History of Young Adult Literature

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History of Young Adult Literature

• 100 years in the making

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Landmark texts

• Let the Hurricane Roar by, Rose Wilder Lane, 1933
• Seventeenth Summer by, Maureen Daly, 1942
• The Outsiders by Susan Hinton, 1967
• Weetzie Bat by, Lia Francesca Block, 1989

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Phase 1 The Junior Novel1933-1939

• Let the Hurricane Roar by, Rose Wilder Lane, 1933
• Sue Barton, Student Nurse by, Helen Dore Bolyston
  
• Shuttered Windows by, Florence Means
• T-Model Tommy by, Stephen Meader

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Phase II Adolescent Fiction1940-1960

• Publishers recognized an adolescent market
• Seventeenth Summer, by, Maureen Daly, 1942

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Phase III Young Adult Novel1967-1988

• Expansive genres (animals, films, teenage
  problem, controversies, poetry, short story
  collections, drama/script, graphic novel, memoir)
• The Outsiders, by Susan Hinton, 1967

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Phase IV Adult Adolescent Novel1989-Present

• Taboos fall away
• Controversial topics addressed
• More magic realism
• Boundaries are pushed (zines, fantasy)
• Weetzie Bat, by, Lia Francesca Block, 1989
• Cross-over novels
• Books made for adults but adopted by students

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