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unusual facts about young adult novel



Alma Bridwell White

Alma White, the Pillar of Fire, and their association with the Klan are dramatized in Libba Bray's New York Times best-selling 2012 murder mystery The Diviners, in a chapter titled "The Good Citizen." The Diviners is being made into a feature film by Paramount Pictures.

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (1999) is a young adult novel by Louise Rennison.

Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross

Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross is a 1915 young adult novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz.

Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale

Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale is a 2007 young adult novel written by Donna Jo Napoli.

Robert MacNaughton

Robert also played the lead role of Adam Farmer in the 1983 film I Am the Cheese, based on the young adult novel by Robert Cormier.

The Harvard Independent

In 2006, the Independent was the first to report that Harvard student Kaavya Viswanathan's highly publicized debut young adult novel How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life contained "imagery, sentence structure, and paragraph organization" which was "strikingly similar" to material in Tanuja Desai Hidier's 2002 novel Born Confused.

What I Call Life

What I Call Life is a young adult novel by Jill Wolfson.


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Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets

Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life is a young adult novel by Beatrice Sparks, cited as non-fiction by her, but with no viable sources to suggest that the story, the characters, or the narrator are in any way factual.

Andrea Seigel

In 2010, her third young adult novel, "The Kid Table" was optioned by producer Ivan Reitman for Paramount Pictures.

Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants

Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants! is young adult novel (a romance aimed at girls aged 13–15), by British author Louise Rennison.

Forks High School

It has recently received international attention, as it is featured in the young adult novel series Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.

Heavy Competition

Andy vows to be Jim's "traveling pants", a reference to the young adult novel series The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

Libby Hathorn

Hallmark Hall of Fame has made a movie of her best-selling young adult novel, Thunderwith, re-titled The Echo of Thunder.

Matt Zurbo

In 2004 Zurbo released his third young-adult novel, entitled Hot Nights, Cool Dragons which was a finalist for the 2004 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel but lost to Scott Westerfeld's The Secret Hour.

Melkorka

Melkorka is featured in the 2007 young adult novel Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale by author Donna Jo Napoli.

Perri Klass

She is the sister of screenwriter David Klass, with whom she has written the young adult novel Second Impact.

Summer and the City

Summer and the City is a young-adult novel written by Candace Bushnell.

The Elephant of Surprise

The Elephant of Surprise is a young adult novel by Brent Hartinger, the fourth volume in The Russel Middlebrook Series, which was published in March 2013.

The Sherwood Ring

The Sherwood Ring is a 1958 young adult novel by Elizabeth Marie Pope.

Tristan Bancks

His first Young Adult novel, It's Yr Life, co-written by former Home and Away actress and author Tempany Deckert, was released in June 2009.