Teen Books for Adult Readers Presented by Colleen Olinger and Rachel Crowe

A Brief History of YA 1960’s1970’s1980’s

Harry Potter and the Mass Appeal

The YA Explosion

Barnes and Noble Young Adult Section

Appeal Factors Emotional Immediacy Diversity Parent Factor Book To Movie Crossover Authors Themes

Identity Sexuality Mental/physical illness Addiction/substance abuse Interpersonal/familial relations Abuse Coming of age

YA or Adult?

Tandy Angel struggles to remember key details about her passionate love affair with the handsome son of a family enemy while tackling two cases including a wrongful homicide charge against her brother and a series of murders occurring on New York's Upper West Side.

“No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.”

Anax thinks she knows history. Her grueling all-day Examination has just begun, and if she passes, she’ll be admitted into the Academy-the elite governing institution of her utopian society. But Anax is about to discover that for all her learning, the history she’s been taught isn’t the whole story. And the Academy isn’t what she believes it to be.

“I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music, but still having form and melody.”

American Rebecca Porter was never one for fairy-tales. Her twin sister Lacey was always the romantic, the one who daydreamed of being a princess. But it’s adventure-seeking Bex who goes to Oxford and meets dreamy Nick across the hall – and thus Bex who accidentally finds herself in love with the eventual heir to the British throne.

“People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.”

When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane.

“I’m always finding humans at their best and worse. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both”

Books to Movies It’s Kind of a Funny Story The Hunger Games series The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Beautiful Creatures The Book Thief The Fault in Our Stars Vampire Academy The Maze Runner series The Divergent series The Giver Z for Zachariah Paper Towns Seventh Son Me and Earl and the Dying Girl The Duff I Know What You Did Last Summer The Princess Diaries The Harry Potter series Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants The Chronicles of Narnia series Eragon The Twilight Saga series Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Inkheart City of Ember Percy Jackson & the Olympians series The Vampire’s Assistant I Am Number Four Beastly

Books to recommend (or read yourself!)

If you like Contemporary Fiction… Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson The Sweetness of Salt by Cecilia Galante

If you like Speculative Fiction… Skin Hunger by Kathleen Duey The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Sources 30 Young Adult Books Every Actual Adult Should Read: The Eight Best YA Books-And Why Grownups Should Read Them, Too: that-grownups-should-read 100 Young Adult Books to Read in a Lifetime: Young Adult Books You Want to Read: to-read