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Point Horror
''Point Horror'' is a series of young adult horror fiction books. The series was most popular among teenaged girls.Coles, Martin. Hall, Christine. ''Children's Reading Choices''. Routledge, 1998, p 46. History The ''Point Horror'' series was launched in 1991 by 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, Lisa J. Smith, Diane Hoh, Richie Tankersley Cusick, 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'' series did not attract much serious attention, British children's novelist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Adult Literature
Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age. While the genre is primarily targeted at adolescents, approximately half of YA readers are adults. The subject matter and genres of YA correlate with the age and experience of the protagonist. The genres available in YA are expansive and include most of those found in adult fiction. Common themes related to YA include friendship, first love, relationships, and identity. Stories that focus on the specific challenges of youth are sometimes referred to as problem novels or coming-of-age novels. Young adult fiction was developed to soften the transition between children's novels and adult literature. History Beginning The history of young adult literature is tied to the history of how childhood and young adulthood has been perceived. One early writer to recognize young adults as a distinct age group was Sarah Trimmer, who, in 1802, described "young adulthood" as lasting from ages 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Babysitter (novel)
''The Babysitter'' is a novel series by R. L. Stine. The first novel in the series was published in 1989, and it led to establish 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 of this book 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Pullman
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. His books include the fantasy trilogy ''His Dark Materials'' and ''The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ'', a fictionalised biography of Jesus. In 2008, ''The Times'' named Pullman one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945". In a 2004 BBC poll, he was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to literature. ''Northern Lights'', the first volume in ''His Dark Materials'', won the 1995 Carnegie Medal of the Library Association as the year's outstanding English-language children's book.(Carnegie Winner 1995) . Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. |
Colin Greenland
Colin Greenland (born 17 May 1954 in Dover, Kent, England) 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry Kilworth
Garry Douglas Kilworth (born 5 July 1941 in York) is a British science fiction, fantasy and historical novelist, and a former Royal Air Force cryptographer. Early life Kilworth was raised partly in Aden, South Arabia, the son of an airman. Having an itinerant father, he travelled widely, both in Britain and abroad, and attended over 20 different schools before the age of 15. Kilworth is a graduate of King's College London. Career Kilworth went to military school and served in the Royal Air Force for 18 years as a cryptographer. On demobilisation he joined Cable & Wireless, an international telecommunications company, leaving them to become a full-time writer in 1981. His science fiction and fantasy does not fit any set formula, being more interested in the enigmatic and strange, with roots in folk lore. He states that his one great passion is the short story, at which he is most adept. However, as an eclectic writer he has produced novels in several genres including science fic ... [...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 internationally acclaimed '' 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 ... [...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 Unite ... [...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). 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. Her first Ghost World novel, '' The Ghost Drum'' (1987), is an original fairy tale using elements from Russian history and Russian folklore. She won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising ''The Ghost Drum'' as the year's best children's book by a British subject. In '' The Sterkarm Handshake'' (1998) and its sequel ''A Sterkarm Kiss'' (2003), time travel brings together a young anthropologist from 21st century Britain and a young warrior from 16th century Scotland. They become lovers and she s ... [...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 establish 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 of this book 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 ... [...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 Leipzig Museum of Contemporary Art 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 Parreno, ... [...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 cir ...'', 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 establish 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 of this book 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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