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Each teen novel dealt with common high school drama and romance themes, including first dates, first love, and conflicts. It was through these books that the major teen book series Sweet Valley High was launched. Cover designs used photographs of models similar to each novel's heroine's description. The cover of The Last Word featured Courteney ...
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]
Girls in Love is the first book in the Girls series, written by Dame Jacqueline Wilson, DBE, a noted English author who writes fiction for children and young teenagers. It was first published in 1997. The other books in the series are Girls under Pressure (1998), Girls out Late (1999), and Girls in Tears (2002).
Books that readers aged 12 to 20 chose independently; Literature written for young people aged 11 to 18 and books marked as "young adult" by a publisher; Literature including a teenager who is the main character and, as the center of the plot, engages in problems related to and relatable to the lives of teenagers
James Moloney: The Book of Lies, Master of the Books; Patrick Moore: Scott Saunders Space Adventure series; Perry Moore: Hero; Kass Morgan: The 100; Lorin Morgan-Richards: A Boy Born from Mold and Other Delectable Morsels, The Goodbye Family; Jaclyn Moriarty: The Year of Secret Assignments, Feeling Sorry for Celia, The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie
It was a New York Times Bestseller, a Parents Choice Gold Award Winner, an ALA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults Award winner, [1] and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A followup entitled Love, Stargirl , [ 5 ] was released on August 14, 2007.
Love, Stargirl is a 2007 young adult novel by Jerry Spinelli. [ 1 ] The book is the sequel to the New York Times bestselling book Stargirl and centers on "the world's longest letter" in diary form.
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 ...