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I Didn't Know the New James Patterson was a YA Novel!
A Crash Course in YA Literature for Adult Services Librarians
Carlie Webber, BCCLS Ilene Lefkowitz, Denville Free Public
Library
Where did all this YA come from, anyway?
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were
proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you
very much...
Ways to learn about YA lit:
Standard Professional Journals… • VOYA (voya.com)• School Library Journal • (schoollibraryjournal.com)• Kirkus (kirkusreviews.com)• Publishers Weekly (
www.publishersweekly.com)
Young Adult literature websites and blogs
• Readingrants.org• Slayground.net• Teenreads.com• theYAYAYAs• YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association)
• YPulse.com• A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy• BCCLS Teens
No time to read through those journals or sites?
Set up an RSS reader• Bloglines (bloglines.com)• Google Reader (google.com/reader)• Blogbridge (blogbridge.com)• Suprglu (suprglu.com)• Simply Headlines (simplyheadlines.com)• PageFlakes (pageflakes.com)• Netvibes (netvives.com)
For more information on setting up RSS feeds go here:
(http://librarygarden.pbwiki.com/Pete's+Favorites)
The gateway authors: Adult authors who also write great
YA
•Sherman Alexie•Charles de Lint•Carl Hiaasen•Alice Hoffman•Gwyneth Jones (writes YA as Ann
Halam)• Jacquelyn Mitchard• Joyce Carol Oates•Rick Riordan•Benjamin Alire Saenz
Gateway Authors
Gateway Authors
Authors who write YA that looks adult
• Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak; Catalyst)• M.T. Anderson (Feed; The Astonishing Life of Octavian
Nothing, Traitor to the Nation)• Holly Black (Tithe; Valiant)• Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty; Rebel Angels)• Garret Freymann-Weyr (Stay with Me, My Heartbeat)• John Green (Looking for Alaska, An Abundance
of Katherines)• Margo Lanagan (Black Juice; White Time)• Walter Dean Myers (Monster; Sunrise over Fallujah)• Scott Westerfeld (Uglies; Pretties; Specials; Extras)• Markus Zusak (I am the Messenger; The Book Thief)
Authors who write YA that looks adult
Authors who write YA that looks like adult
Going the other way: Adult books/authors with YA appeal
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
Time by Mark Haddon• Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Anything by Neil Gaiman, Christopher Moore, Jodi Picoult, Alexander McCall Smith, or Mercedes Lackey
Know about the Alex Awards! Ten adult books with high YA appeal are honored annually by YALSA.
Going the Other Way
Going the Other Way
Middle School fiction to recommend
Titles:Tangerine by Edward BloorOlive's Ocean by Kevin HenkesHoot by Carl HiaasenBlack Duck by Janet Taylor LisleHoles by Louis Sachar
Authors:
Christopher Paul Curtis (Bud Not Buddy; Bucking the Sarge)Nancy Farmer (The House of the Scorpion; The Sea of Trolls)Anthony Horowitz (Stormbreaker; Point Blank)Gary D. Schmidt (The Wednesday Wars; Trouble)Neal Shusterman (The Schwa was Here; Everlost)
Middle School
Titles
Picture this! (Graphic novels to know)
• The P.L.A.I.N. Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg
• most series by CLAMP• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi• Bone by Jeff Smith• Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya• Blankets by Craig Thompson• Runaways by Brian K. Vaughn• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen
Yang
So now comes the big question:
How do I get these books into the hands
of adult readers?
How to Hints/Suggestions
Book DisplaysDisplay YA titles alongside adult titlesDo YA displays for adults
BooklistsIncorporate YA titles into your booklists Readers' AdvisoryBooktalksHandselling, or, Let me get a book for you.Read-a-Like/Shelf Sitter cards
Collection Development Purchase duplicate copies - shelve in Adult Fiction
Selling Points for YA Books
• Quick reads• Smart characters• Fun to read • Series books are very hot right now,
so there's lots to read• Universal themes that appeal to
everyone regardless of age• High-quality writing.
REMEMBER
Young Adult literature is not all Eragon and Gossip Girl…
…any more than adult literature is all Danielle Steel and John Grisham.