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Are you there god its me katniss
1. Are you there, God?
It’s me, Katniss.
Beth Maddigan beth.maddigan@mun.ca
Education Librarian www.slideshare.net/bethmaddigan
2. Are you hiding a
YA Novel behind that
Pulitzer prize winner?
3. The writing on the wall:
YA moves to the A Stage
New genre – New Adult Canada Reads
4. So, what’s the problem?
Journalist Ruth Graham voiced an opinion held by some in her article in The
Slate entitled “Against YA”. In it she implores, “Fellow grown-ups, at the risk
of sounding snobbish and joyless and old, we are better than this.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/06/against_ya_adults_should_be_embarrassed_to_read_children_s_books.html
5. Reading Research
Ross, C. (1997). Reading the covers off Nancy Drew: What readers say about
series books. Emergency Librarian, 24(5), 19.
Paris, S. G. (2005). Reinterpreting the development of reading skills. Reading
Research Quarterly, 40(2), 184-202.
6. Looking for suggestions?
YA Literature blogger Lisa Parkin has predicted 4 trends for YA literature in 2015:
Crimes & cons, retellings, quirky & moving novels, & dealing with loss
http://www.readbreatherelax.com/
9. Fred L. Worth
Worth wrote Super Trivia and other trivia books in the
1970s and inserted a single false fact to protect himself
from copyright infringement.
10. Chris Haney &
Scott Abbott
These two gentleman from Quebec designed the game
Trivial Pursuit and used Mr. Worth’s books “for reference”.