Abstract

read bookswritten specifically for them by authors such as Walter Dean Myers, Paul Zindel, S. E. Hinton, and Joan Lowery Nixon, they also turn to titles from such well known adult favorites as Michael Crichton, Tim O'Brien, John Grisham, and Sandra Cisneros. The conventional wisdom suggests adolescents begin moving from juvenile books to adult books between the ages of fourteen and sixteen (Carlsen 1980, 100). Contemporary indications, though, would push these figures downward.

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