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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 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.
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.
Professor Ian Davidson and colleagues analyzed the depiction of disabled characters in a collection of 19th children's literature from the Toronto Public Library. [5] The researchers found certain common characteristics of disability representation in 19th-century children's literature: disabled characters rarely appeared as individuals, but are usually depicted as impersonal groups and ...
Customer reviews on Amazon give the book rating average of 1.7 out of 5 stars. [4] Customer reviews on Google Play give it an average of 4.1/5 based on 303 reviews. [5] Publishers Weekly gave a positive review: "Details about the two worlds the girls inhabit are creative, though the plot that emerges after they meet is rather predictable. Even ...
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] A review in Kirkus Reviews compared the novel to Eva by Peter ...
Bella Ramsey has said being neurodivergent “massively” feeds into their acting process, in a new interview.. The 20-year-old, best known for playing the role of Ellie on the hit HBO show The ...
Young adult fiction and children's literature in general have historically shown a lack of diversity, that is, a lack of books with a main character who is, for example, a person of color, from the LGBTQIA+ community, or disabled. The numbers of children's book authors have shown a similar lack of diversity. [1]