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The Success and Ambiguity of Young Adult Literature: Merging Literary Modes in Contemporary British Fiction Virginie Douglas
The Success and Ambiguity of Young Adult Literature: Merging Literary Modes in Contemporary British Fiction Virginie Douglas To cite this version: Virginie Douglas. The Success and Ambiguity of Young Adult Literature: Merging Literary Modes in Contemporary British Fiction. Publije, Le Mans Université, 2018. hal-02059857 HAL Id: hal-02059857 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02059857 Submitted on 7 Mar 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Abstract: This paper focuses on novels addressed to that category of older teenagers called “young adults”, a particularly successful category that is traditionally regarded as a subpart of children’s literature and yet terminologically insists on overriding the adult/child divide by blurring the frontier between adulthood and childhood and focusing on the transition from one state to the other. In Britain, YA fiction has developed extensively in the last four decades and I wish to concentrate on what this literary emergence and evolution has entailed since the beginning of the 21st century, especially from the point of view of genre and narrative mode. I will examine the cases of recognized—although sometimes controversial—authors, arguing that although British YA fiction is deeply indebted to and anchored in the pioneering American tradition, which proclaimed the end of the Romantic child as well as that of the compulsory happy ending of the children’s book, there seems to be a recent trend which consists in alleviating the roughness, the straightforwardness of realism thanks to elements or touches of fantasy. -
Saving Francesca
TEACHERS ’ RESOURCES RECOMMENDED FOR Upper secondary Ages 14+; years 9 to 12 CONTENTS 1. Plot summary 1 2. About the author 2 3. About the book 2 4. Mode of telling 2 5. Key themes and study topics 3–8 6. Further reading 8–9 KEY CURRICULUM AREAS Learning areas: English General capabilities: Language, Literature, Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability REASONS FOR STUDYING THIS BOOK To analyse how language and writing evoke mood, tone and character To discuss what makes a story and its characters extraordinary and fully realised To discuss identity and self-actualisation To discuss gender difference and what Saving Francesca feminism means today; to contrast this with feminism’s origins and the changing role of girls Melina Marchetta and women To encourage creative and imaginative writing To discuss resilience and mental health PLOT SUMMARY Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in THEMES Year Eleven at an all boy’s school that has just started Identity accepting girls. She misses her old friends, and, to Friendship make things worse, her mother has had a breakdown Family Feminism and can barely move from her bed. Humour But Francesca had not counted on the fierce loyalty of Mental health her new friends, or falling in love, or finding that it’s Memory within her to bring her family back together. PREPARED BY A memorable and much-loved Australian classic Penguin Random House Australia and Judith Ridge filled with humour, compassion and joy, from the internationally bestselling and multi-award-winning PUBLICATION DETAILS author of Looking for Alibrandi. -
Ysd Ar 2010-11
Delaware Library Association Youth Services Division Annual Report to the DLA President, 2010 – 2011 The Children’s Services Division has been active for the year 2010 – 2011, especially with the Delaware Blue Hen Children’s Choice Book Award, which the division sponsors, and the Summer Reading Club in which all public libraries and the Dover Air Force base library participate. The officers for the division for this year have been: Maureen Miller, Lewes Public Library, President Audrey Avery, Dover Public Library, Vice President Sherri Scott, Georgetown Public Library, Secretary-Treasurer Activities of the division include: 1. The Summer Reading Club theme for 2010 was “Make a Splash at Your Library”. The statistics (with 35 libraries reporting) were: Registration = 14,195 (13,147 children, 1048 teens) Completions = 8,038 (7482 children, 556 teens) Percentage of Completions = 56% 2. The 2011 Delaware Blue Hen Children’s Choice Book Awards were voted on by the children of Delaware . The winners were: Picture Book: Tiger Pups by Tom and Allie Harvey Chapter Book: A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck Teen Book: If I Stay by Gayle Forman 3. The 2012 Delaware Blue Hen Children’s Choice Book Award nominees were selected by the youth service award committees. The voting will take place from March 1 to September 31, 2011. The ballots are attached. The winners will be announced on the first Saturday in November 7, 2011, in each public library in the state, along with the official press release. The nominees are as follows: Early Readers: Chalk by -
Norristown Area High School Summer Reading List: Grade 11 (Current 10Th Graders)
Norristown Area High School Summer Reading List: Grade 11 (Current 10th graders) All Non AP English III students The teachers of Norristown Area High School feel that it is important for students to continue to work on acquiring, maintaining and improving reading and analysis skills through the summer months as well as appreciating literature and reading for personal enjoyment. To that end, the teachers in the English department have put together the following lists of suggested titles for grade 11. Non-Weighted Honors--Choose one book from below for the Independent Reading Student Choice. No assignment required. Weighted Honors--Choose one book from below for the Independent Reading and complete a double entry journal of at least 20 entries for one of the following books. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (Graphic Novel) -- American Born Chinese is the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award and the first to win the American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award. An intentionally over-the-top stereotypical Chinese character make this a better fit for teen readers who have the sophistication to understand the author's intent. Three parallel stories interlock in this graphic novel. In the first, the American-born Chinese boy of the title, Jin, moves with his family from San Francisco's Chinatown to a mostly white suburb. There he's exposed to racism, bullying, and taunts. The second story is a retelling of the story of the Monkey King, a fabled Chinese character who develops extraordinary powers in his quest to be accepted as a god. -
The YA Novel in the Digital Age by Amy Bright a Thesis
The YA Novel in the Digital Age by Amy Bright A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English Department of English and Film Studies University of Alberta © Amy Bright, 2016 Abstract Recent research by Neilsen reports that adult readers purchase 80% of all young adult novels sold, even though young adult literature is a category ostensibly targeted towards teenage readers (Gilmore). More than ever before, young adult (YA) literature is at the center of some of the most interesting literary conversations, as writers, readers, and publishers discuss its wide appeal in the twenty-first century. My dissertation joins this vibrant discussion by examining the ways in which YA literature has transformed to respond to changing social and technological contexts. Today, writing, reading, and marketing YA means engaging with technological advances, multiliteracies and multimodalities, and cultural and social perspectives. A critical examination of five YA texts – Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens, Daniel Handler’s Why We Broke Up, John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, and Jaclyn Moriarty’s The Ghosts of Ashbury High – helps to shape understanding about the changes and the challenges facing this category of literature as it responds in a variety of ways to new contexts. In the first chapter, I explore the history of YA literature in order to trace the ways that this literary category has changed in response to new conditions to appeal to and serve a new generation of readers, readers with different experiences, concerns, and contexts over time. -
Science Fiction
Science Fiction The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu When out-of-shape IT technician Roen Tan woke up and started hearing voices in his head, he naturally assumed he was losing it. He wasn’t. He now has a passenger in his brain – an ancient alien life-form called Tao, whose race crash-landed on Earth before the first fish crawled out of the oceans. Now split into two opposing factions – the peace-loving, but under-represented Prophus, and the savage, powerful Genjix – the aliens have been in a state of civil war for centuries. Both sides are searching for a way off-planet, and the Genjix will sacrifice the entire human race, if that’s what it takes. Meanwhile, Roen is having to train to be the ultimate secret agent. Like that’s going to end up well… 2014 YALSA Alex Award winner The Testing (The Testing Trilogy Series #1) by Joelle Charbonneau It’s graduation day for sixteen-year-old Malencia Vale, and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating. All Cia can think about—hope for— is whether she’ll be chosen for The Testing, a United Commonwealth program that selects the best and brightest new graduates to become possible leaders of the slowly revitalizing post-war civiliZation. When Cia is chosen, her father finally tells her about his own nightmarish half-memories of The Testing. Armed with his dire warnings (”Cia, trust no one”), she bravely heads off to Tosu City, far away from friends and family, perhaps forever. Danger, romance—and sheer terror—await. -
Michael L. Printz Winners and Honor Books the Michael L
Michael L. Printz Winners and Honor Books The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. 2014 2010 Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick Going Bovine by Libba Bray Honor Books: Honor Books: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman Kingdom of Little Wounds by Susann Cokal The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner Punkzilla by Adam Rapp Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes 2013 In Darkness by Nick Lake 2009 Honor Books: Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Honor Books: Sáenz The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 2: The Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson Dodger by Terry Pratchett The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna Nation by Terry Pratchett Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan 2012 Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley 2008 Honor Books: The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean Why We Broke Up, written by Daniel Handler, art by Maira Kalman Honor Books: The Returning, written by Christine Hinwood Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox Jasper Jones, written by Craig Silvey One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke The Scorpio Races, written by Maggie Stiefvater Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill 2011 Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi 2007 Honor Books: American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Stolen by Lucy Christopher Honor Books: Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. -
Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century: a Critical Survey
CHINESE LITERATURE IN THE SECOND HALF OF A MODERN CENTURY A CRITICAL SURVEY Edited by PANG-YUAN CHI and DAVID DER-WEI WANG INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS • BLOOMINGTON AND INDIANAPOLIS William Tay’s “Colonialism, the Cold War Era, and Marginal Space: The Existential Condition of Five Decades of Hong Kong Literature,” Li Tuo’s “Resistance to Modernity: Reflections on Mainland Chinese Literary Criticism in the 1980s,” and Michelle Yeh’s “Death of the Poet: Poetry and Society in Contemporary China and Taiwan” first ap- peared in the special issue “Contemporary Chinese Literature: Crossing the Bound- aries” (edited by Yvonne Chang) of Literature East and West (1995). Jeffrey Kinkley’s “A Bibliographic Survey of Publications on Chinese Literature in Translation from 1949 to 1999” first appeared in Choice (April 1994; copyright by the American Library Associ- ation). All of the essays have been revised for this volume. This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail [email protected] © 2000 by David D. W. Wang All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. -
Talking Books for Children – Ausgewählte Untersuchungen Zum Hörbuchangebot Für Kinder in Australien
Talking books for children – Ausgewählte Untersuchungen zum Hörbuchangebot für Kinder in Australien Diplomarbeit im Fach Kinder- und Jugendmedien Studiengang Öffentliche Bibliotheken der Fachhochschule Stuttgart – Hochschule der Medien Daniela Kies Erstprüfer: Prof. Dr. Horst Heidtmann Zweitprüfer: Prof. Dr. Manfred Nagl Bearbeitungszeitraum: 15. Juli 2002 bis 15. Oktober 2002 Stuttgart, Oktober 2002 Kurzfassung 2 Kurzfassung Gegenstand der hier vorgestellten Arbeit ist das Hörbuchangebot für Kinder in Austra- lien. Seit Jahren haben Gesellschaften für Blinde Tonträger für die eigenen Bibliothe- ken produziert, um blinden oder sehbehinderten Menschen zu helfen. Hörmedien von kommerziellen Produzenten, in Australien ist ABC Enterprises der größte, sind in der Regel gekürzte Versionen von Büchern. Bolinda Audio arbeitet kommerziell, veröffent- licht aber nur ungekürzte Versionen. Louis Braille Audio und VoyalEyes sind Abteilun- gen von Organisationen für Blinde, die Tonträger auch an Bibliotheken verkaufen und sie sind auch im Handel erhältlich. Grundsätzlich gelten öffentliche Bibliotheken als Hauptzielgruppe und ihnen werden spezielle Dienstleistungen von den Verlagen selbst oder dem Bibliothekszulieferer angeboten. Die britische und amerikanische Konkurrenz ist im Kindertonträgerbereich besonders groß. Aus diesem Grund spezialisieren sich australische Hörbuchverlage auf die Produktion von Büchern australischer Autoren und/ oder über Australien. Bei Kindern sind die Autoren John Marsden, Paul Jennings und Andy Griffiths sehr beliebt. Stig Wemyss, ein ausgebildeter Schauspieler, hat zahl- reiche Bücher bei verschiedenen Verlagen erfolgreich gelesen. Musik bzw. Lieder wer- den auf Hörbüchern nur vereinzelt verwendet. Es gibt aber einige Gruppen, z.B. die Wiggles, und Entertainer, z.B. Don Spencer, die Lieder für Kinder schreiben und auf- nehmen. Da der Markt für Kindertonträger in Australien noch im Aufbau ist, lohnt es sich, die Entwicklungen weiter zu verfolgen. -
Printz Award Winners
The White Darkness The First Part Last Teen by Geraldine McCaughrean by Angela Johnson YF McCaughrean YF Johnson 2008. When her uncle takes her on a 2004. Bobby's carefree teenage life dream trip to the Antarctic changes forever when he becomes a wilderness, Sym's obsession with father and must care for his adored Printz Award Captain Oates and the doomed baby daughter. expedition becomes a reality as she is soon in a fight for her life in some of the harshest terrain on the planet. Postcards From No Man's Winners Land American Born Chinese by Aidan Chambers by Gene Luen Yang YF Chambers YGN Yang 2003. Jacob Todd travels to 2007. This graphic novel alternates Amsterdam to honor his grandfather, between three interrelated stories a soldier who died in a nearby town about the problems of young in World War II, while in 1944, a girl Chinese Americans trying to named Geertrui meets an English participate in American popular soldier named Jacob Todd, who culture. must hide with her family. Looking for Alaska A Step From Heaven by John Green by Na An YF Green YF An 2006. 16-year-old Miles' first year at 2002. At age four, Young Ju moves Culver Creek Preparatory School in with her parents from Korea to Alabama includes good friends and Southern California. She has always great pranks, but is defined by the imagined America would be like search for answers about life and heaven: easy, blissful and full of death after a fatal car crash. riches. But when her family arrives, The Michael L. -
Fiction Catàleg
Spring 2021 Fiction Rights Guide Creative Management 19 West 21st St. Suite 501, New York, NY 10010 / Telephone: (212) 765-6900 / E-mail: [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS THE REDSHIRT THE ALMOST QUEEN RAFT OF STARS WHITE ON WHITE THE ROCK EATERS BEND YOU TO REMAIN IMPOSTER SYNDROME NEXT SHIP HOME SURVIVE THE NIGHT WALK THE VANISHED EARTH THREE WORDS FOR GOODBYE THE MAN WHO SOLD AIR IN THE HOLY LAND NOBODY, SOMEBODY, ANYBODY WILD CAT THE BACHELOR CHEVY IN THE HOLE THE LAST MONA LISA THE COMMUNITY BOARD IMMEDIATE FAMILY FOR THE LOVE OF THE BARD THE BODY SCOUT THE WILD ONE O, BEAUTIFUL NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED... THE UNKNOWN WOMAN OF THE SEINE MORE OF EVERYTHING ALL HER LITTLE SECRETS FLIGHT THE LIGHT PIRATE ISLANDERS GO HOME, RICKY! EXOSKELETONS CAIRO CIRCLES THE MYTHMAKERS THE REDSHIRT A Novel By Corey Sobel NA October 2020 / University Press of Kentucky Final PDF Available Shortlisted for 2020 Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize Corey Sobel challenges tenacious stereotypes in this compelling debut novel, shedding new light on the hypermasculine world of American football. The Redshirtintroduces Miles Furling, a young man who is convinced he was placed on earth to play football. Deep in the closet, he sees the sport as a means of gaining a permanent foothold in a culture that would otherwise reject him. Still, Miles’s body lags behind his ambitions, and recruiters tell him he is not big enough to com- pete at the top level. His dreams come true when a letter arrives from King College. -
Table of Contents
Contents About This Volume . ix L . M . Montgomery . 64 List of Contributors . xi Walter Dean Myers . 66 Editor’s Introduction . xiii Patrick Ness . 68 Scott O’Dell . 70 Ellen Oh . 71 Biographies Gary Paulsen . 73 Richard Peck . 74 Laurie Halse Anderson . 3 Julie Anne Peters . 76 M . T . Anderson . 4 Sir Terry Pratchett . 78 Francesca Lia Block . 6 Philip Pullman . 80 Judy Blume . 8 Rick Riordan . 81 Coe Booth . 10 Veronica Roth . 83 Libba Bray . 12 Rainbow Rowell . 86 Meg Cabot . 13 J . K . Rowling . 88 Orson Scott Card . 15 Louis Sachar . 90 Aidan Chambers . 17 Benjamin Alire Saenz . 91 Stephen Chbosky . 19 Andrew Smith . 93 Cassandra Clare . 20 Maggie Stiefvater . 95 Suzanne Collins . 22 Ned Vizzini . 97 Robert Cormier . 23 Cynthia Voigt . 98 Cath Crowley . 25 John Corey Whaley . 101 Chris Crutcher . 26 Jacqueline Woodson . 102 Sharon M . Draper . 28 Gene Luen Yang . 104 Lois Duncan . 30 Markus Zusak . 106 Gayle Forman . 31 John Green . 33 Sonya Hartnett . 35 Plot Summaries S . E . Hinton . 36 Alaya Dawn Johnson . 38 The Absolutely True Diary of a Angela Johnson . 39 Part-time Indian . 111 M . E . Kerr . 41 All the Truth That’s in Me . 112 Madeleine L’Engle . 43 American Born Chinese . 113 Justine Larbalestier . 45 Annie on My Mind . 115 Ursula K . Le Guin . 46 Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets David Levithan . 48 of the Universe . 117 C .S . Lewis . 50 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Malinda Lo . 51 Traitor to the Nation . 119 E . Lockhart . 53 Baby Be-Bop . 121 Lois Lowry . 55 Ball Don’t Lie .