young adult

The tag young adult is very popular among bloggers who review books for young adults and by people discussing young adult literature, such as parents, teachers, librarians, book award committees, and booksellers. Books for young adults are also commonly referred to as YA literature. The tag is also often used by the authors, illustrators, editors and publishers who create literature for young adults. There are many web sites, professional organizations, and courses dedicated to young adult literature.

It is generally thought that books referred to as Young Adult are for young readers age thirteen and above. Books for readers under thirteen are referred to as children's books. Young adult literature is most often categorized by genre, such as biography, fantasy & science fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

Regardless of how they are categorized, many books termed young adult literature are read and enjoyed by adults, such as the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “young adult”

• Scientists create ‘golden ear’ mouse with great hearing as it ages

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 10 (ANI): By crossing a mouse with poor hearing and a mouse with even worse hearing, scientists have successfully created a ‘golden ear’ mouse with great hearing as it ages.University of Rochester Medical Center scientists focussing on age-related hearing loss, or presbycusis, have for the first ...
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• The Everafter by Amy Huntley

  
  Violet Crush — Authority: 123
  Title: The Everafter Author: Amy Huntley Genre: Young Adult Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Balzer + Bray (September 29, 2009) Rating: 4.5 out of 5 About the book: (from Amazon) Madison Stanton doesn’t know where she is or how she got there. But she does know this—she is dead. And alone, in a vast, dark ...
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• Digital Short: Firelight – A Must See For All Twilight Fans

  
  Karin's Book Nook — Authority: 421
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• The romance of cyberspace

  
  Writer Unboxed — Authority: 512
  Our guest post today is by YA author Isabelle Merlin. For her line of romantic thrillers for teen girls, Merlin has used a variety of online interactive media such as websites, YouTubes, music downloads to engage her readers and make them a part of the story. Merlin agreed to guest post with WU to share [...]
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• Book Review & Giveaway: Blood Promise by Richelle Mead

  
  The Book Smugglers — Authority: 575
  Title: Blood Promise Author: Richelle Mead Genre: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Razorbill (Penguin) Publication Date: August 2009 Hardcover: 512 pages Stand alone or series: Book 4 in the ongoing Vampire Academy series How did I get this book: Review Copy from Publicist Why did I ...
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• New Moon / Stephenie Meyer

  
  Rat's Reading — Authority: 114
  Book Club of the Damned. That’s what Paul Constant over at the Stranger calls it when he reads an awful book on a dare. Well, that’s New Moon for me. I need bleach now. Spoilers abound here. I just don’t care enough about your enjoyment of this book to worry about spoiling it. Plus, if you haven’t ...
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• Tempted: Teen Drama that Delivers

  
  Fantasy Literature News & Interviews — Authority: 134
  Tempted by P.C. and Kristin Cast … if you’re looking for careful or beautiful prose that is rich in imagery, then House of Night isn’t likely to be your favorite series. But if you want a fun light read with memorable heroes and villains, and lots of teen drama and action, then this is a fine choice ...
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• A Northern Light ~ Jennifer Donnelly (& I made a trailer!)

  
  Tempting Persephone... — Authority: 117
  From the book… Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown asks her to burn a bundle of secret letters. But when Grace’s drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers the ...
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• Lost Days – Post 37 (Win a free laptop!)

  
  R.W. Ridley — Authority: 128
  Read a book! Win a laptop computer! This is the 37 th installment of my new book (launch is in about a week) Lost Days.  I hope you’ve been reading carefully because the answer to the qualifying question is in one of the previous posts. Qualifying question for what?  For your chance to win a free laptop ...
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• Review: The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness

  
  Medieval Bookworm — Authority: 429
  Todd Hewitt is nearly thirteen years old and has never seen a woman.  He knows what women look like, though, because he can see them in other men’s thoughts.  The ability to see thoughts – words and images – is called Noise, and all the men in his town have the same ability.  The Noise, a disease passed on by ...
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• Read Online Full – ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning’ By Lemony Snicket

  
  Randomize ME — Authority: 568
  Browse Inside this bookGet this for your siteBook Description:Dear Reader,I’m sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery ...
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• On The Smugglers’ Radar

  
  The Book Smugglers — Authority: 575
  For the past few months, we have been including an “On our Radar” section in our weekly stash for books that have caught our eye; books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. This is how the Smugglers’ Radar was born, and because there ...
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• Saturday Read: Going Bovine, by Libba Bray

  
  College Candy — Authority: 662
  When I first saw “ Going Bovine ” on Amazon.com , to be honest, I was a bit scared of the cover. A creepy cow carrying an equally creepy garden gnome? Needless to say, along with feeling frightened, I was also intrigued. “Going Bovine” tells the story of Cameron Smith, a 16-year-old loner and somewhat loser ...
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• Finding Adventists on Twitter

  
  A Sabbath Blog — Authority: 106
  By now, there are quite a few Seventh-day Adventists on Twitter. So weve created a list of some notable Adventist Twitter accounts. Click on the one of the categories to jump to that list. Click to view the list A Sabbath Blog on Twitter View all Twitter lists by A Sabbath Blog
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• The stories we read and write

  
  Day By Day Writer — Authority: 121
  Revision update: It’s coming along. I’m still working on the first eight chapters, where I split one chapter into two, and cut down the others a LOT. I still have some research to finish up that could mean I’ll be making changes, but I feel like I’m making some progress, although small steps. Would still love ...
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• Book Review, outside IN

  
  The Book Chook — Authority: 119
  One of our strongest human needs is to fit in. This drives so much behaviour, particularly in our teenage years. Do you remember feeling that everyone else was cool, confident and charismatic, while you didn’t even fit inside your own skin? I don’t think things are any different for Generation X, Y or Z: ...
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• Going Bovine

  
  Flamingo House Happenings — Authority: 125
  Not sure why I grabbed Going Bovine on audio, probably related to having just finished South of Broad on audio and feeling like something was missing by being in the car without an audio book. It was a good choice for audio. I think it was probably better in audio than I’d have found it if I’d read it in paper. ...
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• Alcatraz Versus The Knights of Crystallia: This proves I’m not YAnymore

  
  Fantasy Literature News & Interviews — Authority: 134
  Alcatraz Versus The Knights of Crystallia Alcatraz versus The Knights of Crystallia is Brandon Sanderson’s third book in this YA series and I have several confessions to make. One is that I haven’t read the first two Alcatraz books. The second is that I am not Y. Not even close. Usually, I don’t ...
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• HCFANY on H.R.3962

  
  HCFANY — Authority: 116
  This weekend the US House of Representatives is scheduled to debate and vote on H.R. 3962. This landmark piece of health reform legislation has the potential to provide health coverage access to millions of Americans. HCFANY has analyzed how this bill would affect New York. This analysis looks at several key ...
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• Review: An Off Year

  
  B O O K L U S T — Authority: 472
  Title:  An Off Year Author:  Claire Zulkey Publisher:  Dutton # of Pages:  213 Favorite Line:  "For the first time, you can do whatever you want as long as it feels like youre doing it because its you.  It takes a while to find out what that really means, of course.  Sometimes you think youre doing ...
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