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- Young adult novels, and movies based on those novels, have seen a popularity boom in the past decade, largely due to blockbusters like the Hunger Games series.
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Sep 18, 2018 · Looking to dig into a few YA movie adaptations, past or present? This list is your ultimate guide to the YA books made into movies through the end of 2018.
- Kelly Jensen
Sep 11, 2024 · This list compiles the best films ever made based on books for young adults. Be sure to vote for your favorites and move them up the list. Check back for new movies based on YA novels as they are released.
Jan 12, 2022 · Without further ado, here is every movie in which a bunch of good-looking twenty-somethings pretend to be teens for as long as it takes to save the world—ranked from worst to best. We are, as a society, very big on movie adaptations of YA novels.
- Alexandra Schonfeld
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. On Jan. 10, teens (and former teens) everywhere rejoiced when it was announced that Judy Blume's 1970 classic Are You There God?
- The Sun Is Also a Star. This 2019 film based on th ebook by Nicola Yoon tells the story of Natasha, played by Yara Shahidi, who falls in love with Charles Melton's Daniel in a single day after he saves her life on a New York City street — despite declaring she doesn't believe in love in the first place.
- To All the Boys I've Loved Before. In the first adaptation of Jenny Han's three-part series, To All the Boys I've Loved Before tells the story of what happens when one girl's secret childhood love letters are mailed out.
- The Hate U Give. In 2018's The Hate U Give, based on Angie Thomas' novel by the same name, high schooler Starr witnesses her childhood friend, Khalil, get shot and killed by police during a traffic stop.
- 9 The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants
- 8 Holes
- 7 The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- 6 Bridge to Terabithia
- 5 The Outsiders
- 4 Love, Simon
- 3 The Hate U Give
- 2 The Fault in Our Stars
- 1 The Perks of Being A Wallflower
Directed by Ken Kwapis,The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is based on a book by Ann Brashares and presents a sweet tale that’s one of the best movies about friendship.The movie stars four best friends (played by Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, and Amber Tamblyn) who are about to spend their first summer apart. After finding a pair ...
Louis Sachar’s book Holes, directed by Andrew Davis, presents a faithful adaptation, as Stanley (Shia LaBeouf) is wrongly convicted of stealing a valuable pair of shoes, and sent to dig holes at a juvenile detention camp in the desert. Flashbacks reveal that the camp is more than a detention center, home to buried treasure and a dark past. The movi...
The Miseducation of Cameron Post, based on the book by Emily Danforth, is directed by Desiree Akhavan and reflects the importance of freedom and identity. Cameron Post (Chloe Grace Moretz, in one of her best roles) is a teenager who gets caught with her girlfriend on homecoming night. Sent to a gay conversion camp by her religious aunt, Cameron mak...
Bridge to Terabithia, based on the book by Katherine Paterson, is another faithful adaptation that received positive reviews. Directed by Gábor Csupó, the film recreates all the wonder, love, and loss in the book. Jesse (Josh Hutcherson) is a normal boy who befriends Leslie (AnnaSophia Robb), an unusual girl. Together they create the magical world ...
The New Yorker credits S.E. Hinton’s book as the first specifically young adult novel, and Francis Ford Coppola’s film adaptation of The Outsidersperfectly captures its rebellious, heartbreaking spirit. The film centers around Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) and his role in a group of greasers in Oklahoma, who get involved with a rival group of rich kid...
Love, Simon is based on the novel Simon vs. the Home Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. According to Variety, this film adaptation, directed by Greg Berlanti, makes history as the first major studio film to center around a gay teenage romance. It’s historic, but it’s also a great teen movie with a classic feel that will appeal to anyone. Simon (Ni...
The Hate U Give, based on the book by Angie Thomas and directed by George Tillman Jr., doesn’t flinch away from its serious subject matter, exploring the aftermath when Starr’s (Amandla Stenberg) friend dies in a police shooting. Thrust into this situation, Starr must deal with the loss of her old friend and trouble with her new friends, all while ...
Directed by Josh Boone, the film adaptation of John Green’s book The Fault in Our Starsis a beautiful tearjerker that received major critical and commercial acclaim. Hazel (Shailene Woodley) is a teenage cancer patient who attends a support group for other teens with cancer. There she meets Augustus (Ansel Elgort), and the two begin a relationship ...
Based on the novel of the same name, The Perks of Being a Wallfloweris a gem that truly captures the teenage experience in a widely-praised film. Written and directed by the book’s author, Stephen Chbosky, the movie completely delivers on the book’s humor, romance, and emotions, while also sensitively dealing with its conflicts of mental health and...
YA Books into Movies. YA novels that will be/were/currently have plans to be made into films. Some have already been made, some are being made, and some are in the cross-your-fingers-that-they-get-made-and-don't-suck stage.
Apr 30, 2024 · 1. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. (Netflix) This light-hearted romance novel by Jenny Han focuses on the character of Lara Jean Covey, a high school student too afraid to share...
