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Point Horror
''Point Horror'' is a series of young adult literature, young adult horror fiction books. The series was most popular among teenagers.Coles, Martin. Hall, Christine. ''Children's Reading Choices''. Routledge, 1998, p 46. History The ''Point Horror'' series was launched in 1991 by Scholastic Corporation, Scholastic Inc, with the publisher re-releasing several of its previous titles under the ''Point Horror'' banner. Authors who published under the label of ''Point Horror'' include R.L. Stine, L.J. Smith (author), Diane Hoh, Richie Tankersley Cusick, Christopher Pike (author), Christopher Pike, and Caroline B. Cooney.Reynolds, Kimberly. ''Frightening Fiction''. Continuum, 2004, pgs 20-44. The series was notable as ''Blind Date'' was one of R.L. Stine's first works and helped launch his career. After an eight-year absence, Scholastic announced their plan to release three new titles in May 2013, with more to follow later in the year. Literary criticism While the ''Point Horror'' seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Adult Literature
Young adult literature (YA) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as family dysfunction, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality. It is characterized by simpler world building than adult literature as it seeks to highlight the experiences of adolescents in a variety of ways. There are various genres within young adult literature. The earliest known use of term ''young adult'' occurred in 1942. Prior to the 1930s teenagers, adolescents and young adults were still considered children in society. Following the recognition of teenagers as a distinct group of people, the designation of young adult literature was developed by librarians to help teenagers make the transition between children's literature and adult literature. According to a study conducted in 2023, 55% of young adult literature consumers were over 18 years of age. 78% of adult consumers purchased with the intent to read themselves. Of these adult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prom Dress (novel)
Lael Jensen Littke (born 1929) is an American author of young adult literature and around 75 short stories. Biography Littke grew up in Mink Creek, Idaho and studied education and English at Utah State University. While working in Denver, Colorado as a secretary, she met her husband George through their local congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They moved to New York City, where she attended the City College of New York and her husband studied at New York University. They moved to California with their young daughter, Lori, when George was hired to teach political science at California State University, Los Angeles. Littke would teach at Pasadena City College and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her husband died in 1991. Her first published pieces were for the ''Relief Society Magazine'', ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'', ''Ladies’ Home Journal'', and '' Seventeen''. She later began writing books, including titles for young adu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Bennett (author) ''
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Jill Bennett may refer to: * Jill Bennett (British actress) (1926–1990) * Jill Bennett (American actress) (born 1975) * Jill Bennett, character in ''Knots Landing ''Knots Landing'' is an American primetime television soap opera that aired on CBS from December 27, 1979, to May 13, 1993. A spin-off of ''Dallas (TV series), Dallas'', it was set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles and initially cente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Pullman
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy ''His Dark Materials''. The first volume, ''Northern Lights'' (1995), won the Carnegie Medal(Carnegie Winner 1995) . Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. . Retrieved 9 July 2012. and later the " Carnegie of Carnegies". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Greenland
Colin Greenland (born 17 May 1954) is a British science fiction writer, whose first story won the second prize in a 1982 Faber & Faber competition. His best-known novel is '' Take Back Plenty'' (1990), winner of both major British science fiction awards, the 1990 British SF Association award and the 1991 Arthur C. Clarke Award, as well as being a nominee for the 1992 Philip K. Dick Award for the best original paperback published that year in the United States. Biography Colin Greenland attended Pembroke College, Oxford, eventually earning a BA, MA (1978), and DPhil (1981). Greenland's first published book, which was based on his DPhil dissertation, was a critical look at the New Wave entitled '' The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction'' (1983). His most successful fictional work is the '' Plenty series'' that starts with ''Take Back Plenty'' and continues with ''Seasons of Plenty'' (1995), ''The Plenty Principle'' (1997) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Nicholls
Stan Nicholls (born 1949) is a British author and journalist, working full-time since 1981. He is the author of many novels and short stories but is best known for the '' Orcs: First Blood'' series. Career His journalism has appeared in ''The Guardian'', ''The Independent'', ''The Daily Mirror'', '' Time Out'', ''Sight and Sound'', ''Rolling Stone'', '' SFX'' and '' Locus'' among many others. Nicholls has worked for a number of specialists and general book shops including Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed and was the first manager of the London branch of Forbidden Planet. Following on from ''Weapons of Magical Destruction, Part Two'' in the ''Bad Blood'' series, ''Army of Shadows'' was released in October 2009. The final book in the trilogy, ''Bad Blood: Inferno'', was released in December 2011. A graphic novel set in the ''Orcs'' universe was set for release in 2010 or 2011. Awards The first two books in the ''Orcs: First Blood'' series, ''Bodyguard of Lightning'' and ''Legion o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Rose
Malcolm Rose (born 1953) is a British young adult author. Many of his books, including the ''Traces'' and ''Lawless and Tilley'' series, are mysteries or thrillers where the hero uses science to catch the criminal or terrorist. Biography Malcolm Rose was born in Coventry in 1953. He studied chemistry at the University of York. Before 1996 Malcolm was a Chemistry lecturer for the Open University and many of his books have a chemistry connection. While working as a lecturer, Malcolm was also writing several of his earlier books (''Rift, The OBTUSE Experiment, The Higher Form of Killing, Son of Pete Flude'') and now although mainly an author he still does some chemistry lectures and visits schools. He is married to wife, Barbara, and has a son, Colin, born 1982. As well as writing, Malcolm regularly makes visits to schools, libraries and various other venues. Awards and commendations The first book of the ''Traces'' series, ''Framed!'', has been selected by the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Price
Susan Price (born 8 July 1955) is an English author of children's and young adult novels. She has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for British children's books. Price was born in Dudley, Worcestershire (now West Midlands) in what is known as the Black Country. The region had a major effect on her writing which is "grounded in its history and geology, the limestone and iron ore and coal and fireclay of a landscape that spawned the industrial revolution". From a working class family, she left school without qualifications, and stacked supermarket shelves and washed up in hotel kitchens while writing her first books. She has written over 60 books, and also worked as a Royal Literary Fund fellow attached to De Montford University. Writing Many of Susan Price's works are fantasy, from science fiction to ghost stories; some are historical novels; others are about animals or everyday life. Many of her short stories are re-tellings of tales from folklore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Babysitter III
''The Babysitter'' is a novel series by R. L. Stine. The first novel in the series was published in 1989, and it led to establishing Stine as a prominent author in the children's horror genre.Cullinan, Bernice E.; Person, Diane G''The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature'' Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003. p. 753. The first novel follows a simple premise of a babysitter who finds she is the next in a series of babysitting victims to a crazed killer. Three sequels were published: ''The Babysitter II'' in July 1991, ''The Babysitter III'' in October 1993 and ''The Babysitter IV'' in June 1995. ''The Babysitter'' Plot summary Jenny Jeffers, a sixteen-year-old girl, takes a babysitting job for a child named Donny. While babysitting, she gets menacing phone calls from someone and finds a threatening note in her backpack. She soon figures out that Donny's father, Mr. Hagen, was the one making those calls after finding a stash of newspaper clippings in his clo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Steiner
Barbara Steiner (born 1964) is an Austrian art historian, curator, author, and editor. Steiner is the director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. She served as the director of the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig from 2001 to 2011, and as the director of Kunsthaus Graz from 2016 to 2021. Biography Steiner was born in Dörfles, Austria, in 1964. She graduated from the Ortwein School in Graz in 1984, studied art history at the University of Vienna, and undertook post-graduate research in museum and curatorial studies at the State Academy for Lower Austria in Krems. Career Steiner began her curatorial career in Germany and Austria in the 1990s. She wrote the first text on the artist Erwin Wurm in 1990. Steiner organized the exhibition ''Backstage: Topology of Contemporary Art'' at Kunstverein Hamburg with Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen in 1993, and curated ''Lost Paradise'' at Kunstraum Vienna in 1994, exhibiting works by Jeremy Deller, Liam Gillick, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dead Game
Auline Bates is an American author who writes for young adults and adults. Her teen suspense novels, written as A. Bates, include ''Party Line'', ''Final Exam'', ''Mother's Helper'', ''The Dead Game'' and ''Krazy 4 U''. ''The Wall Street Journal'' references ''Final Exam'' in an article about "wildly popular spooky tales and murder mysteries tailored for teenagers" in an article entitled "Gnarlatious Novels: Lurid Thrillers for the Teen Set". ''The Oregonian'' refers to ''Final Exam'' as one of four "new paperback hit thrillers", and Westword gives a paragraph to her book signing"Books/Poetry", ''Westword ''Westword'' is a free digital and print media publication based in Denver, Colorado. ''Westword'' publishes daily online coverage of local news, restaurants, music and arts, as well as longform narrative journalism. A weekly print issue circ ...'', Denver, September 18, 1990. for ''Party Line'' and ''Final Exam''. Publications Teen Suspense * ''Party Line'' (1989) * ''F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Babysitter II
''The Babysitter'' is a novel series by R. L. Stine. The first novel in the series was published in 1989, and it led to establishing Stine as a prominent author in the children's horror genre.Cullinan, Bernice E.; Person, Diane G''The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature'' Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003. p. 753. The first novel follows a simple premise of a babysitter who finds she is the next in a series of babysitting victims to a crazed killer. Three sequels were published: ''The Babysitter II'' in July 1991, ''The Babysitter III'' in October 1993 and ''The Babysitter IV'' in June 1995. ''The Babysitter'' Plot summary Jenny Jeffers, a sixteen-year-old girl, takes a babysitting job for a child named Donny. While babysitting, she gets menacing phone calls from someone and finds a threatening note in her backpack. She soon figures out that Donny's father, Mr. Hagen, was the one making those calls after finding a stash of newspaper clippings in his clo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
