Latest Young-adult fiction Stories
NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J., Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- More than half the consumers of books classified for young adults aren't all that young. Fully 55% of buyers of works that publishers designate for kids aged 12 to 17 - nicknamed YA books -- are 18 or older, with the largest segment aged 30 to 44. Accounting for 28 percent of sales, these adults aren't just purchasing for others -- when asked about the intended recipient, they report that 78 percent of the time they are purchasing...
LOS ANGELES, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Debut author Jennifer Gooch Hummer has won eight awards and finalist categories for her critically-acclaimed Young Adult novel Girl Unmoored, published in March by Fiction Studio Books. Girl Unmoored, a coming-of-age story set in 1985, has cross-over appeal for young adults and those who came of age in the 1980s. It's been compared to Judy Blume's 1970 novel, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret due to the engaging way it tackles tough...
Bestselling authors of teen literature portray their more foul-mouthed characters as rich, attractive and popular, a new study finds. Brigham Young University professor Sarah Coyne analyzed the use of profanity in 40 books on an adolescent bestsellers list. On average, teen novels contain 38 instances of profanity between the covers. That translates to almost seven instances of profanity per hour spent reading. Coyne was intrigued not just by how much swearing happens in teen lit, but who...
LOS ANGELES, April 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Saving You Saving Me, the first in the You & Me Trilogy and the newest release from international bestselling author of young adult fiction Kailin Gow, coincides with the launch of the Saving You Saving Me Project, an online community where people can anonymously post about real problems they are facing and get feedback from other users. The website is located at http://www.savingyousavingme.com/. (Photo:...
NEW YORK, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) Ethnic Studies Professor Zetta Elliott just published her second young adult novel, Ship of Souls, from Amazon/Encore. The book links the histories of Revolutionary War soldiers and African slaves with the lives of three young people in present-day NYC. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click...
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Steampunk Scarlett is described as Nancy Drew meets Steampunk in 1890s Victorian London. Supernatural Devices, Book 1 of the Steampunk Scarlett novels for teens and young adults is a combination of mystery, romance, fantasy, science fiction, paranormal, and steampunk. This young adult series will also feature a new technology within the paperback and epub versions of the books, which brings more interactivity and sense of adventure with the...
HOUSTON, May 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 1, 2011, award-winning author Andrea White will release Windows on the World, the first book in her trilogy of science fiction novels for young adults titled UpCity Chronicles. Windows on the World charts the intertwining paths of two young girls living nearly a century apart. In 2083, streetwise 13-year-old Shama Katooee is mysteriously recruited to attend the Chronos Academy, an elite boarding school dedicated to time travel. Leaving behind a...
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y., April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The teen years are challenging enough, even without a psychotic mother. In Running for My Life, a new young adult novel from WestSide Books, Andrea McKane seems like a typical fourteen-year-old. She likes fried chicken, her floppy stuffed rabbit Pedro, and a certain cute guy. But she's also dealing with a mentally ill parent and trying to handle her own resulting problems with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Andrea faces the heartbreaking...
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal themes of love and loss are explored in Cashay (Houghton Mifflin), a new novel by award-winning author Margaret McMullan, in which readers 12 and up learn what happens to one teenager when her life is changed forever by a stray bullet. Chicago's mean streets form the backdrop for this riveting story of a teen who manages to overcome unspeakable tragedy with the help of a caring adult. After fourteen-year-old Cashay's beloved younger...
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Two new young adult novels from WestSide Books blend coming-of-age stories with historical fiction to shed new light on race relations and young people's experiences in mid-twentieth century America. In Between Us Baxters, by Bethany Hegedus, the friendship between two girls-one white, one black-reveals a 1950s Southern town torn apart by racism in the Jim Crow South. In Seattle Blues, by Michael Wenberg, a young black teen spends the summer of 1969...
