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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. [1] There is a category for children's books, books appealing to middle grade readers and for young adult literature.
Adib Khorram (born 12 April, 1984) is an Iranian-American author who mainly writes young adult fiction. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is most well known for his books Darius the Great is Not Okay , Darius the Great Deserves Better , and Kiss & Tell .
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 ...
This is a list of notable books by young authors and of books written by notable writers in their early years. These books were written, or substantially completed, before the author's twentieth birthday. Alexandra Adornetto (born 18 April 1994) wrote her debut novel, The Shadow Thief, when she was 13. It was published in 2007.
Niven's first young adult novel, All the Bright Places was released in 2015. The narrative follows two teenagers, Violet and Finch who are struggling with mental health issues. [ 8 ] It won a 2015 Goodreads choice award for Best Young Adult Fiction [ 9 ] and was longlisted for the 2015 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize . [ 10 ]
Nicola Yoon / ˈ n ɪ k ə l ə / (born 1972) [1] is a Jamaican-American author. She is best known for writing the 2015 young adult novel Everything, Everything, a New York Times best seller and the basis of a 2017 film of the same name. In 2016, she released The Sun Is Also a Star, a novel that was adapted to a 2019 film of the same name.
Dhonielle Clayton (born 1983) is an American author and chief operating officer of We Need Diverse Books. She has written multiple book series, including The Belles (2018-2023). She also collaborated with Tiffany D. Jackson , Angie Thomas , Nic Stone , Ashley Woodfolk , and Nicola Yoon to write Blackout (2021).
The statistics gathered by the CCBC and various other independent researchers show that the market does not reflect the diversity of the U.S. [8] In 2013, less than 9 percent of best-selling novels featured characters with disabilities. [15] In 2014 and 2015, found that 85 percent of all children's and young adult books feature white characters.