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Author Gillespie, John Thomas, 1928-

Title Characters in young adult literature / [compiled by] John T. Gillespie, Corinne J. Naden
Published Detroit : Gale Research, [1997]
©1997

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Description xiv, 535 pages ; 25 cm
Series Literature resource center
Literature resource center
Contents (cont'd) Mary Renault -- Anne Rice -- Ann Rinaldi -- Cynthia Rylant -- J.D. Salinger -- Ouida Sebastyen -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- William Sleator -- Berry Smith -- Elizabeth Goerge Speare -- Jerry Spinelli -- John Steinbeck -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Bram Stroker -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Rosemary Sutcliff -- Glendon Swarthout -- Amy Tan -- Mildred Taylor -- Theodore Taylor -- J.R.R. Tolkien -- Mark Twain -- Jules Verne -- Cynthia Voigt -- Kurt Vonnegut -- Alice Walker -- H.G Wells -- Barbara Wersba -- Robert Westall -- T.H White -- Patricia C. Wrede -- Richard Wright -- Laurence Yep -- Jane Yolen -- Paul Zindel
Douglas Adams -- Richard Adams -- Louisa May Alcott -- Lloyd Alexander -- Anonymous -- William Armstrong -- Isaac Asimov -- Margaret Atwood -- Jane Austen -- Avi -- James Baldwin -- Jay Bennett -- Francesca Lia Block -- Judy Blume -- Ray Bradbury -- Marion Zimmer Bradley -- Sue Ellen Bridgers -- Charlotte Bronte -- Bruce Brooks -- Terry Brooks -- Pearl S. Buck -- Olive Ann Burns -- Orson Scott Card -- Alden R. Carter -- Willa Cather -- Alice Childress -- Arthur C. Clarke -- Bill and Vera Cleaver -- Brock Cole -- Christopher and James Lincoln Collier -- Pam Conrad -- Pat Conroy -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Robert Cormier -- Stephen Crane -- Chris Crutcher -- Maureen Daly -- Danie Defoe -- Charles Dickens -- Peter Dickinson -- Franklin W.Dixon -- Arthur Conan Doyle -- Alexandre Dumas -- Daphne du Maurier -- Lois Duncan -- Ralph Ellison -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Paul Fleischman -- Esther Forbes -- Paula Fox -- Anne Frank -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Nancy Garden -- Jean Craighead Goerge -- William Golding -- Joanne Grrenberg -- Bette Greene -- Judith Guest -- Rosa Guy -- Virginia Hamilton -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ann Head -- Robert A. Heinlein -- Joseph Heller -- Ernest Hemingway -- Frank Herbert -- Hermann Hesse -- S.E. Hilton -- Isabelle Holland -- Aldous Huxley -- Brian Jacques -- Diana Wynne Jones -- Carolyn Keene -- M.E. Kerr -- Ken Kesey -- Stephen King -- Joseph Knowles -- Harper Lee -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Madeleine L'Engle -- Myron Levoy -- Robert Lipsyte -- Jack London -- Lois Lowry -- Margaret Mahy -- Harry and Norma Mazer -- Anne McCaffrey -- Robin McKinley -- Margaret Mitchell -- Toni Morrison -- Walter Dean Myers -- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor -- John Neufeld -- Joan Lowery Nixon -- Robert C. O'Brien -- Scott O'Dell -- Goerge Orwell -- Katherine Paterson -- Gary Paulsen -- Richard Peck -- Robert Newton Peck -- Meredith Ann Pierce -- Sylvia Plath -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Charles Portis -- Chaim Potok -- Philip Pullman -- Ayn Rand -- Erich Maria Remargue
Summary Discusses characters from literary works for young adults. Offers insights into characterization, author intention, and narrative
Analysis Characters and characteristics in literature
Young adult literature -- Book reviews
Young adult literature -- Stories, plots, etc
Youth -- Books and reading
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Original 535 p
Subject Characters and characteristics in literature.
Young adult literature -- Stories, plots, etc.
Young adult literature -- Book reviews.
Youth -- Books and reading.
Genre/Form Plot summaries.
Author Naden, Corinne J.
LC no. 97004998
ISBN 0787604011 (alk. paper)