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  2. Young adult literature - Wikipedia

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    English language young adult fiction and children's literature in general have historically shown a lack of books with a main character who is a person of color, LGBT, or disabled. [115] In the UK 90% of the best-selling YA titles from 2006 to 2016 featured white, able-bodied, cis-gendered, and heterosexual main characters. [ 116 ]

  3. Palo Alto (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    Inspired by some of Franco's own teenage memories, [1] [2] and memories written and submitted by high school students at Palo Alto Senior High School, [3] the stories describe life in Palo Alto as experienced by a series of teenagers who spend most of their time indulging in driving drunk, using drugs and taking part in unplanned acts of ...

  4. The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents - Wikipedia

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    ALAN, The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents is a teachers organization in the United States, an independent assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Founded in November 1973, ALAN is made up of teachers, authors, librarians, publishers, teacher-educators and their students, and others who are particularly interested ...

  5. Literacy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Scores in each aspect (prose, document, and quantitative) were grouped in five levels: level 1 (0-225), level 2 (226-275), level 3 (276-325), level 4 (326-375), and level 5 (376-500). The survey revealed that the literacy of about 40 million adults was limited to Level 1 (the lowest level, an understanding of basic written instructions).

  6. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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    Boarding schools in literature are centred on older pre-adolescent and adolescent school life, and are most commonly set in English boarding schools. Popular school stories from this period include Ronald Searle 's comic St Trinian's (1949–1953) and his illustrations for Geoffrey Willans 's Molesworth series, Jill Murphy 's The Worst Witch ...

  7. Cinder (novel) - Wikipedia

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    This collection included nine stories, five of which have never been published and an excerpt of Marissa Meyer's stand alone novel, Heartless, which was released on November 8, 2016. [21] Meyer has confirmed there has been interest in a movie adaptation of Cinder, and has signed a deal for the movie, although the studio is being kept secret ...

  8. The Adolescent - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the unabridged English translations of the novel: Constance Garnett (1916, as A Raw Youth) Andrew R. MacAndrew (1971, as The Adolescent) Richard Freeborn (1994, as An Accidental Family) Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (2003, as The Adolescent) Dora O'Brien (2017, as The Adolescent)

  9. English as a Second Language Podcast - Wikipedia

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    English as a Second Language (ESL) Podcast is a web-based English language-learning podcast. It is the first and longest-running English language learning podcast on the Internet. It was launched in July 2005 by two former university professors, Dr. Jeff McQuillan and Dr. Lucy Tse of the Center for Educational Development in Los Angeles ...