American Young Adult Novels (Book Guide) - Tunnel in the Sky, Rocket Ship Galileo, the Rolling Stones, Starman Jones (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 179. Chapters: House of Night, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, Bless Me, Ultima, Fearless (novel series), The Hardy Boys, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The Phantom Stallion, Lad, A Dog, Maximum Ride, The Hunger Games, Antiquitas Lost, The Princess Diaries, Left Behind: The Kids, Eragon, The Morganville Vampires, Breaking Dawn, Gossip Girl (novel series), Pretty Little Liars, Speak (novel), The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Blu's Hanging, Uglies, The Sea of Monsters, Unwind (novel), The Lightning Thief, Mockingjay, The Monstrumologist, The Chocolate War, Catching Fire, The Kiesha'ra Series, City of Bones (Mortal Instruments), Garden of Shadows, The House of the Scorpion, The Fox and the Hound (novel), Feed (Anderson novel), Fire Study, Milkweed (novel), Further Adventures of Lad, Homecoming (novel), The Titan's Curse, Divergent (novel), Maniac Magee, My Side of the Mountain, Daughters of the Moon, Freaky Green Eyes, A Walk to Remember (novel). Excerpt: House of Night is a series of vampire-themed fantasy novels by American author P. C. Cast and her daughter Kristin Cast. It follows the adventures of Zoey Redbird, a sixteen-year-old girl who has just become a "fledgling vampyre" and is required to attend the House of Night boarding school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The series has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for 63 weeks and there are over seven million copies in print in North America alone. The sixth novel, Tempted, which went on sale on October 27, 2009 with a first printing of a million copies, entered the USA Today bestseller list that week at #1. In January, 2010, Gezeichnet, a German translation of Marked, reached the #1 spot on the Der Spiegel bestseller list. The series has so far sold more than ten million books in 39 countries. Burned was released on April 27, 2010, and like Tempted, it entered the USA Today bestseller list that week at #1. Awakened, released in January, 2011, also entered the list at #1. The series, which is published by St Martin's Press is planned to include twelve books. In 2008, plans for a film adaptation were also announced. The tenth book in the series, Hidden, was released on October 16, 2012. The second book in the novellas (which give backgrounds on supporting characters), Lenobia's Vow, was released January 31, 2012. Book eleven is currently called Revealed, and the Casts have announced that two more novellas, Neferet's Curse, planned to be released February 19, 2013, and a prequel novel about Kalona, are to be released to coincide with the eleventh and twelfth books. (NOTE: Instead of vampire, the authors use the variant spelling vampyre throughout the book series. This convention is also applied to the words vampyric and vampyrism.) In the fictional world of House of Night, a small percentage of the world's teenagers are changed into vampyres when adolescent hormones trigger a strand of what is otherwise junk DNA. The change from human to vampyre takes four years, d