Research Paper
English 9 – Ms. DePhillips
DUE DATE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 22
Introduction
Knowing how to write research papers is one of the most valuable skills you can take with you to college. No matter what
your major, you will undoubtedly be asked to write at least one research paper in most of your classes. This assignment
will lay the groundwork for those future papers.
There are several steps to writing a good research paper. Steps 1-6 count as individual quiz grades. The rough draft
will count as one full test grade. The final copy (includes Turnitin.com submission) will count as a project grade.
Failure to hand in a step on the due date will lower the final grade for the research paper.
You must complete each of these steps:
Assignment
Parent Letter and Pledge
Choose a Topic/Create a Thesis
Source Cards (4)
Outline
Note Cards (at least 12)
Rough Draft
Final copy + Turnitin.com
Points Possible
10 points – quiz
10 points – quiz
10 points – quiz
10 points – quiz
10 points – quiz
100 points – Test
Project Grade (20% of Final grade)
Due Date
Wednesday, April10
Monday, April 15
Thursday, April 18
Thursday, April 25
Thursday, May 2
Monday, May 13
Wednesday, May 22
Objective
Students will write a 3½ - 4 page research paper on a young adult writer, using a variety of sources.
Materials
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folder, index cards
Process
Select an American writer from the list provided. Then, write a paper detailing the following information in order:
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Detailed history of his/her life:
o Early Life - background of parents, where/when born, childhood
o Middle Years – education, experiences, places the young adult writer lived and why
o Adult Life – profession(s), marriage, children, other influences and how his/her life influenced his/her
writing , full story of what the young adult writer did in his/her life
Literary style/career
o Style
o Themes
o Subjects
o Major works (use sentences, not a list format)
Analysis of one of the young adult writer’s “great works”: choose one work that is considered the author’s best
work and do an analysis of it
o Name and year it was published
o Brief synopsis of plot
o Why is it popular, what makes it popular?
o Any comments on the work by the young adult writer or a critical source (critic, editor, etc)
o What is the author’s message?
o Did the young adult writer’s life influence the work?
o How did he/she come up with the idea of writing it?
Conclusion
o Details of death or current status
o Explanation of the young adult writer’s “greatness”: explain what makes a writer great and how this work
exemplifies that greatness
 What do people generally think of the author’s writing?
 How has the writing affected or influenced America and American Literature?
Requirements and Things to Remember
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Length: Papers must be at least 3 ½ - 4 pages. Anything less will not receive full credit.
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Format: All elements (heading, header, citations, Works Cited) must be in MLA format: typed,
double-spaced, 1” margins, 12 point Times New Roman font, no spacing between paragraphs.
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Turnitin.com: All papers must be posted on turnitin.com. It is important that you
properly cite your sources because turnitin.com considers incorrect citation as plagiarism.
Plagiarism is not tolerated and any student caught plagiarizing will automatically receive a
zero.
o Papers must be posted on turnitin.com on or before the due date.
o Papers not submitted on turnitin.com will receive a grade of zero.
o Students who do not have internet or computer access must make an appointment with
me to use the school computer.
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You must have at least four (4) sources for this research paper
o Online sources cannot be Wikipedia
o Miscellaneous sources include newspaper, articles, websites, etc.
o All sources found online must be from a reliable source
o Book sources cannot include the author’s own work
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Do not put spaces between paragraphs, or extra spaces between the title and the intro.
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Do not use personal pronouns: I, you, we, us, my, my opinion, this paper, etc…
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Your paper should not be a collection of direct quotes. Most of it should be paraphrased.
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Any quote longer than 3 lines should be indented as a block quote and single spaced.
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Quotes should not start or end a paragraph.
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Do not say: This paper will explain…
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Do not use contractions.
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Do not leave one line of text on the bottom of a page by itself, or on the top of a page by itself.
Steps in Researching and Writing a Paper
1. Start to research to determine your topic. Look at various books and sites.
2. Create a working annotated bibliography of potential sources you may use for your paper. This
should be written in proper MLA format and should also explain why each specific source may
be useful.
3. Narrow your topic and write a thesis statement based on your topic. Do not make your thesis
statement too broad. Make sure you have a complete declarative sentence.
4. Write the outline for the paper.
5. Get at least four sources for your paper. Be sure to vary sources as noted for you.
6. When you decide to use a source for your paper, write an index card for that source. Be sure to
use the correct format for these note cards.
a. Write on only one side of each card, and write about only one main idea. (You will then
be able to arrange and rearrange your note cards easily according to their main ideas.)
b. Write a heading or theme – a key word or phrase – at the top of the note card and
underline it. The heading tells the main idea discussed on the note card. Usually, the
heading is one of the topics or subtopics in your working outline.
c. Make a conscious effort to use your own words when you take notes. It may help to
explain to yourself what the young adult writer has written, then transfer that
“explanation” to your note card. You do not need to write in complete sentences. Use
abbreviations and symbols.
d. Enclose direct quotation is large quotation marks. Make sure you have quoted word for
word, exactly as the author wrote it. If you wish to leave out any material from the
quoted passage – a sentence or phrase or even a single word – you must show that you
have done so by inserting ellipses at the appropriate point.
e. At the bottom of each note card, write the author and page number(s) where you found
the information.
f. Before you go on to a new note card, double-check to see that you have written the
young adult writer and page numbers. If you haven’t done this, your note card will be
useless because you will not be able to find and document the source of your
information again.
Grading
20% of final marking period grade
Five (5) points will be deducted for every day that the final paper is late. This includes turnitin.com.
Final paper grading will be based on the following rubric:
Category
Organization
4
Information is very
organized with wellconstructed paragraphs
and subheadings.
3
Information is
organized with
well-constructed
paragraphs.
2
Information is
organized, but
paragraphs are not
well-constructed.
1
The information
appears to be
disorganized.
Amount of
information
All topics are addressed
and all questions
answered with at least 2
sentences about each.
All topics are
addressed and
most questions
answered with at
least 2 sentences
about each.
All topics are
addressed, and
most questions
answered with 1
sentence about
each.
One or more
topics were not
addressed.
Mechanics
No grammatical, spelling,
or punctuation errors. No
use of personal pronouns.
The author’s first name is
not used. Novels are
italicized. Contractions
are not used.
Almost no
grammatical,
spelling, or
punctuation
errors. (1-5)
A few grammatical,
spelling, or
punctuation errors.
(6-10)
Many
grammatical,
spelling, or
punctuation
errors. (11+)
MLA format*
Entire paper is properly
formatted to MLA
standards.
Almost entire
paper is properly
formatted to MLA
standards. (1-2)
Some MLA
standards are
followed, but there
are problems. (3-4)
Little evidence of
following MLA
standards. (5+)
Parenthetical
Citation
All parenthetical citations
are accurately
documented in MLA
format.
All parenthetical
citations are
documented, but
a few are not in
MLA format.
All parenthetical
citations are
documented, but
many are not in
MLA format.
Many
parenthetical
citations appear
to be missing
from paper.
Sources
All sources are
exceptionally reliable and
represent a variety of
source types.
Most sources
used appear to be
reliable.
Some sources
appear to be
reliable, but quite a
few are
questionable.
Limited number
of reliable sources
were consulted.
Works Cited
All sources are accurately
documented in MLA
format. Wikipedia is not
used.
All sources are
documented, but
a few (1-2) are not
in MLA format.
All sources are
documented, but
many, if not all,
(3+) are not in
MLA format.
Less than four
sources are
documented.
*MLA Format:
● correct heading with correct spacing
● correct header
● title appears centered beneath heading; Times New Roman 12; not underline/bold etc.
● double spaced
● Times New Roman 12
● one inch margins
List of young adult writers
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Joan Abelove: Go and Come Back, Saying It Out Loud, Lost and Found
Hailey Abbott: The Secrets of Boys, Summer Boys series, The Bridesmaid, Getting Lost With Boys, The Perfect
Boy, Waking Up To Boys, Forbidden Boy, The Other Boy
Richard Adams: Watership Down, Shardik, The Plague Dogs
Alexandra Adornetto: Halo, Hades, Heaven
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Eight Cousins
Lloyd Alexander: The Prydain Chronicles, Westmark, The Kestrel, The Beggar Queen
Isabel Allende: The Adventures of Eagle and Jaguar series: City of the Beasts, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon,
and Forest of the Pygmies
David Almond: Kit's Wilderness, Heaven Eyes, Clay
Elaine M. Alphin: Counterfeit Son
Julia Alvarez: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Yo!, Before We Were Free
Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak, Fever 1793, Catalyst, Prom, Twisted
M. T. Anderson: Feed
V.C. Andrews: Flowers in the Attic, among others
Kim Antieau: Mercy, Unbound
Allen Appel: Twice Upon a Time
Jules Archer: The Plot to Seize the White House, The Incredible Sixties, Treason in America: Disloyalty Versus
Dissent, and other volumes of non-fiction U.S. history
Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why, The Future of Us
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: In the Forests of the Night, Demon in My View, Shattered Mirror, Midnight Predator,
Persistence of Memory, the Kiesha'ra series
Avi: Nothing But the Truth, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Crispin: The Cross of Lead
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Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting
David-Matthew Barnes: Mesmerized, Swimming to Chicago
T. A. Barron: The Ancient One
John Barrowman and Carole Barrowman: Hollow Earth
Lois Thompson Bartholomew: The White Dove
Cat Bauer: Harley's Ninth, Harley, Like a Person
Joan Bauer: Rules of the Road, Squashed, Stand Tall, Hope Was Here
Michael Gerard Bauer: The Running Man, Don't Call Me Ishmael
Margaret Bechard: Hanging onto Max, Star Hatchling, Spacer and Rat, If it Doesn't Kill You
David Belbin: Love Lessons, Festival, Denial, The Last Virgin, Dead Guilty
Clare Bell: Ratha's Creature, Clan Ground, Ratha and Thistle-chaser, Ratha's Challenge, Ratha's Courage,
Tomorrow's Sphinx
Steve Berman: Vintage, a Ghost Story
Franny Billingsley: The Folk Keeper, Chime
Holly Black: The Spiderwick Chronicles, Tithe, Valiant, Ironside
Malorie Blackman: Noughts and Crosses series
Francesca Lia Block: Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Baby Be-Bop, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
Judy Blume: Forever, Tiger Eyes, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Frank Bonham: Durango Street
James Bow: The Unwritten Girl
Tim Bowler: River Boy, Apocalypse, Starseeker
Robin Brande: Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature, Fat Cat
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Ann Brashares: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Liz Braswell: The Nine Lives of Chloe King series
Libba Bray: A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing
Heather Brewer: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series
Kate Brian: The Virginity Club, Private series
Rae Bridgman: The Serpent's Spell, Amber Ambrosia, Fish & Sphinx
Lauren Brooke: Heartland series, Chestnut Hill series
Kevin Brooks: Candy, Martyn Pig, The Road of the Dead
Alyssa Brugman: Walking Naked
Annie Bryant: Beacon Street Girls series
Eve Bunting: A Sudden Silence
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden, A Little Princess
Niki Burnham: Royally Jacked, Sticky Fingers
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Meg Cabot: The Mediator, 1-800-Where-R-U, The Princess Diaries, All-American Girl, Jinx
Rachel Caine: The Morganville Vampires series
Deb Caletti: The Nature of Jade, The Secret Life of Prince Charming, The Six Rules of Maybe
Peter Cameron: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You
W. Bruce Cameron: A Dog's Purpose
Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game
Patrick Carman: Dark Eden
Isobelle Carmody: Obernewtyn Chronicles, Legendsong Saga
Ally Carter: The Gallagher Girls, Heist Society
Cathy Cassidy: Indigo Blue, Scarlett, Gingersnaps
P. C. Cast: House of Night series
Brian Caswell: A Cage of Butterflies, Only the Heart, Double Exposure
Michael Chabon (primarily an author of adult fiction): Summerland
Aidan Chambers: Dance on My Grave, Postcards from No Man's Land
Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Alice Childress: A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich
Mark Childress: One Mississippi, Crazy In Alabama
John Christopher: Prince in Waiting trilogy, Tripods trilogy
Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices
Terri Clark: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Sleepless
Beverly Cleary: Ramona and Beezus, Ramona the Pest, Fifteen
Brock Cole: The Goats
Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl, The Wish List, Half Moon Investigations, The Supernaturalist, And Another Thing...,
Airman
Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier: My Brother Sam Is Dead
Suzanne Collins: The Underland Chronicles, The Hunger Games Trilogy
Ellen Conford: We Interrupt this Semester for an Important Bulletin
Pam Conrad: My Daniel
Caroline B. Cooney: The Face on the Milk Carton, Both Sides of Time, Twenty Pageants Later, Driver's Ed
Susan Cooper: The Dark is Rising series
Robert Cormier: The Chocolate War, After the First Death, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Fade, I Am the Cheese,
Tenderness, We All Fall Down
Bruce Coville: Aliens Ate My Homework, Space Brat, My Teacher Is an Alien
John Coy: Crackback, Box Out
Sharon Creech: Walk Two Moons, Bloomability, The Wanderer, Chasing Redbird, Absolutely Normal Chaos, Ruby
Holler
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Linda Crew: Children of the River
Chris Crutcher: Ironman, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Whale Talk, The Sledding Hill
Jane Louise Curry: The Watchers, A Stolen Life, The Black Canary
Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, Bud, Not Buddy
Karen Cushman: Catherine, Called Birdy
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Anita Daher: Spider's Song
Roald Dahl: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, The Great Automatic Grammatizator
Linden Dalecki: Kid B
Maureen Daly: Seventeenth Summer
Paula Danziger: The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, The Divorce Express
Terry Davis: Vision Quest, Mysterious Ways, If Rock & Roll Were a Machine
Pamela Dean: Tam Lin, The Secret Country trilogy, The Dubious Hills
Sarah Dessen: Dreamland, Keeping the Moon, The Truth About Forever
Carl Deuker: Heart of a Champion, Runner, Gym Candy
Graham Diamond The Thief of Kalimar, Lady of the Haven
Kate Dicamillo: Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux
Peter Dickinson: The Dancing Bear, Tulku, Eva, AK, The Ropemaker
Berlie Doherty: Dear Nobody, The Snake-Stone, Granny Was a Buffer Girl
Tom Dolby: The Sixth Form
Siobhan Dowd: A Swift Pure Cry, Bog Child
Ann Downer: The Spellkey, The Glass Salamander, The Books of the Keepers
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the Sherlock Holmes stories, written initially for adults
Diane Duane: Young Wizards series
Tessa Duder: Alex Quartet
Lois Duncan: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin, Summer of Fear
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Jennifer Echols: Forget You, Going Too Far, Love Story, The Boys Next Door, Endless Summer, The One That I
Want, Such A Rush
Chris Edwards: Bull Rider
Simone Elkeles: Perfect Chemistry, Rules of Attraction
Elizabeth Eulberg: The Lonely Hearts Club, Prom & Prejudice, Take a Bow
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Nancy Yi Fan: Swordbird
Nancy Farmer: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, The House of the Scorpion, The Sea of Trolls
Catherine Fisher: The Book of the Crow, The Oracle Prophecies Trilogy, Darkhenge, Corbenic, Incarceron
Becca Fitzpatrick: Hush, Hush, Crescendo, Silence
Sharon G. Flake: The Skin I'm In, Money Hungry
Paul Fleischman: Whirligig, A Fate Totally Worse than Death
Alex Flinn: Breathing Underwater, Beastly, Cloaked
Dennis Foon: The Longlight Legacy, Double or Nothing
Antonia Forest: Peter's Room, Thuggery Affair, The Attic Term
Paula Fox: One-Eyed Cat, The Slave Dancer
E.R. Frank: Life Is Funny, America, Wrecked, Friction
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Mariah Fredericks: In the Cards: Love, Crunch Time, The True Meaning of Cleavage, Head Games, The Smart
Girl's Guide to Tarot, Fatal Distraction
Benedict & Nancy Freedman: Mrs. Mike
Barbara C. Freeman: The Other Face, A Haunting Air, Snow in the Maze
Cornelia Funke: Inkheart, The Thief Lord, Dragon Rider
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Claudia Gabel: In or Out series, Romeo and Juliet and Vampires
Neil Gaiman: Coraline, The Graveyard Book
Jack Gantos: Joey Pigza stories, Hole in My Life (autobiography of his youth)
Nancy Garden: Annie on My Mind, The Year They Burned the Books
Alan Garner: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Elidor, The Owl Service, Red Shift
Jean Craighead George: Julie of the Wolves, My Side of the Mountain, Julie
Gail Giles: Shattering Glass
Morris Gleitzman: Two Weeks With the Queen, Puppy Fat, Worry Warts
Anna Godbersen: The Luxe Novels: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor
Parke Godwin: The Tower of Beowulf
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
John Green: Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns
Bette Greene: Summer of My German Soldier
Suresh & Jyoti Guptara: Conspiracy of Calaspia (Insanity Saga)
Rosa Guy: The Friends, The Disappearance
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PJ Haarsma: The Softwire series
Margaret Peterson Haddix: Among the Hidden, Found
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Shannon Hale: Princess Academy
Barbara Hall: Dixie Storms, House across the Cove, Tempo Change
Lisi Harrison: The Clique
Sonya Hartnett: The Silver Donkey
Pete Hautman: Godless, Invisible
Louise Hawes: The Vanishing Point, Waiting for Christopher, Rosey in the Present Tense
Robert A. Heinlein (primarily an author of science fiction): Red Planet
Claire Hennessy: Dear Diary
Karen Hesse: Out of the Dust, Witness (novels in verse)
Carl Hiaasen: Hoot, Flush, Scat
Charlie Higson: Young Bond
S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Tex, That Was Then, This Is Now
Amanda Hocking: My Blood Approves Series, Switched Trilogy
Anthony Horowitz: Alex Rider
Alice Hoffman: Green Angel
Nina Kiriki Hoffman (primarily an author of science fiction): A Stir of Bones, Spirits That Walk in Shadow
Jennifer Holm: Our Only May Amelia, Boston Jane
Cathy Hopkins: Mates, Dates series, Cinnamon Girl series
Erin Hunter: The Warriors series, the New Prophecy series, The Power of Three
Mollie Hunter: The Stronghold, A Stranger Came Ashore, Cat, Herself
Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Brian Jacques: Redwall series
A. M. Jenkins: Damage, Repossessed, Night Road
Angela Johnson: Toning the Sweep, Heaven, The First Part Last
Maureen Johnson: 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Girl at Sea, Suite Scarlett, Devilish, The Name of the Star
Carrie Jones: Need, Captivate, Entice
Diana Wynne Jones: Chrestomanci series, Dalemark Quartet, Fire and Hemlock, Power of Three, Dark Lord of
Derkholm, Year of the Griffin, The Merlin Conspiracy, Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Air, House of Many
Ways
Graham Joyce: TWOC, Do the Creepy Thing, Three Ways to Snog an Alien
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Lauren Kate : Fallen, Torment, Passion
Marilyn Kaye: Gifted series
Brian Keaney: Jacob's Ladder, The Haunting of Nathaniel Wolfe, The Private Life of Georgia Brown
Harold Keith: Rifles for Watie
M. E. Kerr: Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack, Little Little, Night Kites, Deliver Us from Evie, Fell, Gentlehands
Stephen King (primarily an author of adult horror fiction): Carrie, Christine, Cujo
David Klass: Danger Zone, You Don't Know Me
Annette Curtis Klause: The Silver Kiss, Blood and Chocolate
E. L. Konigsburg: Silent to the Bone, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World
Gordon Korman: Bruno and Boots series beginning with This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, Island
series, Jake, Reinvented, No More Dead Dogs, The 39 Clues: One False Note & The Emperor's Code
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Lori Lansens: The Girls: A Novel
Justine Larbalestier: Magic or Madness, How to Ditch Your Fairy, Liar
Kathryn Lasky: Blood Secret, Beyond the Burning Time, True North
Iain Lawrence: Lord of the Nutcracker Men
Michael Lawrence: Aldous Lexicon or Withern Rise trilogy
Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness
Madeleine L'Engle: The Time Quartet, Polly O'Keefe series, Austin family series
Tanith Lee: The Castle of Dark, The Claidi Journals, Piratica
Billie Letts: Where The Heart Is
Gail Carson Levine: The Wish, Ella Enchanted, Fairest, Dave at Night, The Two Princesses of Bamarre
David Levithan: Boy Meets Boy, The Realm of Possibility
C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia
Robert Lipsyte: The Contender, The Brave, The Chief, One Fat Summer
E. Lockhart: The Boyfriend List, Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything, Dramarama, The Disreputable
History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Wendy Loggia: Ever After: A Cinderella Story (novelization)
Lois Lowry: The Giver, The Silent Boy, Number the Stars, Gathering Blue
Louisa Luna: Brave New Girl
Barry Lyga: The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, Boy Toy
Frances Lynn: Crushed
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Anne McCaffrey: Dragonriders of Pern series and other fantasy titles
Patricia McCormick: Cut, My Brother's Keeper
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Lurlene McDaniel: One Last Wish, Hit and Run, Don't Die, My Love, Till Death Do Us Part
Robin McKinley: Beauty, The Hero and the Crown, Spindle's End, Rose Daughter
Carolyn Mackler: The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Vegan Virgin Valentine, Love and Other Four
Letter Words
Wanita May: Rae of Hope
Lisa McMann: Wake, Fade, Gone
Adeline Yen Mah: Falling Leaves: The Memoirs of A Unwanted Chinese Daughter, Chinese Cinderella, Chinese
Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society
Margaret Mahy: Alchemy, The Changeover
Sarra Manning: Let's Get Lost, Fashionistas series, Diary of a Crush series, Pretty Things, Guitar Girl
Keith Mansfield: Johnny Mackintosh series
Melina Marchetta: Looking For Alibrandi, Saving Francesca, (On the) Jellicoe Road, Finnikin of the Rock
Jan Mark: The Eclipse of the Century, Useful Idiots, Riding Tycho, Voyager
Melissa Marr: Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange, Fragile Eternity
John Marsden: Tomorrow series
Bobbie Ann Mason: In Country
Sue Mayfield: Drowning Anna
Norma Fox Mazer and Harry Mazer: Heartbeat
Richelle Mead: Vampire Academy, Frostbite, Shadow Kiss, Blood Promise, Spirit Bound, Bloodlines, The Golden
Lily
O. R. Melling: The Hunter's Moon
Melinda Metz: Roswell High, Fingerprints
Stephenie Meyer: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, The Host
Ben Mikaelsen: Petey, Touching Spirit Bear
Gloria D. Miklowitz: After the Bomb
Sarah Mlynowski: Bras and Broomsticks
James Moloney: The Book of Lies, Master of the Books
Perry Moore: Hero
Jaclyn Moriarty: The Year of Secret Assignments, Feeling Sorry for Celia, The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie
Jess Mowry: Way Past Cool, Babylon Boyz
Robert Muchamore: CHERUB series
Walter Dean Myers: Fallen Angels, Hoops, Monster, The Mouse Rap, Outside Shot, Scorpions, Slam, Bad Boy
(autobiography of his youth), Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
Lauren Myracle: ttyl, ttfn, l8r, g8r, Rhymes with Witches
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Beverley Naidoo: Chain of Fire, No Turning Back, Web of Lies
Donna Jo Napoli: Daughter of Venice, Bound, Sirena
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: Ice, Shiloh
William Nicholson: Wind on Fire trilogy
Joan Lowery Nixon: The Other Side of Dark, The Name of the Game Was Murder
Andre Norton (primarily an author of science fiction): The Stars are Ours!, Star Gate, The Beast Master
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Joyce Carol Oates (primarily an author of adult fiction): Big Mouth & Ugly Girl, Sexy
Tyne O'Connell: The Calypso Chronicles, True Love, The Sphinx and Other Unsolvable Riddles
Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Zibby Oneal: The Language of Goldfish, A Formal Feeling, In Summer Light
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Christopher Paolini: Inheritance Cycle
Linda Sue Park: A Single Shard, When My Name Was Keoko, The 39 Clues: Storm Warning
Francine Pascal: Sweet Valley High, Fearless series, The Ruling Class
Katherine Paterson: Jacob Have I Loved, Lyddie
James Patterson: Maximum Ride series, Witch and Wizard series, Daniel X series
Gary Paulsen: Hatchet, Canyons, The Island, The River, Brian's Winter, Nightjohn, Sarny, Soldier's Heart, Dogsong
Jackson Pearce: As You Wish, Sisters Red
Richard Peck: Are You in the House Alone?, Father Figure, The Last Safe Place on Earth, A Long Way from
Chicago, Princess Ashley, A Year Down Yonder
Robert Newton Peck: Clunie, A Day No Pigs Would Die, Extra Innings
Mal Peet: The Penalty, Keeper, Exposure, Tamar, Life: An Exploded Diagram
Julie Anne Peters: Keeping You a Secret, Define Normal
Stefan Petrucha: TimeTripper
Stella Pevsner: And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine, Cute is a Four-Letter Word
Susan Beth Pfeffer: Life As We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone
Rodman Philbrick: Freak the Mighty, The Fire Pony
Joan Phipson: Dinko, A Tide Flowing, The Watcher in the Garden, Bianca
Christopher Pike: The Season of Passage, Chain Letter and other thrillers
Tamora Pierce: The Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, Protector of the Small, Trickster's Choice, Trickster's
Queen, Provost's Dog, Circle of Magic, The Circle Opens
Daniel Pinkwater: The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
Susan Price: The Sterkarm Handshake, A Sterkarm Kiss, Odin's Voice, Odin's Queen
Connie Porter: Imani All Mine
Francine Prose (primarily an author of adult fiction): After
Anne Provoost: Falling, My Aunt is a Pilot Whale, In the Shadow of the Ark
Philip Pullman: The Ruby in the Smoke, The Broken Bridge, The White Mercedes, The Tin Princess, His Dark
Materials trilogy
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Janette Rallison: It's a Mall World After All, Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List, Life, Love, and the
Pursuit of Free Throws
Ellen Raskin: The Westing Game, Figgs & Phantoms
Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows
Carolyn Reeder: Shades of Gray
Celia Rees: Witch Child, Sorceress, The Wish House, The Vanished, The Cunning Man, Pirates!
David Rees: Storm Surge, Quintin's Man, In the Tent, Risks
Sarah Rees Brennan: The Demon's Lexicon, The Demon's Covenant
Philip Reeve: Mortal Engines Quartet, Larklight, Starcross, Here Lies Arthur
Morton Rhue: The Wave, Asphalt Tribe
Ann Rinaldi: A Break with Charity, The Last Silk Dress, Numbering All the Bones, Wolf by the Ears
Rick Riordan: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, The Red Pyramid, The Lost
Hero
Thomas Rockwell: How To Eat Fried Worms, How to Fight a Girl
Ginny Rorby: Dolphin Sky, Hurt Go Happy
Malcolm Rose: Traces series, The Death Gene, Plague, Transplant, The Tourtured Wood
Liz Rosenberg: Heart and Soul, 17: A Novel in Prose Poems
Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now, Just in Case, What I Was
J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter series, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Quidditch through the Ages, Fantastic Beasts and
Where to Find Them
Lois Ruby: Shanghai Shadows
Cynthia Rylant: Missing May
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Louis Sachar: Holes, Small Steps
Françoise Sagan: Bonjour Tristesse
J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey
Graham Salisbury: Shark Bait, Island Boyz, Lord of the Deep, Under the Blood Red Sun, Jungle Dogs, Eyes of the
Emperor
Alex Sánchez: Rainbow Boys, So Hard to Say, Getting It, The God Box
Kurtis Scaletta: Mudville, Mamba Point, The Tanglewood Terror
Ellen Schreiber: Vampire Kisses series
Elizabeth Scott: Bloom, Perfect You, Stealing Heaven, Living Dead Girl, Something Maybe, Love You Hate You
Miss You
Kieran Scott: I Was A Non-Blonde Cheerleader, Geek Magnet
Lisa See: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Marcus Sedgwick: The Book of Dead Days, The Dark Flight Down, Blood Red, Snow White, My Swordhand is
Singing
Darren Shan: The Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak) series, The Demonata series, The City series
Dyan Sheldon: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Sara Shepard: Pretty Little Liars series
Gena Showalter: Intertwined
Mark Shulman: Scrawl, Secret Hiding Places
Neal Shusterman: The Dark Side of Nowhere, Downsiders, The Schwa Was Here, Full Tilt
Marilyn Singer: The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth, Horsemaster
William Sleator (primarily high concept sci-fi): House of Stairs, Singularity, The Boy Who Reversed Himself,
Interstellar Pig
L. J. Smith: The Vampire Diaries, Night World, The Forbidden Game, The Secret Circle, Dark Visions
Sonya Sones: What My Mother Doesn't Know, What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
Gary Soto: The Afterlife, Baseball in April and other Stories, Living Up the Street
Ivan Southall: Josh, Ash Road, Hills End, To the Wild Sky, Bread and Honey, Fly West, the Simon Black series.
Beatrice Sparks (publishing as 'Anonymous'): Go Ask Alice, Jay's Journal
Nicholas Sparks: The Notebook, The Last Song, Dear John, A Walk To Remember
Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Eleanor Spence: The October Child, A Candle for St. Antony
Jerry Spinelli: There's a Girl in My Hammerlock, Crash, Stargirl
Nancy Springer: I am Mordred, I am Morgan le Fay, Blood Trail, Dussie
R. L. Stine: The Fear Street series
Shelly Stoehr: Tomorrow Wendy, Crosses
Laurie Faria Stolarz: Blue is for Nightmares, Project 17
Jonathan Stroud: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, The Leap
Rosemary Sutcliff: The Eagle of the Ninth, Warrior Scarlet, The Mark of the Horse Lord
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Janet Tashjian: The Gospel According to Larry, Vote for Larry
Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Land
Jean Thesman: Appointment with a Stranger, Cattail Moon, Calling the Swan, A Sea So Far
Joyce Carol Thomas: Marked by Fire
Rob Thomas: Rats Saw God
Kate Thompson: Annan Water, The Beguilers, The New Policeman
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
Sharon Tregenza: Tarantula Tide
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Vivian Vande Velde: Heir Apparent, User Unfriendly, Never Trust a Dead Man, A Coming Evil, Dragon's Bait, A
Well-Timed Enchantment
Cynthia Voigt: Homecoming, Dicey's Song, Come a Stranger, A Solitary Blue, Sons from Afar, Izzy, Willy-Nilly, Bad
Girls
Cecily von Ziegesar: The Gossip Girl series, The It Girl series
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Judy Waite: Shopaholic, Forbidden
Melissa Walker: Violet on the Runway, Violet by Design, Violet in Private, Lovestruck Summer
Jeannette Walls: The Glass Castle, Half-Broke Horses
James Watson: Talking in Whispers, Ticket to Prague, Justice of the Dagger, Fair Game: The Steps of Odessa;
plays for schools, Banned!, Tom Paine, This Was Your Life, Gotcha!, Wars-R-Us.Co
Catherine Webb: Mirror Dreams, Mirror Wakes, Timekeepers, Waywalkers
Jean Webster: Daddy-Long-Legs, Dear Enemy
Rosemary Wells: Through the Hidden Door
Nancy Werlin: Are You Alone on Purpose, The Killer's Cousin, Locked Inside, Black Mirror, Double Helix, The Rules
of Survival
Scott Westerfeld: Midnighters trilogy, Peeps, The Last Days, Uglies series
Elie Wiesel: Night
Terry Lee Wilde: The Vampire...In My Dreams, Deidre's Secret
Lili Wilkinson: Scatterheart
Ellen Wittlinger: Heart on My Sleeve, Hard Love, What's in A Name
Virginia Euwer Wolff: True Believer, Making Lemonade
Christopher Wooding: Broken Sky, The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, Storm Thief, Poison, Kerosene, End Game
Jacqueline Woodson: Miracle's Boys
Patricia C. Wrede: Enchanted Forest Chronicles
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Gene Luen Yang: American Born Chinese
Laurence Yep: Liar Liar, The Lost Garden
Jane Yolen: The Pit Dragon Trilogy, Briar Rose, The Devil's Arithmetic
David Yoo: Girls for Breakfast, Stop Me if You've Heard This One Before
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Allen Zadoff: Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have, My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies
Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Timothy Zhan: Dragonback series
Paul Zindel: The Pigman, The Pigman's Legacy, I Never Loved Your Mind, My Darling, My Hamburger, The
Pigman and Me (autobiography of his youth)
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief
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