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In the first book of the series, Adam becomes deaf in his left ear due to abuse. [15] 2012 Hazel Grace Lancaster, Augustus Waters, and several other characters The Fault in our Stars: John Green: The book is about characters with several types of cancer and resulting disabilities including a blind character and one with a prosthetic leg ...
The book was children's book of the week in The Times and The Sunday Times, [6] [7] and won both the Overall and Younger Fiction prizes at the 2021 Waterstones Children's Book Prize. [8] It also won the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story, voted for by children. [9] McNicoll was nominated for the Branford Boase Award [10] and the Carnegie Medal.
Character(s) Book Author(s) Country Notes Ref. 1964 Manfred Steiner Martian Time-Slip: Philip K. Dick USA [146] 1996 Seth Garin The Regulators: Stephen King (under the pen name Richard Bachman) USA [147] 1996 Simon Lynch Simple Simon: Ryne Douglas Pearson USA: Adapted into the film Mercury Rising (1998). [148] [149] 2000 Marty Zellerbach The ...
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, according to a ...
Trueman Bradley is a fictional character in a series of detective novels written by Alexei Maxim Russell. Bradley is characterized as a genius detective with Asperger syndrome. [1] He first appeared in the book Trueman Bradley – Aspie Detective, a novel written by Alexei Maxim Russell and published in 2011 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Scythe is a 2016 young adult novel by Neal Shusterman and is the first in the Arc of a Scythe series. It is set in the far future, where death, disease, and unhappiness have been virtually eliminated thanks to advances in technology, and a benevolent artificial intelligence known as the Thunderhead peacefully governs a united Earth.
Wells' first book, Little Altars Everywhere, (1992) recounts the multi-layered saga of the turbulent Walker family in Thornton, Louisiana, from the 1960s to the present and introduces the characters Siddalee Walker, her mother Viviane, and her mother's best friends, the Ya-Yas, whose stories continue in Wells' other books.
In The New York Times Book Review, Jennifer Senior wrote that the book was "beautifully told, humanizing, important"; [4] The Boston Globe called it "as emotionally resonant as any [book] this year"; [5] and in Science, the cognitive neuroscientist Francesca Happé wrote, "It is a beautifully written and thoughtfully crafted book, a historical tour of autism, richly populated with fascinating ...