The Young Adult Genre

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Across
  1. 2. In 1939, 75 percent of 14- to 17-year-olds were enrolled in _________ ________. A decade earlier only 50 percent had been
  2. 3. adults and children (the latter becoming adults when they entered the ____________, sometimes at as young as age 10)
  3. 4. The genre fiction that was epidemic in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s could not hope to do that—and the Young Adult Services ___________ recognized it
  4. 11. at readers 12 to 18 years old, it sprang into being near the end of the _________ decade of the 1960s
  5. 12. How “Young Adult” Fiction ___________ With Teenage Culture in America
  6. 14. Such books were _______________ called “junior novels” and were typically sweet-spirited romances, a genre that defined the 1940s and 1950s
  7. 15. In 1971, Hinton wrote about drug abuse in That Was Then. This Is Now and in 1973 Alice Childress joined her with A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a _____________, which told a story of addiction
  8. 18. Young adult literature, as we know it today, has been an ___________ in evolution consonant with the evolution of the concept of the young adult itself.
  9. 19. In the ‘60s and ‘70s, books like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War told stories that dealt with complex ________ and social realities
Down
  1. 1. 17-year-old _____________ Jerry Renault steadfastly refuses to sell chocolates for his school—an act with dire consequences
  2. 5. The word first appeared in print in the ___________ 1941 issue of the magazine Popular Science Monthly
  3. 6. those of her _________ innovative fellow author Robert Lipsyte were in New York City.
  4. 7. And so, finally, young adults and their _____________ came together
  5. 8. Thereafter, the two designations—“teenager” and “young adult”—were typically used interchangeably by librarians and ____________
  6. 9. The world is changing, yet the authors of books for teen-agers are still 15 years ______ the times
  7. 10. That quintessential teenager Mickey Rooney became a star of the Andy Hardy ________, while Deanna Durbin emoted for girls
  8. 13. Boys were depicted as socially awkward, blushing, ____________, and accident-prone, while girls were giggly and boy-crazy
  9. 16. Seemingly overnight, a new _______, young adult literature, sprang into being
  10. 17. It wasn’t until 1970—three years after the formative publications of The Outsiders and The Contender—that a ________ emergent, serious young adult literature was recognized
  11. 20. In 1944, librarian Margaret Scoggin wrote a journal article introducing the _______, and arguing that the group constituted a new service population.