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This category is for stub articles relating to young adult novels first published between 1970 and 1979. You can help by expanding them. You can help by expanding them. To add an article to this category, use {{ 1970s-ya-novel-stub }} instead of {{ stub }} .
Awarded annually to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults. [1] Andre Norton Award: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) 2006 Awarded annually for the best young adult science fiction or fantasy book published in the United States. [2] Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature: APALA: 2010
Author and academic Michael Cart states that the term young adult literature "first found common usage in the late 1960's, in reference to realistic fiction that was set in the real (as opposed to imagined), contemporary world and addressed problems, issues, and life circumstances of interest to young readers aged approximately 12–18".
The Kevin and Sadie series is a 1970s set of young adult novels by Scottish novelist Joan Lingard. The books, set in Northern Ireland and England against the backdrop of the Northern Ireland conflict, deal with a young couple; Sadie Jackson, who is from the Ulster Protestant community, and Kevin McCoy, who is from the Irish Catholic community ...
When You Reach Me is classified in the science fiction and mystery genres, but includes features of some other genres. Monica Edinger of The New York Times found When You Reach Me to be "a hybrid of genres, it is a complex mystery, a work of historical fiction, a school story and one of friendship, with a leitmotif of time travel running ...
Then Again, Maybe I Won't is a young adult novel written by Judy Blume. Intended for pre-teens and teenagers, the novel deals with puberty from a 1970s male perspective as well as the other trials of growing up.
Young adult books may be marketed toward people ages 12 to 18, but that doesn’t mean these reads are limited only to teens. Of those who buy YA books, 55% are over 18 years old, ...
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