by Michael Cart
on bleak books, 66, 67
on graphic novels, 169
on Harry Potter series, 96
on Nineties’ movies, 63
on Nineties’ television, 63–64
on Twilight series, 99
Time Warner/AOL, 92
“The Times They Are a-Changin’” (song), 24
Tintin (comic strip), 169
Toffler, Alvin, 48
Tokoyopop (publisher), 173
Tom Swift series, 8, 20n Tomás Rivera Award, 127
Tomine, Adrian, 168
Tommy Stands Alone (Velasquez), 158
Too Bad about the Haines Girl (Sherburne), 143
Top One Hundred Countdown list, 54
Top Shelf (publisher), 168
Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults list, 85
TOR (publisher), 91
Tower Records, 64
Townsend, John Rowe, 2
Trainspotting (movie), 65
Trainspotting (Welsh), 65
transgender literature. See GLBT
Transworld Skateboarding magazine, 63
The Tree of Life (Sis), 113
Trial (Bryant), 87
A Tribe Apart (Hersch), 64, 130
True Believer (Wolff), 80, 86
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (Scieszka and Smith), 112
Tsubasa (Clamp), 174
ttfn (Myracle), 194
ttyl (Myracle), 194
TTYL series, 161
Tucker, Paul, 49–50
Tullson, Diane, 134
Tunis, John R., 10, 11
Twilight (Meyer), 99, 177
Twilight (movie), 100
Twilight series, 99–100
Twisted (Anderson), 134, 135
Two and the Town (Felsen), 142, 143
u
Uchida, Yoshiko, 44
Uglies series, 103
Uncle Vampire (Grant), 145
Under the Wolf, Under the Dog (Rapp), 138
University College London, 192
University of Michigan, 131
University of Virginia, 197
University of Wisconsin, 125
Unsettled (Aronson), 182
Up in Seth’s Room (Mazer), 145
U.S. New and World Report, 66
USA Today, 91, 99
The Usual Rules (Maynard), 135
v
V for Vendetta (Moore and Lloyd), 168
V for Victor (Childress), 112
vampire romance subgenre, 98–101
Van Draanen, Wendelin, 108
vandalism (YA book theme), 66
Velasquez, Gloria, 158Verne, Jules, 101
verse novels, 87
Vicki Barr series, 10
video games, 131, 132
Viking (publisher), 112, 118
violence
bullying and, 132–136
dating violence, 148
desensitization to, 132
in Nineties, 67
rape as, 148
as reality of life, 131–132
as risky behavior, 130
Virgin Atlantic, 64
Visions (Gallo), 82
Viz (publisher), 168, 173
vocational guidance movement, 4
Voices from the Future (Goodwillie), 55
Voigt, Cynthia, 41, 145, 146
Volin, Eva, 177
von Ziegesar, Cecily, 93
Voting Rights Act (1965), 44
VOYA magazine, 67, 168
w
Waddle, Linda, 69, 181
Wait for Mercy (du Jardin), 14
Walden, Amelia Elizabeth, 68
Walker, Kate, 158
Walker, Robert Paul, 158
The Wall (Sis), 113
Wall Street Journal, 66, 99, 100
Wal-Mart, 127
Walpole, Horace, 101
Walter, Virginia, 65
Ware, Chris, 169
Warner Brothers, 96
Warren, Robert, 53, 54
Warren, Robert Penn, 84
Washington Post, 91, 99, 189–190
Watchmen (Moore and Gibbons), 167
Waters, Daniel, 101
Watson, C. J., 134
Watson, Jude, 195
Waverly (Scott), 104
The Way Things Work (Macaulay), 60
WB television network, 63
We All Fall Down (Cormier), 31
Weeping Willow (White), 145
Weetzie Bat series, 60, 75, 113, 157, 158
“The Welcome” (Donoghue), 159
Wells, H. G., 101
Wells, Helen, 10
Welsh, Irvine, 65
Werlin, Nancy, 107
Wersba, Barbara, 54
Wertham, Frederick, 167
Westerfeld, Scott, 103, 200
Whale Talk (Crutcher), 123
What Are My Rights? (Jacobs), 66
What Are You? (Gaskins), 124
What Happened to Mr. Forster? (Bargar), 156
What Hearts (Brooks), 83
What’s in a Name? (Wittlinger), 83
Whedon, Joss, 175
When Jeff Comes Home (Atkins), 146
When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune (Williams), 149
When She Hollers (Voight), 145
When She Was Good (Mazer), 65, 68
When the Rain Sings (Francis), 85
Whitbread Book of the Year, 104
Whitbread Prize, 104
The White Darkness (McCaughrean), 78, 79
White House Conference on Children and Youth, 17
White, Ruth, 145
Whitechurch (Lynch), 83
Who Do You Think You Are? (Rochman), 82
Who Framed Lorenzo Garcia (Hamilton), 158
whole-language movement, 57
Wickenden, Dan, 22
The Wild One (movie), 18
Wild Rose Inn series, 50
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 47
Wildfire series, 39
William C. Morris First Book Award, 79, 127
Williams, Lori Aurelia, 149
Willingham, Daniel T., 197
Wilson, Martin, 160
Winerip, Michael, 94, 108, 117
Winfrey, Oprah, 50, 108, 150
Winick, Judd, 183
Wise Up to Teens (Zollo), 64
Witch Baby (Block), 158
Wittlinger, Ellen, 76, 83, 159, 194
Wojciechowska, Maia, 26
Wolf, Naomi, 94, 192
Wolfe, Thomas, 22
Wolff, Tobias, 82
Wolff, Virginia Euwer, 41, 80, 86
Wonder Woman (Marston), 172
Wonder Woman (tv show), 172
Wooding, Chris, 200
Woods, George, 26, 28
Woods, Tiger, 124
Woodson, Jacqueline, 127, 145, 146, 155,
158, 160
World Almanac (publisher), 177
The World of Ellen March (Eyerly), 33
A Wreath for Emmett Till (Nelson), 80, 87, 128
Wuthering Heights (Bronte), 101
Wynne-Jones, Tim, 83
x
X (Clamp), 174
Xerox Educational Publications, 143
x-Over. See crossover books
xxxHolic (Clamp), 174
y
Yale University Press, 176
YALSA. See Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
Yang, Gene Luen, 78, 128, 171
Yankelovitch research company, 189
yaoi (shojo form), 174
A Year Down Yonder (Peck), 83, 107
The Year of Secret Assignments (Moriarty), 194
The Year They Burned the Books (Garden), 161
Yearling Books series, 40
Yen Press (publisher), 177
Yep, Laurence, 44–45, 127
YM magazine, 63
Yoke, Beth, 196
Yolen, Jane, 38–39, 47
You Hear Me? (Franco), 85
Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
Alex Awards, 121–122, 128, 177
book award for young adults, 68–70
on comic strips, 165
electronic book forum, 65
graphic novel preconference, 170
Great Graphic Novels for Teens list, 170
“How Adult Is Young Adult?” program, 55
nonfiction books and, 183–184
Odyssey Award, 198, 199, 200
Popular Paperbacks Committee, 170
Quick Pick List, 82
Serving New Adults Interest Group, 120
teen demographics, 201
Teen Tech Week, 195
Teens’ Top Ten List, 126, 184
William C. Morris First Book Award, 79, 127
word preconference, 181
YA Literature Symposium, 191
YA-focused blog, 196
See also Best Books for Young Adults List (YALSA); Margaret A. Edwards Award; Michael L. Printz Award
young adult literature
categorizing, 7–19, 60, 119–121
decline in titles, 53–56
defined, 3–5
revival of, 57–59
Young Adult Novel (Pinkwater), 35
Young Adults’ Choices list, 128
Young Romance (comic book), 172
Your Hit Parade (radio show), 13
Your Own Sylvia (Hemphill), 80, 87
Youth Marketing Company, 13, 40
Youth Runs Wild (movie), 18
Ypulse Mashup event, 196
z
Zach (Bell), 123
Zephaniah, Benjamin, 126
Zim, Herbert S., 180
Zindel, Paul, 28, 30, 54, 138, 143
Zollo, Peter, 64
Zolotow, Charlotte, 41
Zombie Blondes (James), 101
zombie books, 101
Zuckerman, Linda, 53
Zusak, Markus, 80, 106, 115
Zvirin, Stephanie, 65
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