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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 [148] 1996 Seth Garin The Regulators: Stephen King (under the pen name Richard Bachman) USA [149] 1996 Simon Lynch Simple Simon: Ryne Douglas Pearson USA: Adapted into the film Mercury Rising (1998). [150] [151] 2000 Marty Zellerbach The ...
The book was generally well-received, including starred reviews from Booklist, [3] Publishers Weekly, [4] and School Library Journal. [5]Booklist 's Kaitlin Connor noted, "Felix's hard-fought and dramatic journey toward self-discovery will resonate with teens looking for narratives about diverse LGBTQIA characters learning to love themselves."
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.
In 2014 and 2015, found that 85 percent of all children's and young adult books feature white characters. This statistic has remained fairly stagnant since the 1960s. [16] In 2017, a 20-year analysis of National Book Award winners between 1996 and 2015 found that only five of the novels were written by non-white authors. [10]
The Adoration of Jenna Fox was first published on April 1, 2008, by Henry Holt and Company, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers.It received generally positive reviews and won numerous awards, including the Golden Kite Honor Award and the Kirkus Best Young Adult Book award. [1]
Illuminae is a 2015 young adult [1] space opera epistolary novel written by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. This is the first novel of the three-book series The Illuminae Files . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The story is told through a series of documents; including classified reports, censored emails, camera transcriptions, and interviews, all of which were ...
Kylie spoke about the novel, saying "The fans seem to love it. That’s why we did it, [the characters]' names are Lexi and Livia. I think we wanted to make Lex more like me and Livia more like Kendall, and they kind of evolved into their own characters." [2] Main characters Lex and Livia Cosmo — are the twin daughters of Arnaud Cosmos and ...