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index
a
A List series, 93, 94
Abby, My Love (Irwin), 145
ABDO (publisher), 177
Abedel-Fattah, Randa, 134
abortion (YA book theme), 30, 33, 143–144
Abrahams, Peter, 108
Abrahamson, Richard F., 121, 122, 181
Abrams (publisher), 92, 171
Abramson, Jane, 33–34
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie), 175
Academy of American Poets, 84
Action Comics #1 (comic book), 166
Adolescence (Hall), 4
adolescence, as term, 4–7
Adoration of Jenna Fox (Pearson), 103
Adult Books for Young People reading list, 9
African-Americans
anthologies by, 85
in GLBT novels, 155
in romance YA literature, 50
in Sixties’ literature, 44
tracking books by/on, 125–126
After the First Death (Cormier), 31
The Age of Bronze (Shanower), 170
AIDS, 142, 156, 158
Akbar, Said Hyder, 128
Aladdin (publisher), 34, 92
alcohol abuse (YA book theme), 66, 130, 131
Alcott, Louisa May, 8
The Aldrich Family (radio show), 6
Alex Awards, 121–122, 128, 177
Alex Rider series, 108
Alexie, Sherman, 118, 128, 175
Alfred Harcourt (publisher), 11
Alger, Horatio, Jr., 8
Alia’s Mission (Stamaty), 128
Alice in Wonderland, 102
Alice series, 161
alienation (YA book theme), 64
All I Want Is Truth (Partridge), 80
All Star Comics No. 8 (comic book), 172
Allen, Rachel J., 175
Allende, Isabel, 117
Alliance for Excellent Education, 189–190
Alloy Entertainment, 93, 94
Alloy Media + Marketing, 94, 175
Alm, Richard S., 22, 24
Almond, David, 76, 78, 83, 103
alternative audience, 64
alternative comics. See graphic novels Alvarez, Julia, 118
Am I Blue? (Bauer), 159
Amazon.com, 65, 127, 193
The Amber Spyglass (Pullman), 104
The Amboy Dukes (Shulman), 18
Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award, 69, 195
America (Frank), 130
American Academy of Pediatrics, 132
American Bookseller publication, 61
American Born Chinese (Yang), 78, 79, 128, 171
American Dragons (Yep), 44
American Girl series, 50
American Graffiti (movie), 38
American Library Association
Annual Conference and Exhibition, 59, 65, 75
Best Books for Young Adults List, 48, 68, 87
comics preconference, 165
National Poetry Month, 84
Odyssey Award, 198, 199, 200
Office of Intellectual Freedom, 161
on sexual content in books, 142
Social Responsibilities Roundtable, 44
Young People’s Reading Roundtable, 8
youth-serving division, 7, 42
American Sports Poems (Knudson and Swenson), 84
Americas Award, 45, 127
An Na, 78, 128
Anaya, Rudolfo, 45, 47
Anderson, Laurie Halse, 76, 134, 135, 139, 148
Anderson, M. T., 79–80, 103, 106
Anderson, Sherwood, 81
Andrews, V. C., 146
Anelli, Melissa, 97
Angel (tv show), 63
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging (Rennison), 89
Annie on My Mind (Garden), 156, 157, 159
anthologies, 82–85
Anthology of Graphic Fiction (Brunetti), 176
anti-bullying technique, 135
Appelt, Kathi, 83
Appleton, Victor, 20n Apt, Vicki, 50
Are You in the House Alone? (Peck), 54, 145
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret (Blume), 31
Arizona Kid (Koertge), 157
The Arizona Kid (Koertge), 86
The Ark (Benary-Isbert), 19
Armstrong, Jennifer, 50
Armstrong, Joyce, 108
Aronson, Marc, 53, 58, 59, 69, 124, 135, 182, 183, 188
arson, 66
Arte Público (publisher), 46, 127
Ashabranner, Brent, 181
Asher, Jay, 134
Asian Americans, 44–45, 85, 125–126
Asimov, Isaac, 180
assault (teenage behavior), 66
Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN), 58, 69
Association of American Publishers, 91
Association of Library Service for Children, 183, 198
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl (Lyga), 176
Atheneum (publisher), 41
Athletic Shorts (Crutcher), 83, 159, 161
Atkins, Catherine, 146
Atlantic Monthly publication, 85, 192
Atwater, Montgomery, 10
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia, 101
Au Pairs series, 94
Audio Publishers Association, 197
audiobooks, 197–200
Auster, Paul, 168
Avon (publisher), 91, 168
Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults, 184
b
Baby Bebop (Block), 158
Babysitter’s Club series, 177
Bait (Sanchez), 146
Banks, Lynn Reid, 48
Bantam (publisher), 39, 50
Bantam Doubleday Dell (publisher), 50
Banyai, Isttvan, 112
Bargar, Gary W., 156
Barker, Clive, 117
Barnes & Noble bookstore chain
chick lit genre, 90
e-book reader, 194
multicultural books, 127
online sales, 65
shelving policies, 59
as superstore, 52, 61
Barr, Donald, 46
Barrie, J. M., 27
Barry, Dave, 117
Baseball in April (Soto), 83
Bauer, Joan, 62, 130
Bauer, Marion Dane, 159
Bauerlein, Mark, 192
BBYA list. See Best Books for Young Adults List (ALA); Best Books for Young Adults List (YALSA)
Bechdol, Alison, 175
Bee and Jackie (Coman), 146
Beers, Kylene, 199
Bell, William, 123
Benary-Isbert, Margot, 19
Benedetti, Angelina, 116
Benson & Benson research company, 12
Benton, Lori, 57
Berck, Judith, 55
Berkeley Public Library (California), 168
Berry, Halle, 124
Best American Comics, 176
Best American series, 176
Best Books for Young Adults (Carter), 184
Best Books for Young Adults List (ALA)
multiculturalism in, 48
nonfiction in, 184
poetry in, 87
realism fiction in, 68
sexual content and, 145
Best Books for Young Adults
List (YALSA)
crossover books and, 112
nonfiction in, 184
poetry in, 84
Printz Award and, 70, 80–81
story stories in, 82
YA titles in, 31–32, 59
Better Than Life (Pennac), 199
Beverly Hills 90210 (tv show), 63, 93
Beyond the Chocolate War (Cormier), 41
Bickers, James, 179
Bill Haley and His Comets, 18
Billman, Carol, 8
biographies and memoirs, 87
bisexuality. See GLBT Black and White (Macaulay), 112
Black Juice (Lanagan), 80, 83
Blackboard Jungle (movie), 18
Blake, William, 76
bleak books subgenre, 64–67
Bless Me, Ultima (Anaya), 47
Blind Date (Stine), 40
Block, Francesca Lia, 41, 60, 75, 83, 113, 114, 145, 146, 157, 158, 159–160
Blood and Chocolate (Klause), 68, 100
Bloomsbury (publisher), 96, 126
The Blue Lawn (Taylor), 158
Blumberg, Rhoda, 182, 183
Blume, Judy, 31, 82, 144–145, 161
Bobbsey Twins series, 8, 20n Bobby Sox (comic strip), 13
Bode, Janet, 182
The Body of Christopher Creed (Plum-Ucci), 107
Bolle, Sonya, 100
Bone series, 171
Bonham, Frank, 25
Bonnie Jo, Go Home (Eyerly), 33, 144
Boock, Paula, 158
Book Expo America (BEA), 176–177
Book Guild of Washington, 183
Book Industry Study Group, 92
Book Links publication, 198
Book of the Month Club, 92, 114
book packagers, 93–94
The Book Thief (Zusak), 80, 106
Booklist magazine
Alex Awards and, 122
on bullying, 133
Carte Blanche column in, 58
crossover book reviews, 120
on e-books, 194, 195
graphic novels and, 177
Booklist magazine (cont.)
Harry Potter series reviews, 97
on nonfiction books, 181
Odyssey Award, 198
Printz Award and, 69
on realism fiction, 65
Books and the Teen-age Reader (Carlsen), 23
Books of Ember series, 103
Borders bookstore chain, 90, 127, 169, 201
Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, 183
Bott, C. J., 134–135
Bourke-White, Margaret, 180
Bowen, Brenda, 91
Boy Meets Boy (Levithan), 160
Boy Toy (Lyga), 163
The Boy Who Couldn’t Die (Sleator), 101
Boylan, Jennifer Finney, 160
Boyle, Danny, 65
Boyle, T. C., 118
Boylston, Helen, 9
boyology, 6
Bradburn, Frances, 69
The Braid (Frost), 87
Brando, Marlon, 18
Branley, Franklyn, 180
Brashares, Anne, 95
Braun, Linda, 188–189
Bray, Libba, 78, 95
Breaking Dawn (Meyer), 99
Breaking Up (Friedman and Norrie), 171
Breaking Up (Klein), 156
Breathing Underwater (Flinn), 149
Brenner, Robin, 177
Brian, Kate, 95
Bridgers, Sue Ellen, 41
“A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune” (Crutcher), 159
Brilliance Audio, 198
Brill’s Content, 66
The Brimstone Journals (Koertge), 87, 133–134
BroDart (distributor), 176
Brontë sisters, 101
Bronx Masquerade (Grimes), 87
Brooks, Bruce, 41, 83
Brooks, Kevin, 108
Brown, Jennifer, 134
Bruchac, Joseph, 105, 128
Brunetti, Ivan, 176
Bryan, Ashley, 44
Bryant, Jen, 87
Buck, Bethany, 150
Buell, Marjorie Henderson, 172
The Buffalo Tree (Rapp), 65
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv show), 63
Bullard, Sarah, 43
The Bully in the Book and in the Classroom (Bott), 135
bullying (teenage behavior), 132–136
Bullyville (Prose), 135
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (Cormier), 31, 41
Bunn, Scott, 34, 35, 145
Burch, Christian, 160
Burd, Nick, 160
Burgess, Melvin, 163
Burned (Hopkins), 87
Burton, Dwight L., 22
Bush, Laura, 108
c
Cabot, Meg, 95
Cademon Records, 197
Caldecott Medal, 112–113, 183
Calling All Girls magazine, 13
Calvino, Italo, 55
Cameron, Peter, 118
Campbell, Patty, 58, 59, 62
Canton, Jeffrey, 115
Capstone (publisher), 177
Card, Orson Scott, 101–102, 177
Cardcaptor Sekura (Clamp), 174
The Caretaker Trilogy (Klass), 103
Carey, Mariah, 124
Carlsen, G. Robert, 19, 23–24
Carlson, Lori, 84, 85
Carlyles series, 93
Carman, Patrick, 195
Carnegie Medal, 103, 115
Carpenter, Dave, 91
Carr, Nicholas, 192, 193
Carrey, Jim, 114
Cart, Michael, 117, 135, 155, 160
Carter, Betty, 111, 121, 181, 184
Carter, Lynda, 172
cartoonists, 166, 169, 171–172, 175–176
Carus, Marianna, 135
Carus Publishing (publisher), 182
Carvajal, Doreen, 90
Carver, Raymond, 82
The Case of the Missing Mother (Hamilton), 158
Castellucci, Cecil, 175
The Castle of Otranto (Walpole), 101
Cat Royal series, 108
The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), 27–28
Cathy’s Book (Stewart), 195
Cavanna, Betty, 14, 38
Celebutantes series, 94
censorship, 160–164
Census Bureau, 123–124, 188
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 131, 133, 148, 151
Chabon, Michael, 118, 175
Chambers, Aidan, 78, 106, 156, 159
Chandra’s Secrets (Stratton), 157
Chapa, Jorge, 124
Character Education Partnership, 135
Charbonnet, Gabrielle, 118
Charmed (tv show), 63
Chbosky, Stephen, 92, 146
Cheever, John, 82
Cherry Ames series, 10
chick lit, 51, 89–90, 93–95
Chicken House (publisher), 108
Chiggers (Larsen), 171
Child of the Owl (Yep), 44
Childhood and Society (Erikson), 6–7
Childhood of Famous Americans series, 177
Children’s Book of the Month Club, 114
Children’s Book Press (publisher), 46, 127
Children’s Literature Association, 58
Children’s Literature Association Quarterly,60
Childress, Alice, 30, 32, 44, 141
Childress, Mark, 112
Chin, Frank, 43
Chinese Handcuffs (Crutcher), 137
Chobits (Clamp), 174
The Chocolate War (Cormier), 30–32, 34, 161
Cianciolo, Patricia J., 179
Cimarron (Ferber), 9
Cinco Puntos Press (publisher), 127
Cisneros, Sandra, 43, 45
City Lights (publisher), 64
City of Glass (Auster), 168
Clamp (manga studio), 174
Clark, Anne Nolan, 19
Clark, Larry, 65
Class Dismissed (Glenn), 84
Clay (Almond), 103
Clinton, Hillary, 108
Clique
series, 94
Clowes, Daniel, 168, 169
Clueless (movie), 63
Clueless (tv show), 63
cognitive development, 7
Cold New World (Finnegan), 64
Cole, Brock, 41, 65, 139, 152
Collins, Max Allan, 168
Collins, Susan, 103
Columbine (Cullen), 133
Columbine High School shootings, 67, 131–133
Coman, Carolyn, 139, 146
Come Back to Afghanistan (Akbar), 128
Comenius, Bishop, 179
Comic Codes Authority, 167
comics
adolescence and, 6, 13
beginnings, 165–167
coming of age, 167–170
current market, 176–179
Eisner Awards, 170, 177
libraries and, 170–172
manga, 173–175
rising interest in, 169
romance genre and, 172
See also graphic novels
complexity, plot, 79
computer literacy, 191–192
Connections (Gallo), 82
The Contender (Lipsyte), 29, 143
A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories (Eisner), 167
Cool Salsa (Carlson), 84
Cooper, Ilene, 65
Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), 125
Coraline (Gaiman), 101, 177
Corbett, Sue, 116
Coretta Scott King Awards, 44, 127, 136
Cormier, Robert, 30–32, 34, 41, 60, 65, 108, 113, 114, 141, 161
Cornish, Sarah, 79
CosmoGirl magazine, 63
Cosmopolitan magazine, 15
Cotler, Joanna, 169
Council on Interracial Books for Children, 39
couture in YA books, 94
Coville, Bruce, 83
Craig, Amanda, 115, 117
Crain, Caleb, 193
Crane, Stephen, 81
Crank (Hopkins), 87
Crash Club (Felsen), 18
Craven, Wes, 50
criticism of YA literature
Abramson and, 33–34
Burton and, 22
defining literary merit, 77–80
Egoff and, 32
Jennings and, 22–23
Rafferty and, 27
Crosses (Stoehr), 134
crossover books
articles about, 116–117
Block on, 60
conundrum about, 111–122
diversity and, 128
in genre fiction, 95
GLBT content in, 159
marketing, 113–117
picture books, 112–113
in realism genre, 64–67
Crowell (publisher), 180
Crown (publisher), 180
Crumb, R., 167
Cruse, Howard, 168
Crutcher, Chris, 41, 83, 123, 137, 159, 161
Cullen, Dave, 133
Cunningham, Sean, 50
Cures for Heartbreak (Rabb), 83, 116, 119
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Haddon), 114–115
CW television network, 94
cyberbullying, 134–135
