Ads
related to: classic novels for teen girls
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of notable books by young authors and of books written by notable writers in their early years. These books were written, or substantially completed, before the author's twentieth birthday. Alexandra Adornetto (born 18 April 1994) wrote her debut novel, The Shadow Thief, when she was 13. It was published in 2007.
Rosamond du Jardin (1902–1963) [1] was a writer, best known for 17 books for teen girls published in the 1950s and 1960s. Before then, she wrote short stories and serialized novels for numerous magazines. [2] Her work is of enduring interest in gender studies because it provides a useful view of 1950s norms and rites of passage. [3]
The book takes place over a year, the beginning of which Esperanza is 12 years old and starting to be seen and treated as a young woman, although she is very much still a girl.
This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language. [1] [2] [3] Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children.
Early books, like the junior novels, had little sex, although that gradually changed over the years. The romance series for teens in the 1980s was modeled on adult romances with "more innocent" storylines. [2] These books were generally told from the point-of-view of a 15–16-year-old girl experiencing her first love. [9]
Author and academic Michael Cart states that the term young adult literature "first found common usage in the late 1960's, in reference to realistic fiction that was set in the real (as opposed to imagined), contemporary world and addressed problems, issues, and life circumstances of interest to young readers aged approximately 12–18".