Coming of Age
This young girl has to learn to find her voice and speak out for her murdered friend in The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.
Who is Starr Carter
This drunken mentor/former winner of the Hunger Games, introduced in the first novel, is the main character in the prequel novel, Sunrise on the Reaping.
Who is Haymitch Abernathy?
This Robert Frost poem became a symbolic link between Ponyboy and Johnny during their time hiding out in the church.
What is Nothing Gold Can Stay?
Seventeenth Summer (1942) by Maureen Daly is the first real instance of a book in this genre (hint: it's the name of the class)
What is Young Adult Literature?
This author went by their first initials instead of their name when writing their first book in the Harry Potter Series
Who is J.K. Rowling
This character, who works as a gas station employee, was played by Rob Lowe in the 1983 adaptation of The Outsiders
Who is Sodapop Curtis
In Divergent by Veronica Roth, Tris leaves her family to join this faction to join, known for their bold and daring actions.
What is Dauntless?
The opposite of Dystopia, this term means a perfect society.
What is Utopia?
This short story by YA author Dhonielle Clayton, was our first piece of YA literature we read this year, exploring relationships and paranoia in romance.
What is Weight?
This Hunger games author was inspired to write the series by interchanging TV coverage of game shows mixed with the Iraq War in the early 2000's.
Who is Suzanne Collins?
This character from the Outsiders was killed by Johnny when he attempts to drown Ponyboy.
Who is Bob?
There are the creatures that threaten the characters in The Maze Runner.
What are Grievers?
This 2001 Wendelin Van Draanen novel is told from alternating perspectives, following the love story between Bryce and Lori.
What is Flipped?
Novels like Speak, by this author, can help young readers to navigate uncomfortable and adult topics in a safe way?
This author of The Maze Runner won the
Whitney Award for Best Youth Fiction
Who is James Dashner?
The phrase The Hate U Give is an acronym that comes from a short lived 90's rap group led by this famous rapper, which inspired the Title of Angie Thomas' book.
Who is Tupac Shakur?
This baby in The Giver, symbolizes the hope Jonas has for the future, leading to his eventual escape to Elsewhere.
Who is Gabriel?
This former Naked Brother Band lead singer played Issac in the 2014 adaptation of John Green's A Fault in Our Stars.
Who is Nat Wolff?
This series of young adult horror novels, which started with Welcome to Dead House in 1992, were written by Robert Stine, and served as many reader's first experience with horror stories.
What is Goosebumps?
Written by this author, Dear Martin is an exploration on the idea of non-violent protests, seeing if MLK's ideas would work in our Modern World.
Who is Nic Stone?
This MCU star plays King in the 2018 adaptation of The Hate U Give.
This George Orwell novel which talked about the future at the time it was written in 1949, is known by many as the first famous Dystopian Novel
What is 1984?
The german term still frequently used for a Coming-of-Age story exploring themes of growth, self-discovery, and moral understanding through significant experiences
What is a Bildungsroman?
This was the woman from this Public library system, who listed all of the young adult novels in a collection called “Books for Older Boys and Girls”, which would evolve into what we know today as Young Adult Literature. (name the woman or the city her library was in)
This author was only 15 when she wrote and published her first book, inspired by the class divides in her hometown in Oklahoma.
Who is S.E. Hinton?