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The American Library Association's (ALA) Best Fiction for Young Adults, previously known as Best Books for Young Adults (1966–2010), is a recommendation list of books presented yearly by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) division. It is for "fiction titles published for young adults in the past 16 months that are ...
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). Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) wrote The Black Moth when she was 17 and received a publishing contract when she was 18 ...
English language young adult fiction and children's literature in general have historically shown a lack of books with a main character who is a person of color, LGBT, or disabled. [115] In the UK 90% of the best-selling YA titles from 2006 to 2016 featured white, able-bodied, cis-gendered, and heterosexual main characters. [ 116 ]
This is a list of notable writers whose readership is predominantly teenagers or young adults, or adult fiction writers who have published significant works intended for teens/young adults. Examples of the author's more notable works are given here.
The Saddle Club (books) Samurai Girl (book series) The Secret Series; Servants of the Empire; Seven Deadly Sins (novel series) Shades series; The Shadowhunter Chronicles; Shattered Sea; The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants; Sisters of Isis; Skin Books trilogy; The Softwire; Son of Angels; Sons of the Dark; Sorority Sisters (novel series ...
Early books, like the junior novels, had little sex, although that gradually changed over the years. The romance series for teens in the 1980s was modeled on adult romances with "more innocent" storylines. [2] These books were generally told from the point-of-view of a 15–16-year-old girl experiencing her first love. [9]
The Boston Globe/The Horn Book Magazine: 1967 Given annually in the categories Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. The latter two awards may be either children’s or young adult works. National Book Award: National Book Foundation: 1996 National Book Awards are given in five categories, one of them Young People's Literature ...
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