black Hill, the trilogy The Cycle of the Red Moon, The Secret Song of the World, and The End of Dreams (written with Gabriella Campbell.) He received various awards, such as the UPC Short Novel Award for Out of Phase, the Alberto Magno Fantasy Award, which he won on various occasions.
Two books won both the Young Adult Book Award and the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award: Shadow in Hawthorn Bay by Janet Lunn in 1987 and Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel in 2011. Six books won both the Young Adult Book Award and the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature, or Canada Council Children's Literature Prize before 1987. The writers and CLA award dates were Hughes 1983, Lunn 1987, (now under the present name) Wieler 1990, Johnston 1995, Wynne-Jones 1996, and Brooks 2003. Thus Shadow in Hawthorn Bay (Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1986) by Janet Lunn won three major Canadian awards, the CLA awards for both children's and young-adult literature and the Governor General's Award in its last year as the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize.
March: Book Two was released in 2015 and immediately became both a New York Times and Washington Post bestseller for graphic novels. The release of March: Book Three in August 2016 brought all three volumes into the top 3 slots of the New York Times bestseller list for graphic novels for 6 consecutive weeks. The third volume was announced as the recipient of the 2017 Printz Award for excellence in young-adult literature, the Coretta Scott King Award, the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, the 2016 National Book Award in Young People's Literature, and the Sibert Medal at the American Library Association's annual Midwinter Meeting in January 2017. The March trilogy received the Carter G. Woodson Book Award in the Secondary (grades 7–12) category in 2017.
The Cybils Awards, or Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards, are a set of annual book awards given by people who blog about children's and young-adult books. Co-founded by Kelly Herold and Anne Boles Levy in 2006, the awards were created to address an apparent gap between perceived as too elitist and other awards that did not seem selective enough. Books are nominated by the public in ten genres of children's and young adult literature: Book Apps, Easy Readers & Short Chapter Books, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fiction Picture Books, Graphic Novels, Middle Grade Novels, Non- Fiction Middle Grade/Young Adult Books, Non-Fiction Picture Books, Poetry, and Young Adult Novels. Nominees go through two rounds of panel-based judging before a winner is announced in each category.
Her Victorian mystery novel, Felicity Carrol and the Perilous Pursuit, is the first of a series and has received favorable reviews from the Historical Novel Society, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and the New York Journal of Books. Her courtroom drama, Verdict in the Desert, was included in Amazon's Latino Best Seller List and the 2016 Latina Book Club Books of the Year, and was favorably reviewed by Kirkus Reviews. Also in 2016, she was featured as Author of the Month on Houston Public Media. Her short story collection, Red Ridin' in the Hood and Other Cuentos, received the Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award, an Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature (Commended Title), and recommendations from Publishers Weekly, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.
Nikakis was raised in the central Victorian town of Mansfield, surrounded by the mountains of the Victorian Alps. Her interest in fantasy occurred at age 19, when she read Tolkien's fantasy epic Lord of the Rings. She has since written a number of published academic essays on myth and fantasy writing. She has worked as a secondary teacher, TAFE teacher and lecturer in business communications at Deakin University. She completed a Master in Education in young adult literature with her thesis being on The Purpose of Dragons in Selected Children’s Literature in the Twentieth Century and went on to complete a Ph.D in 1997 in fantasy fiction from Victoria University with her thesis on The Use of Narrative in Order to Break the Masculine Domination of the Hero Quest.
New adult literature touches upon many themes and issues to reach the readership that falls in between the categories of young adult and adult fiction. Many themes covered in young adult fiction such as identity, sexuality, depression, suicide, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, familial struggles, bullyingyoung adult fiction are also covered in new adult fiction, but the various issues that are dealt with in the category hold it separate. Some common examples of issues include first jobs, starting college, wedding engagements and marriage, starting new families, friendships post-high school, military enlistment, financial independence, living away from home for the first time, empowerment, loss of innocence, and fear of failure. This category focuses heavily on life after an individual has become of legal age, and how one deals with the new beginnings of adulthood.
Shortly afterwards The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 began and George's family were keen observers as his father was gone from the home nearly every night treating the sick for months, many of whom were housed in tents, coming home only to eat or for a change of clothes before heading out again. George was enrolled in the Tilden Elementary School in 1918 by then and, an insatiable reader, was no longer interested in juvenile books so his father obtained special permission for George to read adult literature, after which he haunted the libraries, reading a book a day. He quickly established himself as able to absorb and remember any book as fast as he could turn the pages. He graduated from Tilden in 1919 and enrolled in Central High School.
Her powerful realistic young adult literature includes Butterflies, The Cave and That's Why I Wrote This Song which is a collaborative work with her teenage daughter Tory who wrote and sings the songs that are part of the book and downloadable from her website. Gervay is widely published in literary journals and anthologies. She is included in an anthology together with Sir Salman Rushdie, David Malouf, Thomas Keneally, entitled Fear Factor Terror Incognito, edited by Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle. Gervay is head of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Australia East and New Zealand, former chair of the board of the New South Wales Writers' Centre, writer and ambassador of Room to Read, role model for Books in Homes, and patron of MonkeyBaa Theatre.
Christopher Schmidt notes that, while the world goes to waste for future generations, people distract themselves from disaster by passively watching it as entertainment. In the 2010s, there was a surge of popular dystopian young adult literature and blockbuster films. Some have commented on this trend, saying that "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism". Cultural theorist and critic Mark Fisher identified the phrase as encompassing the theory of capitalist realism ‐ the perceived "widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it" - and used the above quote as the title to the opening chapter of his book, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?.
The "young adult" class of books developed in library collections and publisher promotions, and young adult literature became a "respected field of study", in the second half of the twentieth century. When School Library Journal initiated the award for YA writers, the ALA awards program recognized the YA class only by annual lists of recommended books, the Best Books for Young Adults and a list "for the reluctant YA reader". (Indeed, the Printz Award for the year's best book was established only in 1999.) Chief editor Lillian N. Gerhardt determined that SLJ should merely sponsor the award and recruited the ALA Young Adult Services Division to administer it. The official name of the award approved in 1986 was unusually long even with initialisms, "The SLJ Young Adult Author Award/Selected and Administered by the ALA's YASD".
Duncan is credited by many critics and journalists as a pioneering figure of young adult fiction, particularly the teen suspense and horror genres, and has been dubbed the "queen of teen thrillers." As noted by Emily Langer of The Washington Post, Duncan often "plucked her characters from normalcy and placed them in extraordinary, often dark circumstances," in contrast to her contemporaries such as Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume and Robert Cormier. The ALA Margaret A. Edwards Award recognizes one writer and a particular body of work for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature". Duncan won the annual award in 1992 and the Young Adult Librarians now name six books published from 1966 to 1987, the autobiographical Chapters and five novels: Ransom, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Summer of Fear, Killing Mr. Griffin, and The Twisted Window.
Kerr has been publishing short fiction since 1987 and attended the Clarion Workshop in 1988; her stories have been published in Tales of the Unanticipated, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and several anthologies. Kerr's first novel Emerald House Rising was published in 1997 by Warner Aspect, and received praise for the degree of care and detail with which it treated the subjects of jewelry crafting and gemcutting, as well as the unusual sociology she constructed around them. Her second novel The Wild Swans, based in part on Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale The Wild Swans, was published in 1999. It was praised by many notable figures in the genre, including Lois McMaster Bujold and Jane Yolen, and was nominated for a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature as well.
The work is much longer than Tolkien's ideal proposed in his essay On Fairy-Stories. Many fairy tale motifs, such as the repetition of similar events seen in the dwarves' arrival at Bilbo's and Beorn's homes, and folklore themes, such as trolls turning to stone, are to be found in the story. The book is popularly called (and often marketed as) a fantasy novel, but like Peter Pan and Wendy by J. M. Barrie and The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, both of which influenced Tolkien and contain fantasy elements, it is primarily identified as being children's literature. The two genres are not mutually exclusive, so some definitions of high fantasy include works for children by authors such as L. Frank Baum and Lloyd Alexander alongside the works of Gene Wolfe and Jonathan Swift, which are more often considered adult literature.
After leaving the publisher, he promised himself never to work for a company again. He decided to try his luck with the young adult novel Un haiku per l'Alícia (A Haiku for Alice), for which he was awarded the 2001/02 Gran Angular prize. Since then he has been making a living mainly as a writer, but also as a literary consultant for several publishers and an agency. Other young-adult literature he has published are El Quinto Mago (The Fifth Wizard), with a backdrop of fine magic, Alison Blix, El Cuaderno de Aroha (Aroha's Notebook), as well as Retrum, a young-adult novel that has been translated into eight languages and which is linked to his later trilogy called Øbliviøn by the presence of the Gothic-inspired urban tribe known as Los Pálidos (The Pale Beings).
The novel was framed as part of a report sent to the Ekumen by the protagonist Genly Ai after his time on the planet Gethen, thus suggesting that Ai was selecting and ordering the material, consisting of personal narration, diary extracts, Gethenian myths, and ethnological reports. Earthsea also employed an unconventional narrative form described by scholar Mike Cadden as "free indirect discourse", in which the feelings of the protagonist are not directly separated from the narration, making the narrator seem sympathetic to the characters, and removing the skepticism towards a character's thoughts and emotions that are a feature of more direct narration. Cadden suggests that this method leads to younger readers sympathizing directly with the characters, making it an effective technique for young-adult literature. A number of Le Guin's writings, including the Earthsea series, challenged the conventions of epic fantasies and myths.
Selman has examined the relationship between the promotion of children's social awareness and of their literacy skills through child and young adult literature, both in the elementary grades, as described in his 2003 book, The Promotion of Social Awareness (awarded best book by moral education division of the American Educational Research Association), and in history, social studies, and literature courses in middle and high school. Scholars have drawn from Selman's inquiry into the promotion of youth civic engagement and the understanding of bullying (and bystanding) behaviors in adolescence to inform their own understandings of youth development. Selman is the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships to Iceland, and was a Scholar in Residence at the Russell Sage Foundation in 1999-2000. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Educational Research Association.
" The company has since developed and broadened its remit, publishing a range of titles, both fiction and non-fiction, that reflect the culture and literary heritage of the region, and has published winners of the Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature."Burt Award winners to be published by Papillote Press", Bocas News, Bocas Lit Fest, 27 November 2017. Notable authors include Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Lisa Allen-Agostini,Ramlochan, Shivanee, "Home Home – Lisa Allen-Agostini", Paper Based Bookshop, 25 August 2018. Trish Cooke, Jane Ulysses Grell, Lennox Honychurch, Stephenson Hyacinth, Diana McCaulay,"Papillote Press to publish Burt Award winner" Gone To Drift by Diana McCaulay", Bocas News, Bocas Lit Fest, 13 October 2015. Kathy MacLean, Philip Nanton, Elma Napier, Viviana Prado-Núñez,Ramlochan, Shivanee, "The Art of White Roses – Viviana Prado-Núñez", Paper Based Bookshop, 11 August 2018.
Furthermore, the practice of splitting the finale of a film series into two back-to-back films began with the success of Deathly Hallows, and it would soon be replicated by The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Parts 1 and 2, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Parts 1 and 2. The films are also credited with signalling the popularity of films based on children's and young adult literature in the 2000s and 2010s, correlating with the book series' own literary influence. Costance Grady and Aja Romano, commenting on the whole Harry Potter franchise's legacy for Vox in light of its 20th anniversary, wrote that youth-targeted literature has since become "a go-to well of ideas for Hollywood," pointing to the successes of The Twilight Saga and The Hunger Games. The series has spawned a vast volume of fan fiction, with nearly 600,000 inspired stories catalogued, and an Italian fan film, Voldemort: Origins of the Heir, which received over twelve million views in ten days on YouTube.
In 2004, A Northern Light won the Carnegie Medal for children's and young-adult books published in Britain \- where it was entitled A Gathering Light and may have been her first work published in the U.K. In the U.S., it won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for young-adult literature and was a runner-up for the Printz Award from the American Library Association (ALA), recognizing the year's best book for young adults. In 2015, Time Magazine named A Northern Light one of the best YA books of all time. Her second young-adult novel, Revolution, is a tale of two teenage girls - one in present-day Brooklyn, and one in Paris during the French Revolution - whose stories interweave as they struggle to make sense of the tragedies they encounter. The book was published in October, 2010 by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House, with a first run of 250,000 copies.
Fatima Shaik photo by Sophia Little Fatima Shaik is an American writer of children’s and adult literature, and former daily journalist. Her literature explores the human spirit and the intersection of cultures, notably themes of family, community, and justice. Publishers Weekly described her as “knowledgeable and perceptive.” Her work across genres reflects her career as a journalist and fiction writer to use a variety of literary forms in order to explore contemporary social issues, especially that of the "African-American experience." Shaik’s continuing research on the Société d’Economie, the founders of the jazz incubator Economy Hall, has received support from the Louisiana Endowment of the Humanities and the Kittredge Fund. She is the subject of an upcoming film by director Kavery Kaul who takes the author to her paternal grandfather’s birthplace in Kolkata. Shaik is included in A Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans and the Encyclopedia of African American Writers among others.
Sánchez was born in 1957 in Mexico City, to parents of German and Cuban heritage; his family emigrated to the U.S. in 1962. He studied writing at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, under Michael Cunningham, Richard McCann, Allan Gurganus, Peter Ho Davies, Michael Klein, Elizabeth McCracken, and Jacqueline Woodson. Sánchez's works explore themes of love, friendship, coming of age, and LGBT questioning youth. His first novel, Rainbow Boys (2001), was selected by the American Library Association, as a Best Book for Young Adults. With the novel's debut, Publishers Weekly (PW) Magazine deemed Sanchez a “Flying Start”. Two sequels, Rainbow High (2003) and Rainbow Road (2005), complete the Rainbow trilogy, portraying the coming of age of three gay and bisexual teenage boys. Both novels were honored as “Books for the Teen Age” by the New York Public Library. Sánchez's novel So Hard to Say (2004), about a group of 13-year-olds, won the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult literature.
The form of narrative employed by Le Guin in the Earthsea trilogy has been described by literature scholar Mike Cadden as "free indirect discourse"; a technique in which the feelings of the protagonist are not directly separated from the narration, making the narrator seem sympathetic to the characters, and removing the skepticism towards a character's thoughts and emotions that are a feature of more direct narration. Cadden suggests that this method leads to younger readers sympathizing directly with the characters, thereby making it an effective technique for young-adult literature, whereas adults are likely to read the situations differently. In The Tombs of Atuan, much of the story is told from Tenar's perspective; for instance, the reader sees Tenar's fear of the undertomb through her own eyes, creating an empathy for her. Scholars have compared The Tombs of Atuan to The Beginning Place, another of Le Guin's fantasy works; both stories have a female protagonist guiding a blundering male through a labyrinth of sorts.
Two books have won the CLA Young Adult Book Award as well as the Book of the Year for Children: Shadow in Hawthorn Bay by Janet Lunn, in 1987, and Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel, in 2011. Nine books named CLA Book of the Year for Children have also won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature, or the preceding Canada Council Children's Literature Prize, or earlier Governor General's Award for juvenile fiction (in all, conferred for English-language books from 1949 to 1958 and 1975 to present). The writers and CLA award dates were Richard S. Lambert 1950, Farley Mowat 1958, Kevin Major 1979, Cora Taylor 1986, Janet Lunn 1987, Michael Bedard 1991, Tim Wynne-Jones 1994, Pamela Porter 2006, Susin Nielsen 2013. Thus Shadow in Hawthorn Bay (Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1986) by Janet Lunn won three major Canadian awards, the CLA awards for both children's and young-adult literature and the Governor General's Award in its last year as the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize.
In 2006 he co-founded C&R; PressC&R; Press (with fellow writer Chad PrevostChad Prevost), a non-profit literary organization that publishes early career poets and offers free community writing workshops throughout the Southeastern US. He currently works as a freelance writer, writing coach, and script doctor in Sarasota, Florida; he is also a professor of liberal arts at Ringling College of Art + Design and a contributing writer for Sarasota Scene MagazineScene Magazine and The Writer.The Writer In 2010, he published Unplugged: My Journey into the Dark World of Video Game Addiction, which was the first memoir on video game addiction; subsequently he became a popular speaker on digital media addiction and recovery at schools, conferences, and corporate events. After learning that a chair he sat in at Northern Illinois University had bullet holes in it after Steven Kazmierczak's school shooting on February 14, 2008, Van Cleave wrote a young adult book about gun violence in schools called Unlocked. This book received a Gold Medal in Young Adult Literature from the Florida Book Awards and was named a Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers by the American Library Association.

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