Rather, this is an attempt—key word—at rounding up as many of the movies based on YA books as possible as of 2018. 1,324,279 ratings —


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315,474 ratings — It doesn’t feel like an expedition to find out what the teens are doing. 97,806 ratings — published 2001, avg rating 4.12 — I like it, but I think as I’ve evolved, I wouldn’t write it that way now, for better or for worse. “That is one way the author presents themselves as authentic to the YA community, by nailing that keenness of feeling and emotion and high-stakes nature of the interactions they have with people every day.”. It adds to our cultural literacy. A rare class of people, like Kell, are able to traverse between the parallel universes.

Eric and Morgan have been friends every since they can remember, but their bond is sharpened by their shared birthday. Pudge is the newbie, withdrawn and intellectual. “That's life, isn't it?” Levithan says. Think Like a Teen Looking for Alaska is the debut novel that launched YA superstar John Green's career.
When your protagonist struggles with very real problems, readers can relate. “Even if we’re not the same as the characters we read, they are all dealing with things—issues of who they are, who they should be, what they should and shouldn’t do—that we all deal with, in their own ways. But at the core, Harry and his friends have the same struggles all teenagers do. Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging (Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison), Ashes In The Snow (Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys), Beautiful Boy (combines Beautiful Boy by David Sheff and Tweak by Nic Sheff), Beautiful Creatures (Beautiful Creatures by Margaret Stohn and Kami Garcia), Before I Fall (Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver), Blood and Chocolate (Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause), The Book Thief (The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak), The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis), The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (The Bumblebee Flies Anyway by Robert Cormier), The Chocolate War (The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier), Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant (The Vampire’s Assistant by Darren Shan), Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen by Dyan Sheldon), The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken), Drink, Slay, Love (Drink, Slay, Love by Sarah Beth Durst), Everything, Everything (Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon), Fat Kid Rules The World (Fat Kid Rules the World by KL Going), The Fault In Our Stars (The Fault in Our Stars by John Green), The Fifth Wave (The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey), Flipped (Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen), The Golden Compass (The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman), *Harry Potter (Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling), The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas), How I Live Now (How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff), How To Deal (combines Someone Like You and That Summer by Sarah Dessen), *The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins), I Am Number Four (I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore), I Know What You Did Last Summer (I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan), I Love You, Beth Cooper (I Love You Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle), I Still See You (Break My Heart 1000 Times by Daniel Waters), It’s Kind of a Funny Story (It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini), Jasper Jones (Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey), Lemonade Mouth (Lemonade Mouth by Mark Peter Hughes), Looking for Alibrandi (Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta), Love, Simon (Simon vs. The same goes for the cover. Know your characters, know your readers, and find the emotional intensity that will allow them to connect. Nina LaCour's books are known for confronting difficult situations with a stunningly poetic honesty, and We Are Okay is no exception. Alaska, a fellow student, draws him out of himself. It’s only being accurate.”. It’s Okay for YA To Get Dark It adds to what we know about ourselves.” Technology and Internet culture, however, change even quicker than our pop-culture lexicons, so Rowell says she avoided references to Tumblr, Fanfiction.net, and some of the fanfiction community’s terminology—like shipping and slash fiction—out of concern that too many brand names or esoteric details would trip up unfamiliar readers. We’re also about to see blockbuster adaptations of The Darkest Minds and The Hate U Give. Imagine your story is a family drama about a young prince growing into his role through tragedy and adversity. Some writers can pull off slang successfully: Rachel Cohn’s debut novel, 2002’s Gingerbread, introduced readers to punk-rock protagonist Cyd Charisse, whose youthful vocab brought her to life on the very first page and made her one of the most memorable YA voices in recent years: My so-called parents hate my boyfriend, Shrimp. This alone may be one reason YA struggles to be defined—despite targeting an age range, we can identify what about YA fiction differs from other works. (Protagonists that fall towards the lower end of the teens tend to be more common in middle-grade fiction– a different category entirely.)

Read Six of Crows with a pen in hand; this heist novel has a complicated, but completely gripping, plot.

Keep the medium in mind when you make your marketing content too. You’re well into that second draft and you’ve read numerous other authors who’ve successfully marketed similar books. The trick is twofold—meeting the reader expectations of the genre and making your story compelling and exciting to read. When someone gets the emails and threatens to spill his secret, Simon's budding relationship is put in jeopardy.

233,446 ratings — published 2008, avg rating 4.29 — Rather, this is an attempt—key word—at rounding up as many of the movies based on YA books as possible as of 2018. All writers should read. For example, S.E. Part of this is because of the relatability of a young hero and a young reader. These figures could initially mislead, as an adult purchasing the newest Harry Potter book doesn’t mean they are reading the book.

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