Researcher Suggests Ratings System for YA Books
Should there be a ratings system for young adult books?
Brigham Young University professor Sarah Coyne studied the 40 YA books that topped the New York Times bestseller list in the summer of 2008, identifying 1,500 “profane words” in the books.
She explained her thoughts at U.S. News: “I think we put books on a pedestal compared to other forms of media … I thought long and hard about whether to do the study in the first place—I think banning books is a terrible idea, but a content warning on the back I think would empower parents.”

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Penguin Young Readers Group will release S.E. Hinton‘s The Outsiders as an eBook for the first time.
Wimpy Kid series author and illustrator Jeff Kinney was crowned “Author of the Year” at the Children’s Choice Book Awards gala in New York City. This marked the second year in a row that a middle grade author has emerged victorious in this category.
In the wake of Hunger Games success, Lionsgate Entertainment acquired the film rights to the young-adult fantasy series, Patrick Ness‘ Chaos Walking trilogy. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman will adapt the first book,
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Scholastic has printed more than 36.5 million copies of books in The Hunger Games trilogy in the United States alone. This includes more than 17.5 million copies of The Hunger Games, more than ten million copies of Catching Fire and more than nine million copies of Mockingjay.
The Hunger Games will open in theaters around the country today and the movie will undoubtedly send readers scrambling 
Promoting The Hunger Games adaptation, actors Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson (pictured) visited New York City’s Barnes & Noble Union Square.




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