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- Psychologists Robert James Havighurst and Erik Erikson’s works in 1950 defined stages of human development, defining two stages called “adolescence” and “young adulthood” as “thirteen through eighteen and nineteen through thirty (Havighurst) and twelve through eighteen and nineteen through forty (Erikson)” (Ibid 7).
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Apr 10, 2015 · Though young adult literature has arguably existed since at least Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series, which was published in the 1930s, teachers and librarians were slow to accept books for teenagers as a genre.
Sep 20, 2024 · Young adult (YA) books, especially fictional works, are typically written in the voice of or from the perspective of a teenager, and they are characterized by their authors’ efforts to capture the experience of adolescence.
Oct 15, 2013 · “Just like adolescence is between childhood and adulthood, paranormal, or other, is between human and supernatural,” said Jennifer Lynn Barnes, a young adult author, Ph.D. and cognitive ...
Literature written for young people aged 11 to 18 and books marked as "young adult" by a publisher Literature including a teenager who is the main character and, as the center of the plot, engages in problems related to and relatable to the lives of teenagers
Jan 5, 2019 · Campbell (Campbell’s Scoop: Reflections on Young Adult Literature, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, 2010) writes, ‘the central theme of most YA fiction is becoming an adult, finding the answer to the internal and external question, “Who am I and what am I going to do about it?”’ (p. 70).
- Melanie Ramdarshan Bold
- 2019
Huck Finn is perhaps the first western novel of adolescence to deal with the search for identity, which is today a standard of young adult novels (Hilton and Nikolajeva 4). These novels communicate that adolescents are capable of making social change, and became a basis for future young adult novels.
Mar 10, 2017 · Apart from a few exceptions like J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951), young people in their adolescence had to jump straight to books written for adults. S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders came out in 1967, and publishers began waking up to the untapped teenage audience.
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