Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
HV1431 .S97 2006. Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids is a non-fiction book by Maia Szalavitz analyzing the controversy surrounding the troubled teen industry. The book was published February 16, 2006, by Riverhead Books. Szalavitz focuses on four programs: Straight, Incorporated, a copy of the Straight ...
Young adult literature. Young adult literature ( YA) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 [ 1][ 2] and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as friendship, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality. [ 3] Stories that focus on the challenges of youth may be further categorized as social or coming-of-age novels .
It's Me, Margaret. is a middle-grade novel by American writer Judy Blume, published in 1970. Its protagonist, Margaret Simon, is a sixth-grader who grows up without a religious affiliation because of her parents' interfaith marriage. This contemporary realistic novel was popular with middle-grade readers in the 1970s for its relatable portrayal ...
Your book-loving teen (and even you!) will love these YA novels. Top YA books, books for teens and young adult books. Greatest books for your young adult.
The Poet X. The Poet X, published March 6, 2018 by HarperTeen, is a young adult novel by Elizabeth Acevedo. Fifteen-year-old Xiomara, also known as "X" or "Xio," works through the tension and conflict in her family by writing poetry. The book, a New York Times bestseller, [ 1] was well received and won multiple awards at the 2019 Youth Media ...
Out of My Mind is a 2010 novel by Sharon M. Draper, a New York Times bestselling author. [ 1] The cover illustration of the fifth edition is by Daniel Chang, and the cover photography is by Cyril Bruneau/Jupiter Images. A reading group guide is enclosed. The book is recommended for ages 10-14 and for grades 5–8.
Holes is a 1998 young adult novel written by Louis Sachar and first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book centers on Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a correctional boot camp in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft. The plot explores the history of the area and how the actions of several characters ...
Sisterhood became a New York Times bestseller, was named an ALA Best Books for Young Adults, won a Book Sense Book of the Year, and was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start. [5] The book received positive reviews from The Bulletin, and Seventeen, [5] as well as starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, [6] [7] and Kirkus Reviews. [8]