trends in teen literature
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Presentation created by Becky O'Neil, Teen Librarian, for a class at Otterbein University taught by Dr. Erica Womack, October 22, 2014TRANSCRIPT
Trends in Teen Literature
Becky O’Neil Teen Librarian
Westerville Public [email protected]
Oct. 22, 2014
The John Green Effect
image source: Publishers’ Weekly
Remixed Classics
image sources: YALSA’s The Hub
Standalones (Trilogy fatigue)image source: Publishers’ Weekly
From bestseller to box-office
image source: CNN.com
TransmediaExamples:★ Chopsticks, by
Jessica Anthony (app)
★ We Were Liars, by E. Lockhart (pre-pub tumblr)
★ Skeleton Creek, by Patrick Carman (online videos)
★ 39 Clues series from Scholastic (online game & trading cards)
★ The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore (app)
Thoughts:★ The digital
divide: does the book function without the digital pieces? (can kids without the tech access enjoy it?)
★ Do the multiple platforms enhance or interrupt the story?
★ Would a pure ebook or app be better?
Teens’ Top Ten
Adults YA...but teens “New Adult”❤ ❤
★ Forever Young Adult (site for adult fans of YA books & pop culture)
★ What’s New About New Adult? (Horn Book - includes some New Adult titles)
★ Against YA (Slate - arguing that adults should be embarrassed to read YA - lots of good responses to this)
★ Lizzie Skurnick Books (bringing out-of-print YA fiction back to bookshelves)
image source: Forever Young Adult
Diversity’s new movement
image source: http://weneeddiversebooks.tumblr.com/
A few diverse / multicultural titles:We are a rainbow, by Nancy Maria Grande Tabor (picture book - moving to the U.S.)Who put the cookies in the cookie jar?, by George Shannon (picture book - globalization, cooperation)The color of home, by Mary Hoffman (picture book - moving to the U.S. after war in Somalia)The arrival, by Shaun Tan (graphic novel - mostly wordless story of an immigrant’s experience)In our mothers’ house, by Patricia Polacco (picture book - LGBTQI, adoptive interracial family)Mrs. Katz and Tush, by Patricia Polacco (picture book - friendship between old Jewish widow and young black boy)God’s dream, by Desmond Tutu (picture book - peace, empathy. I love this illustrator, LeUyen Pham, because she always includes children of different races, even if it’s not a “multicultural” book via the text)The breadwinner trilogy, by Deborah Ellis (juvenile fiction - under the Taliban, Parvana works as a boy)When I was the greatest, by Jason Reynolds (teen fiction - urban NY, brother with Tourettes, knitting (!). Check out this cover + Reynolds’ author photo if you think teen fiction is all big fancy dresses à la The Selection series. Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass, by Meg Medina (teen fiction - bullying, class conflict, ethnic identity)The crossover, by Kwame Alexander (teen fiction - verse novel, basketball, rap, twins, fathers and sons)If you could be mine, by Sara Farizan (teen fiction - Iran, LGBTQI, best friends)Ten things I hate about me, by Randa Abdel-Fattah (teen fiction - self-acceptance, cultural identity)Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi (graphic novel - growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution)Bridges to understanding: Envisioning the world through children’s books, ed. by Linda M. Pavonetti (2011 nonfiction resource - annotated bibliography, w/ descriptions of nearly 700 books representing more than 70 countries)Hearing all the voices: Multicultural books for adolescents, by Mary Ann Darby & Miki Pryne (2002 nonfiction resource - annotated bibliography of more than 500 books. See Culture Index on p. 239)
★ It’s not just print books!○ Books on CD○ Playaway (audiobooks on mp3 player)○ Playaway View (mini video player)○ Playaway Bookpacks (Playaway + Print Book)○ DVD movies, BluRay, music CDs○ Magazines for kids & teens (Otaku USA, MAD)○ Magazines for Parents & Teachers (School Library
Journal, VOYA - reviews popularity vs. quality)
Helpful Resources★ WPL’s Educator page★ Try our mobile app (or mobile web page - but the app
lets you check books out!)★ Reviews. Find them in Novelist, print magazines such
as School Library Journal & VOYA, Amazon, blogs★ Shelves. New & advanced books at the library,
bookstore★ The Hub teen lit blog from the Young Adult Library
Services Association★ Books about books (0.11-0.28 at the library)