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Why Do Adults Read Young Adult Books?

By Monica Hay @monicathewriter

November 6, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Why Do Adults Read Young Adult Books?

Adult books are about learning to live in the world we have. YA books are about changing the world.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: adult books, adults reading YA, audience, BookTube, Christine Riccio, genre, Publisher's Weekly, publishing, teen, YA, ya books, young adult, young adult literature

YA Programs & Libraries: Developing and Maintaining

By Sadie Verville @sadieverville

July 1, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

YA Programs & Libraries: Developing and Maintaining

Growing up around this library program and watching it flourish over the years inspired me to take a deeper look at young adult programs in libraries for my thesis. How have they developed over the years? What makes them “successful,” and what defines success? How are librarians identifying and then meeting their communities’ needs?

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: fiction, learning, librarians, libraries, library programs, Reading, research, teen advisory board, teen programs, teens, thesis, YA, young adult, youth programs

Different Places, Different Faces: Book Covers in the US and the UK

By Meagan Nolan

June 12, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Different Places, Different Faces: Book Covers in the US and the UK

As the cover of a book communicates to the potential reader what lies within, many conventions have emerged to highlight certain genres, such as an old photograph that promises a memoir, or a shirtless muscular man that promises a romance novel. To investigate further, we’ll look at four popular books sold in both the US and the UK and see what each cover has to say about the same story.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: audience, background, book covers, color, cover design, fantasy, font, genre, illustrations, international, memoir, mystery, photographs, popular books, publishers, publishing houses, reader, romance, thriller, UK, United Kingdom, United States, US, young adult

Into the Queerosphere: Resources for Finding Your Next LGBTQ Read

By Hanna Ziegler

April 17, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Into the Queerosphere: Resources for Finding Your Next LGBTQ Read

To anyone that’s been paying attention to recent trends in young adult (YA) over the last four or five years, the line-up of books slated for 2019 is both timely and highly anticipated. With the push for diversity in literature and media still going as strong as ever (perhaps even stronger than ever), it seems that publishers have finally started to seriously answer the call. Young adult (and middle grade) lists are heavy with POC leads and the number of books about LGBTQ characters has doubled since the last few publishing seasons (and that’s just looking at books coming out—pun intended—between January and April! The list for May through June is even longer!). This is extra important when you consider that as recently as 2012, just over 1 percent of YA books had any LGBTQ content at all.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: 2019, aromantic, asexual, bisexual, book list, diverse books, diverse protagonists, diverse representation, diversity, fiction, gay, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, intersex, lesbian, LGBT, LGBTQ, lgbtq books, lgbtqia, list, notes on publishing, pansexual, polyamory, polysexual, publishing, queer, queer books, queer diversity, queer representation, tbr, transgender, YA, young adult

Gendered Book Covers and Why Boys Read Less than Girls

By Sydnee Chesley

February 1, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Gendered Book Covers and Why Boys Read Less than Girls

In 2016, Scholastic conducted a survey on over two thousand US children ages six to seventeen and found that when it came to reading, boys generally do not like it as much as girls do.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book covers, children, Design, fantasy, gender stereotypes, High School, homelessness, Ooligan, Scholastic, sci-fi, sexism, Sleeping in My Jeans, The Raven Boys, Warcross, YA, young adult

Black Characters Matter: Social Justice in YA

By Ruth Robertson @RRobertson1991

January 4, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Black Characters Matter: Social Justice in YA

Young Adult literature, or YA, has been a genre dominated by white authors and characters, but this is changing. In the past couple years, two debut novels by African-American women have taken the YA world and bestseller lists by storm: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017) and The Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (2018). If you haven’t read them yet, you should.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Angie Thomas, Black Girl Magic, Black Lives Matter, representation, social justice, The Children of Blood and Bone, The Hate U Give, Tomi Adeyemi, YA, YA trends, young adult

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