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His first few novels were written for adults and were all rejected. His fifth novel was also intended for adults but became his first children's book. This work, Space Station Seventh Grade, was published in 1982. [5] Spinelli graduated from Gettysburg College in 1963 and acquired his MA from Johns Hopkins University in 1964.
Roth wrote her first book, Divergent, while on winter break in her senior year at Northwestern University, and found an agent by the following March. [4] [9] [11] Her career took off rapidly with the novel's success; the publishing rights sold before she graduated from college in 2010 and the film rights sold mid-March 2011, before the novel was printed in April 2011.
Book Author(s) Country Notes Ref. 1964 Manfred Steiner Martian Time-Slip: Philip K. Dick USA [146] 1996 Seth Garin The Regulators: Stephen King (under the pen name Richard Bachman) USA [147] 1996 Simon Lynch Simple Simon: Ryne Douglas Pearson USA: Adapted into the film Mercury Rising (1998). [148] [149] 2000 Marty Zellerbach The Hades Factor
Edison Price Vizzini (April 4, 1981 – December 19, 2013) was an American writer. [1] He was the author of four books for young adults, including It's Kind of a Funny Story (2006), which NPR placed at #56 in its list of the "100 Best-Ever Teen Novels" [2] and which is the basis of the film of the same name.
Ursula Vernon (born May 28, 1977) is an American freelance writer, artist and illustrator. She has won numerous awards for her work in various mediums, including Hugo Awards for her graphic novel Digger, fantasy novel Nettle & Bone, and fantasy novella Thornhedge, the Nebula Award for her short story "Jackalope Wives", and Mythopoeic Awards for adult and children's literature.
His third adult novel, The Possession of Mr Cave, deals with an obsessive father desperately trying to keep his teenage daughter safe. His children's novel, Shadow Forest, is a fantasy that begins with the horrific death of the protagonists' parents. It won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize in 2007. [6]
For generations, adults have responded to neurodivergent children’s behaviors by ignoring them or punishing them, in an effort to stop behaviors they perceive as stubborn, defiant and disruptive.
Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way.