Both pioneers of realistic fiction for teens are masters of speaking to teens candidly and in their own language. Neither shy away from tough topics, high stakes, and real consequences....

Young adult realistic fiction as we know it would not exist without S.E. Hinton and Robert Cormier, whose books about thoughtful misfits questioning society changed the field forever...

Although they exemplify different eras of realistic fiction for youth, both S.E. Hinton and Jason Reynolds write character-driven novels that portray authentic teens sympathetically....

Realistic characters face trouble at home and in the streets in the work of Coe Booth and S.E. Hinton. Both authors speak for and through their characters in a way that empowers and...

Teens who have it tough respond to the work of S.E. Hinton and Sharon M. Draper because of the authenticity of their characters' voices and the high stakes situations their characters...

These authors' works have the appeal factors haunting and stylistically complex, and they have the genres "classics" and "page to screen"; and the subjects "teenage boys," "sixteen-year-old...

These authors' works have the appeal factors haunting, menacing, and angst-filled, and they have the genres "classics" and "page to screen"; and the subjects "teenagers," "seventeen-year-old...

These authors' works have the genre "horror"; and the subjects "teenage boys," "teenagers," and "sixteen-year-old boys."