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Showing posts with label YA Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YA Fiction. Show all posts
Thursday, 27 September 2018

Are teenagers - and their brains - different?

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by Teri Terry For a long time it was thought that most brain development takes place in the early years; that a teen essentially has an a...
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Friday, 15 June 2012

Congratulations to Patrick Ness and Jim Kay

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By Candy Gourlay My favourite image from this amazing novel. A Monster Calls combines an extraordinary idea, a powerful story, and tr...
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Friday, 8 July 2011

Is Young Adult fiction safe for young adults to read? Discussing darkness in teen fiction

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By Jackie Marchant Guest Blogger ‘Contemporary fiction for teens is rife with explicit abuse, violence and depravity’ Discuss. Is it? D...
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Monday, 6 December 2010

Open Book and Mariella Frostrup Interview YA authors

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by Teri Terry Is a bit of your brain still a teenager? If so, YA may be just the thing… I’d like to think that one day, Mariella Frostrup ...
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008

Sherman Alexie on The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian and Why YA is So Cool

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I just finished writing my chapter for the day and it's total rubbish but at least I've now hit 22,412 words. That's good right?...
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Technology: where I draw the line

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I'm always harping on about how we do teenagers down about their use of technology and I really do believe they deserve our respect and ...
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Tuesday, 3 June 2008

Teens Do Read - Take That, Anti-Hoody People!

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As the mother of two hoodies, I take exception to frequent put-downs of teenagers - the sort that reduce their complexity to 'feral thug...
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Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Do teens really prefer their books without eyeballs?

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Over at the blog of Justine Larbalastier ( Magic or Madness ), the cover of her much awaited new YA book How to Ditch Your Fairy has just b...
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008

YA Readers Are So Worth Writing For

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I once attended a talk by Meg Rosoff ( How I Live Now ) at which a middle aged lady raised her hand and expressed surprise that Rosoff was w...
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Saturday, 16 February 2008

Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestiere on the YA Fiction Boom

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Justine Larbalestiere and Scott Westerfeld appeared on Cult Pop to talk about the why's and wherefore's of Young Audult fiction. ...
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