Young-adult fiction

Young adult fiction has become a popular and often controversial genre in recent media. The genre encompasses fiction published for readers from 12 to 18 years of age, yet can contain sensitive and complex topics such as suicide, self-harm and death. Such novels have been widely criticised by parents and primary care givers in an attempt to protect their children from the seemingly macabre subject matter contained within. In spite or because of that, it is posited that adolescents should indeed be exposed to these controversial topics in young adult fiction, so that they may safely be exposed to such themes which facilitate the learning of important life lessons from the safety of their bedroom, enabling them to develop mental resilience and…

Young Adult fiction has always been enriched with ancient myths, folklore and legends. This can be seen from The Chronicles of Narnia to Harry Potter. By using myths and alluding to ancient sources in Young Adult fiction this has normally guaranteed these books to be a success. The main books which will be focused on in this dissertation are the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. All of these books, according to the…

The Keeper Mal Peet wrote books best known for young adult fiction. His first novel was The Keeper, which is a novel under the categories of young adult fiction and sports fiction, took him three years to finish and was started when he was at the age of 52. The book is about one of the world’s greatest soccer goalies and how he got to where he is coming from a small, poor logging town. Mal Peet wrote The Keeper is such a unique way. It includes tension, mystery, and excitement. It’s memorable…

Half-Priced Books The children’s and young adult’s section at half priced books is not everything that one would expect it to be. Both sections were at the back of the store stuffed into a small corner area which made each section feel very small. There were also more parents in these sections than children, but my description of these areas may explain why this is so. Overall, I felt that these sections were more laid out for adults to buy books for their children than for children to come…

vol. 23, no. 4, 2011, pp. 497-511. Bullen, Toffoletti, and Parsons’ article explores postfeminism as represented within popular young adult literature. This is significant because young adult books influence their readers at a critical point in their identity development. These novels are another aspect of the media that “…inducts girls into larger cultural narratives about what and how they should desire, and enact that desire” (502). As a result, the authors of this article see young adult…

In the Lord of the Flies, the boys on the island are young and proper kids from Britain. They are merely school children who have never experienced a tribulation as great as being alone on an isolated island. The boys have only past experiences and knowledge to to figure out a way to survive on the island. Growing up civilized helps the boys to create a structure by which to live and an ordered way of doing things. However, while on the island, the boys experience a loss of innocence while…

Another concerned parent, Jean-Pierre Bolat in Wallingford, Connecticut, stated that Perks should be banned because it is a “glorification of alcohol use and drugs. I don’t believe in censorship, but believe in appropriateness.” This raises another issue: who determines what age is appropriate content for this area. Of course the parents believe that they are first and foremost indicator on what educators should teach their children. In comparison, Julia Tomiak--a mother, blogger, and young…

Marr, Melissa. Wicked Lovely. New York: HarperTeen, 2007. Reviewed by: Gao Xiong If you can see things that the human eye can't see, what would you do? It's like seeing a whole new world that you didn't know that it existed. The book Wicked Lovely was created by Marr, Melissa which had the genre of romance, fantasy, and young adult. Aislinn see thing that human eye can't see which causes her to be different from other humans. She could see fey, fey disguise as human and they don't know that she…

Adolescents aren’t known to listen to everything adults tell them to do. We do what we want, say what we want, and read what we want. With so many of us on social media and constantly using the internet, it’s hard to shelter us from the world outside of our homes. Books specifically may be darker from when my parents were my age, but it’s what society has grown to be like today. We are not as conservative and are more open to discussing topics such as suicide, cutting, bullying, and rape. We…

The Hunger Game is one of the most popular young adult novel series rivaling Harry Potter and Twilight. As the first of its film adaptations was just released in March 2012, readers and audiences have been pleasantly surprised at this fresh, dynamic, young female protagonist. The Hunger Games are an "entertainment" tool for the Capitol (the fictional country of Panem 's government), and a device used as a punishment to the work-force population mainly inhabiting the 12 Districts of Panem,…