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Flowers for Algernon, short story and novel by Daniel Keyes (short story 1959, novel 1966) To Kill a Mockingbird, novel by Harper Lee (1960) Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls (1961) A Clockwork Orange, a novel by Anthony Burgess (1962) The Learning Tree, novel by Gordon Parks (1963) The Graduate, novel by Charles Webb (1963)
Daly is a teen writing for teens and her work influenced other writers to write specifically with the young adult audience in mind. Dwight Burton claims that, because Daly was so near adolescence herself, "Seventeenth Summer captures better than any other novel, the spirit of adolescents." [3] The book was controversial for its time.
Whitney Joiner of Salon.com wrote, "The Diary of a Teenage Girl is one of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender and beautiful portrayals of growing up in America.” [3] Michael Martin of nerve.com described the book as “the most honest depiction of sexuality in a long, long time; as a meditation on adolescence, it picks up a literary ball that’s been only fitfully carried after ...
Unwind is a dystopian novel by Neal Shusterman.It takes place in the United States in the near future. After the Second Civil War ("The Heartland War") was fought over abortion, a compromise was reached, allowing parents to sign an order for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 to be "unwound" — taken to "harvest camps" and dissected into their body parts for later use.
Kyle Kingsbury (a.k.a."Adrian") is the son of Manhattan's news anchor, Rob Kingsbury.He is tall, blonde, rich, and handsome. He is the most popular guy in school and dates the hottest girls; however, starts the book as a shallow and lonely bully, feeling abandoned by his father and regularly dishing out cruelty to people less well off than himself.
It depicts the story of a seventeen-year-old African American boy named Andrew "Andy" Jackson, who feels deeply guilty for inadvertently causing his best friend Robert "Rob" Washington's death through drunk driving. The story is told through multiple different formats such as journal entries, first person narratives, and newspaper articles.
The school story is a fiction genre centring on older pre-adolescent and adolescent school life, at its most popular in the first half of the twentieth century. While examples do exist in other countries, it is most commonly set in English boarding schools and mostly written in girls' and boys' subgenres, reflecting the single-sex education ...
Fifteen is a juvenile fiction novel written by Beverly Cleary.It was first published in 1956. [1] It chronicles the perspective of a teenage girl entering her first romantic relationship. [2]