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Suzanne Fisher Staples
After spending more than a decade as a journalist in South Asia, Suzanne Fisher Staples turned to writing realistic novels about young people coming of age in modern Pakistan, …
Sharon M. Draper
Known for her commitment to excellence in education, Sharon Draper was named National Teacher of the Year in 1997. In 1994 her first novel, Tears of a Tiger, was published, and …
Declarations of Independence
Female empowerment—especially among girls—is one of the most significant issues to come out of the 90's, and one that will continue to play a significant role in the new …
Graham Salisbury
Graham Salisbury, winner of the Scott O'Dell and Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, grew up in Hawaii during the 1950's, and the lion's share of his fiction is set there. He writes …
Mixed Heritage in Young Adult Literature
Mixed-heritage people are one of the fastest-growing groups in the United States, yet culturally they have been largely invisible, especially in young adult literature. Mixed …
The Agony and the Eggplant
The Agony and the Eggplant is the first book-length study of author, illustrator, and radio personality, Daniel Pinkwater. Pinkwater began writing and illustrating children's books …
Donna Jo Napoli
Donna Jo Napoli has received acclaim for her young adult works and is especially known for her historical novels and her retellings of myth and fairy tales. In this full-length …
Norma Fox Mazer
Examines the life of Norma Fox Mazer and explores her love for writing, her perspective on literary history, her relationship with her family, and how she achieved her success.
Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths
Girls series books have been popular since the early 1840s, when books about Cousin Lucy, a young girl who learns about the world around her, first appeared. Since then, scores of …
Jacqueline Woodson
Woodson's seventh grade English teacher returned her first short story to her with the comment, "You are the real thing." This work explores how Woodson became "the real thing," …
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Adult
Young adults often struggle with confusion or guilt because they perceive themselves as different from others, especially their peers. For some of these individuals, the arts can …
Karen Hesse
This biocritical review focuses on Karen Hesse, whose work, Out of the Dust, won the Newbery Medal in 1998, and was awarded a "Genius" fellowship by the MacArthur Foundation - one …