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Young adult literature

Index Young adult literature

Young adult literature (YA) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as friendship, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality. [1]

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  1. 205 relations: A Wizard of Earthsea, A Wrinkle in Time, Adolescent sexuality, Alan Garner, Alex Awards, Alex Rider, Alice Liddell, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Amelia (novel), American Born Chinese (graphic novel), American Library Association, Anthony Horowitz, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret., Ballad, Beatrice Sparks, Bildungsroman, Birth control, Bless the Beasts and Children (novel), Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, British Library, Carnegie Medal (literary award), Cassandra Clare, Catholic Church, Centuries of Childhood, Chapbook, Charles Dickens, Charles Scribner's Sons, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, Children's literature, Children's literature periodicals, Chivalric romance, Chris Crowe (author), Christian novel, Christianity Today, Classic book, Crank (novel), Cultural appropriation, Curriculum, Cyberpunk, Daniel Defoe, Date rape, Death, Deathwatch (novel), Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Didacticism, Disability, Drug, E. Nesbit, Earthsea, Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile, ... Expand index (155 more) »

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A Wizard of Earthsea

A Wizard of Earthsea is a fantasy novel written by American author Ursula K. Le Guin and first published by the small press Parnassus in 1968.

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A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult science fantasy novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle.

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Adolescent sexuality

Adolescent sexuality is a stage of human development in which adolescents experience and explore sexual feelings.

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Alan Garner

Alan Garner (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales.

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Alex Awards

The Alex Awards annually recognize "ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults ages 12 through 18".

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Alex Rider

Alex Rider is a series of spy novels by the English author Anthony Horowitz.

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Alice Liddell

Alice Pleasance Hargreaves (née Liddell,; 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934) was an English woman who, in her childhood, was an acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.

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Amelia (novel)

Amelia is a sentimental novel written by Henry Fielding and published in December 1751.

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American Born Chinese (graphic novel)

American Born Chinese is a graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang.

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American Library Association

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.

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Anthony Horowitz

Anthony John Horowitz (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense.

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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. is a middle-grade novel by American writer Judy Blume, published in 1970.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Beatrice Sparks

Beatrice Ruby Mathews Sparks (January 15, 1917 – May 25, 2012) was a Mormon youth counselor, author, and serial hoaxer, known primarily for producing books purporting to be the "real diaries" of troubled teenagers.

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Bildungsroman

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (plural Bildungsromane) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change is important.

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Birth control

Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent unintended pregnancy.

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Bless the Beasts and Children (novel)

Bless the Beasts and Children is a 1970 novel by Glendon Swarthout that tells the story of several emotionally disturbed boys away at summer camp who unite to stop a buffalo hunt.

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Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are a set of American literary awards conferred by The Boston Globe and The Horn Book Magazine annually from 1967.

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

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Carnegie Medal (literary award)

The Carnegie Medal for Writing, established in 1936, is a British literary award that annually recognises one outstanding new English-language book for children or young adults.

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Cassandra Clare

Judith Lewis (née Rumelt; born July 27, 1973), better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare, is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling series ''The Mortal Instruments''.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Centuries of Childhood

Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life (French: L'enfant et la vie familiale sous l'ancien régime; English: lit. "The Child and Family Life in the Ancien Régime) is a 1960 book on the history of childhood by French historian Philippe Ariès known in English by its 1962 translation.

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Chapbook

A chapbook is a type of small printed booklet that was popular medium for street literature throughout early modern Europe.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.

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Charles Scribner's Sons

Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton.

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Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP, pronounced) is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in the United Kingdom.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Young adult literature and Children's literature are fiction by genre.

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Children's literature periodicals

Children's literature periodicals include magazines about children's literature intended for adults, such as.

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Chivalric romance

As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern Europe. Young adult literature and chivalric romance are fiction by genre.

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Chris Crowe (author)

Christopher Everett Crowe (born c. 1954 in Danville, Illinois) is an American professor of English and English education at Brigham Young University (BYU) specializing in young adult literature.

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Christian novel

A Christian novel is a Christian literary novel which features Christian media genre conventions.

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Christianity Today

Christianity Today is an evangelical Christian media magazine founded in 1956 by Billy Graham.

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Classic book

A classic is a book accepted as being exemplary or particularly noteworthy.

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Crank (novel)

Crank is a novel by Ellen Hopkins published in 2004.

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Cultural appropriation

Cultural appropriation is the inappropriate or unacknowledged adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity.

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Curriculum

In education, a curriculum (curriculums or curricula) is the totality of student experiences that occur in an educational process.

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Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting said to focus on a combination of "low-life and high tech".

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (born Daniel Foe; 1660 – 24 April 1731) was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy.

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Date rape

Date rape is a form of acquaintance rape and dating violence.

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Death

Death is the end of life; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.

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Deathwatch (novel)

Deathwatch is an American 1972 novel written by Robb White.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is an American children's book series and media franchise created by American author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney.

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Didacticism

Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature, art, and design.

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Disability

Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society.

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Drug

A drug is any chemical substance other than a nutrient or an essential dietary ingredient, which, when administered to a living organism, produces a biological effect.

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E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children as E. Nesbit.

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Earthsea

The Earthsea Cycle, also known as Earthsea, is a series of high fantasy books written by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America.

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Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Louise Hopkins (born March 26, 1955) is a novelist who has published several New York Times bestselling novels that are popular among the teenage and young adult audience.

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English Journal

English Journal (previously The English Journal) is the official publication of the Secondary Education section of the American National Council of Teachers of English.

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Fable

Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre. Young adult literature and Fantasy are fiction by genre.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.

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Fiction

Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright.

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G. P. Putnam's Sons

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Gay teen fiction

Gay teen fiction is a subgenre that overlaps with LGBTQ+ literature and young adult literature. Young adult literature and Gay teen fiction are young adult fiction.

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Genre

Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.

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Genre fiction

Genre fiction, also known as formula fiction or popular fiction, is a term used in the book-trade for fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre.

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Glendon Swarthout

Glendon Fred Swarthout (April 8, 1918 – September 23, 1992) was an American writer and novelist.

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Go Ask Alice

Go Ask Alice is a 1971 book about a teenage girl who develops a drug addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive escapism.

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Golden Age

The term Golden Age comes from Greek mythology, particularly the Works and Days of Hesiod, and is part of the description of temporal decline of the state of peoples through five Ages, Gold being the first and the one during which the Golden Race of humanity (chrýseon génos) lived.

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Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a long-form work of sequential art.

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Grey House Publishing

Grey House Publishing is an American publisher of directories and other reference books in business, health, education and other areas.

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Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling.

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Heinlein juveniles

The Heinlein juveniles are the science-fiction novels written by Robert A. Heinlein for Scribner's young-adult line.

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English writer and magistrate known for the use of humour and satire in his works.

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Henry Liddell

Henry George Liddell (6 February 1811– 18 January 1898) was dean (1855–1891) of Christ Church, Oxford, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1870–1874), headmaster (1846–1855) of Westminster School (where a house is now named after him), author of A History of Rome (1855), and co-author (with Robert Scott) of the monumental work A Greek–English Lexicon, known as "Liddell and Scott", which is still widely used by students of Greek.

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His Dark Materials

His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995; published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000).

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events. Young adult literature and historical fiction are fiction by genre.

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Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).

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Hybrid genre

A hybrid genre is a literary or film genre that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres.

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography describing the young and early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou.

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Iliad

The Iliad (Iliás,; " about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

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J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling (born 31 July 1965), known by her pen name, is a British author and philanthropist.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist.

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Jack Zipes

Jack David Zipes (born June 7, 1937) is a literary scholar and author.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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Jeff Kinney

Jeffrey Patrick Kinney (born February 19, 1971) is an American author and cartoonist.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".

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Judy Blume

Judith Blume (née Sussman; born February 12, 1938) is an American writer of children's, young adult, and adult fiction.

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Kidnapped (novel)

Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886.

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer.

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Laurie Halse Anderson

Laurie Halse Anderson (born Laurie Beth Halse; October 23, 1961) is an American writer, known for children's and young adult novels. She received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2010 for her contribution to young adult literature and 2023 she received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

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Lesbian literature

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican priest.

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Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

The Lewis Carroll Shelf Award was an American literary award conferred on several books by the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education annually from 1958 to 1979.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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Light novel

A light novel (Hepburn: raito noberu) is a type of popular literature novel native to Japan, usually classified as young adult fiction targeting teens to twenties.

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List of children's classic books

This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language.

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List of young adult fiction writers

This is a list of notable writers whose readership is predominantly teenagers or young adults, or adult fiction writers who have published significant works intended for teens/young adults.

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Literary genre

A literary genre is a category of literature.

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Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense.

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Little House on the Prairie

The Little House on the Prairie books comprise a series of American children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder (b. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls).

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).

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Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time.

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Manga

are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.

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Margaret Meek Spencer

Margaret Meek or Margaret Meek Spencer (14 January 1925 – 4 May 2020) was a British educationalist in the field of literacy.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.

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Masturbation

Masturbation is a form of autoeroticism in which a person sexually stimulates their own genitals for sexual arousal or other sexual pleasure, usually to the point of orgasm.

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist.

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Menstruation

Menstruation (also known as a period, among other colloquial terms) is the regular discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the inner lining of the uterus through the vagina.

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Michael Cart

Michael Cart, born on March 6, 1941, in Logansport, Indiana, United States is an author and expert in children's and young adult literature.

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Michael L. Printz Award

The Michael L. Printz Award is an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes the "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit".

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Middle grade literature

Middle grade literature is literature intended for children between the ages of 8 and 12. Young adult literature and Middle grade literature are fiction by genre.

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Monster (Myers novel)

Monster, published April 21, 1999 by HarperCollins, is a young adult drama novel by American author Walter Dean Myers.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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Mystery fiction

Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Young adult literature and mystery fiction are fiction by genre.

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Mystery Writers of America

Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is a professional organization of mystery and crime writers, based in New York City.

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Nathaniel Crouch

Nathaniel Crouch (born c. 1632) was an English printer and bookseller, and under the pseudonym Robert or Richard Burton (sometimes, R.B.) wrote historical books as well.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and screenplays.

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New York Public Library

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.

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Northern Lights (Pullman novel)

Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published in 1995 by Scholastic UK.

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Novel

A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book.

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Odyssey

The Odyssey (Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

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Percy Jackson & the Olympians

Percy Jackson & the Olympians is a series of fantasy novels written by American author Rick Riordan.

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Persepolis (comics)

Persepolis is a series of autobiographical graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi that depict her childhood and early adult years in Iran and Austria during and after the Islamic Revolution.

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Person of color

The term "person of color" (people of color or persons of color; abbreviated POC) is primarily used to describe any person who is not considered "white".

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Philip Pullman

Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer.

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Philippe Ariès

Philippe Ariès (21 July 1914 – 8 February 1984) was a French medievalist and historian of the family and childhood, in the style of Georges Duby.

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Podkayne of Mars

Podkayne of Mars is a science-fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in Worlds of If (November 1962, January, March 1963), and published in hardcover in 1963.

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Poverty

Poverty is a state or condition in which an individual lacks the financial resources and essentials for a certain standard of living.

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Problem of evil

The problem of evil is the philosophical question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God.

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Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.

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Red Shift (novel)

Red Shift is a 1973 fantasy novel by Alan Garner.

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Religious debates over the Harry Potter series

Religious debates over the Harry Potter series of books by J. K. Rowling are based on claims that the novels contain occult or Satanic subtexts.

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Rick Riordan

Richard Russell Riordan Jr. (born June 5, 1964) is an American author, best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.

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Riddle

A riddle is a statement, question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.

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Robb White

Robb White III (20 June 1909 – 24 Nov. 1990) was an American writer of screenplays, television scripts, and adventure novels.

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Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer.

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Robinson Duckworth

Robinson Duckworth (4 December 1834 – 20 September 1911) was a British priest, who was present on the original boating expedition of 4 July 1862 during which Alice's adventures were first told by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).

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Rocket Ship Galileo

Rocket Ship Galileo, a juvenile science-fiction novel by the American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1947, features three teenagers who participate in a pioneering flight to the Moon.

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Romance novel

A romance novel or romantic novel is a genre fiction novel that primary focuses on the relationship and romantic love between two people, typically with an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending.

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Rosa Guy

Rosa Cuthbert Guy (September 1, 1922Margalit Fox,, The New York Times, June 7, 2012. – June 3, 2012) was a Trinidad-born American writer who grew up in the New York metropolitan area.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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S. E. Hinton

Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels (YA) set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967), which she wrote during high school.

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Sarah Trimmer

Sarah Trimmer (née Kirby; 6 January 1741 – 15 December 1810) was a writer and critic of 18th-century British children's literature, as well as an educational reformer.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. Young adult literature and science fiction are fiction by genre.

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Serial (literature)

In literature, a serial is a printing or publishing format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential instalments.

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Seventeenth Summer

Seventeenth Summer is a young adult novel written by Maureen Daly and published in 1942.

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Shōjo manga

is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent females and young adult women.

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Shōnen manga

is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent boys.

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Sheila Egoff

Sheila Agnes Egoff (January 20, 1918 – May 22, 2005) was a Canadian librarian, literary critic, and historian who was Canada's first professor of children's literature.

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Sherman Alexie

Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker.

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Social novel

The social novel, also known as the social problem (or social protest) novel, is a "work of fiction in which a prevailing social problem, such as gender, race, or class prejudice, is dramatized through its effect on the characters of a novel".

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Speak (Anderson novel)

Speak, published in 1999, is a young adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson that tells the story of high school freshman Melinda Sordino.

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Speculative fiction

Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre of fiction that encompasses all the subgenres that depart from realism, or strictly imitating everyday reality, instead presenting fantastical, supernatural, futuristic, or other imaginative realms. Young adult literature and Speculative fiction are fiction by genre.

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Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein.

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Stephen Chbosky

Stephen Chbosky (born January 25, 1970) is an American film director, screenwriter, and author.

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Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer (née Morgan; born December 24, 1973) is an American novelist and film producer known for writing the vampire romance series Twilight, which has sold over 160 million copies, with translations into 37 different languages.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins (born August 10, 1962) is an American author and television writer.

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Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

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Taboo

A taboo, also spelled tabu, is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, offensive, sacred, or allowed only for certain people.

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Techno-thriller

A techno-thriller or technothriller is a hybrid genre drawing from science fiction, thrillers, spy fiction, action, and war novels.

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a first-person narrative novel by Sherman Alexie, from the perspective of a Native American teenager, Arnold Spirit Jr., also known as "Junior," a 14-year-old promising cartoonist.

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The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath.

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The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses

The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is an 1888 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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The Book Thief

The Book Thief is a historical fiction novel by the Australian author Markus Zusak, set in Nazi Germany during World War II.

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The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by American author J. D. Salinger that was partially published in serial form in 1945–46 before being novelized in 1951.

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The Conversation (website)

The Conversation is a network of nonprofit media outlets publishing news stories and research reports online, with accompanying expert opinion and analysis.

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The Giver

The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry, set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Guardian of Education

The Guardian of Education was the first successful periodical dedicated to reviewing children's literature in Britain.

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The Hobbit

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street is a 1984 novel by Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros.

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The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games are a series of young adult dystopian novels written by American author Suzanne Collins.

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The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel by the English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Mortal Instruments

The Mortal Instruments is a series of six young adult fantasy novels written by American author Cassandra Clare, the last of which was published on May 27, 2014.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Nursery "Alice"

The Nursery "Alice" (1889/90) is an abridged version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll, adapted by the author himself for children "from nought to five".

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The Outsiders (novel)

The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S.E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press.

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The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature

The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature is a reference work first published in 1984, with its most recent edition in 2015.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a 1999 young adult novel by American author Stephen Chbosky.

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The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850.

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The Underland Chronicles

The Underland Chronicles is a series of five high fantasy novels by Suzanne Collins, first published between 2003 and 2007.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams

Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794; retitled The Adventures of Caleb Williams; or Things as They Are in 1831, and often abbreviated to Caleb Williams) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Tom Sawyer

Thomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper.

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Treasure Island

Treasure Island (originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for BoysHammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion, Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan..) is both an 1883 adventure novel and a historical novel set in the 1700s by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, telling a story of "buccaneers and buried gold".

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Twilight (novel series)

Twilight is a series of four fantasy romance novels, two companion novels, and one novella written by American author Stephenie Meyer.

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University of Georgia Press

The University of Georgia Press or UGA Press is the university press of the University of Georgia, a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author.

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Verse novel

A verse novel is a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose.

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Victorian literature

Victorian literature is English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901).

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Vintage Books

Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954.

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Vox (website)

Vox is an American news and opinion website owned by Vox Media.

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian.

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Western canon

The Western canon is the body of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly valued in the West, works that have achieved the status of classics.

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William Godwin

William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Writer's Digest

Writer's Digest is an American magazine aimed at beginning and established writers.

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell".

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Young Adult Library Services Association

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), established in 1957, is a division of the American Library Association.

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Young adult romance literature

Young adult romance literature is a genre of books written for teenagers. Young adult literature and Young adult romance literature are fiction by genre and young adult fiction.

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Young Folks (magazine)

Young Folks was a weekly children's literary magazine published in the United Kingdom between 1871 and 1897.

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See also

Young adult fiction

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_adult_literature

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