ARGHHH!!!!!!! Will this ever end??
Week 7, Assignment 2
I read YA Comes of Age and The Next Best Thing. Both articles mentioned vampires and paranormal books as being crossover from adult to young adult. The Next Best Thing calls the interest in dystopian novels as the Hunger Games Effect. There is an increasing number of adult fiction authors transitioning over to young adult. Authors such as James Pattersson, Carl Hiaasen and John Grisham. In the YA comes of Age article, Alessandra Balzer states that "there are no more taboos; YA covers every category".
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Week 7, Assignment 3
I am following Stacked. Is is written by Kimberly Francisco who is a public librarian and Kelly Jensen who calls herself a "compulsive consumer of all things books and blogs". It is written primarily for readers of young adult books. It also contains audio books, digital books, videos, music, zines, and graphic novels. Interesting topics, but sometimes they seem to go on too long. It has won the CYBILS- Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards award 4 years in a row.
I have also been following School Library Journal: Someday My Printz Will Come. Karny Silvrman and Sarah Couri write this blog. They are both high school librarians have been members of YALSA. They review books which they will be likely to be considered for the Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. This would appeal to any reader interested in the best of YA books.
Week 7, Assignment 4
All the websites had some paranormal and dystopian materials.
Went to Teens/Penguin Young Readers. I enjoyed browing through the site. Tried Matched
Society Matched them; Love set them free. Use our Matched Facebook application to find your Optimal Match. First was matched with a teacher/musician then tried it again and was matched with another librarian. Can't see either as my optimal match.
Harlequin Teen. Boring, boring site. Lots of information, but terrible formatting.
Hi Sharyn, We are both are working on our bookish assignments on teen cross over popularity- wouldn't it be interesting to see just how successful those big named adult authors are with teens- Are they excited about the Hiaasen book, the Jodi Piccoult- I don't see them a hot items with teens but I have no proof.
ReplyDeleteI think it is great that so many fantastic adult writers are bridging over into the teen market. Teens deserve to have great writers as well and since these writers have proven themselves in the adult market we know they can excell in the teen market as well.
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