Young Adult Books Will Rule the World
Timeline created by Abby Harrison in Personal| Event Date: | Event Title: | Event Description: | |
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First YA Librarian | Mabel Williams Atkinson, J. (1986, Fall). Pioneers in public library service to young adults. Top of the News, 43 (1), 30 | |
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YA gets a name. | Earliest documented use of the term YA for teen books. "Girl Reading." Flickr. Web. 5 June 2011. http://www.flickr.com/photos/o5com/4951618678/ | |
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First Queen of YA | Movie trailer S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders is published. | |
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YA paperbacks published | ||
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YA books become their own genre | http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PediaPress_Book_Reading_2.jpg | |
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Graphic Novels appear | Bleach, Naruto, Deathnote | |
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Twilight becomes YA bestseller. | ||
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Ya books made into movies | Beastly, Kind of a Funny Story, Twilight, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Hunger Games | |
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YA books become top sellers | Twilight, Looking for Alaska, Pretty Little Liars | |
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#YASaves Twitter Tag trends in US and world | Darkness Too Visible In response to a Wall Street Journal article claiming YA Lit. is too dark 15,000 plus people have tweeted about how YA literature has saved and/or helped them personally. The Wall Street Journal article has 34 comments. | |
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YA Books take over the world! | And I become the Queen! :) | |
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