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Alex and Brett Harris wrote the best-selling book Do Hard Things (2008), a non-fiction book challenging teenagers to "rebel against low expectations", at age 19. Two years later came a follow-up book called Start Here (2010).
The YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, established in 2010, is an annual literary award presented by the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association that "honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults (ages 12-18)". [1] It was first given in 2010. [2] The award is announced at ALA's Midwinter ...
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them is a non-fiction 1999 book written by The Freedom Writers, a group of students from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, and their teacher Erin Gruwell.
Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human is a 2021 non-fiction graphic novel written and illustrated by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan. The book is an illustrated guide to sex education that is oriented towards teenagers.
Its themes were especially relevant to teenagers, underaged drinking, driving, dating, and angst. [10] Another early example is the Heinlein juveniles, which were science fiction novels written by Robert A. Heinlein for Scribner's young-adult line, beginning with Rocket Ship Galileo in 1947.
In film, coming-of-age is a genre of teen films. Coming-of-age films focus on the psychological and moral growth or transition of a protagonist from youth to adulthood. A variant in the 2020s is the "delayed-coming-of-age film, a kind of story that acknowledges the deferred nature of 21st-century adulthood", in which young adults may still be exploring short-term relationships, living ...
iGen [a] is a 2017 nonfiction book by Jean Twenge that studies the lifestyles, habits and values of Americans born 1995–2012, [1] the first generation to reach adolescence after smartphones became widespread. Twenge refers to this generation as the "iGeneration" (also known as Generation Z). Although she argues there are some positive trends ...
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2022 [8] J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize in 2022 [9] Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2022 [10] [11] Gotham Book Prize in 2022 [12] [13] Finalist for Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest [14] [15] One of the Barack Obama's Favorite Book of the Year 2021 [16] [17]