[LM_NET] Hit: Adult authors crossing over to YA lit

[Joan DW <joandw@GMAIL.COM>]

Thanks for your responses to my query.   Here is a list.  (If you think of
others, please drop me a note!)  I have included the authors name as well as
the latest YA novel they wrote.


Authors who have crossed over to the YA Lit side…



Isabel Allende   (Forest of the Pygmies, 2005)

Sherman Alexie   (Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, 2007)

Julia Alvarez  (Finding Miracles, 2004)

Clive Barker  (Abarat 2: Days of Magic,  Nights of War, 2004)

 Dave Barry (Peter and the Secret of Rundoon, 2007)
Jessica Blank
Russell Banks  (Rule of the Bone, 1995)
Philip Caputo (10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War, 2005)
Melody Carlson (Bright Purple: Color Me Confused, 2006)

Michael Chabon (Summerland, 2002)

Tom Clancy (Net Force series)

Helen Dunmore (Ingo, 2006)

John Feinstein (Last Shot, A Final Four Mystery, 2006)

Neil Gaiman  (Coraline, 2003, Anansi Boys, 2006)

Robin Jones Gunn  (actually began writing children's books and then moved up
to YA)

Joanne Harris (Rune Marks, 2007)

Carl Hiaasen (Hoot, 2002; Flush, 2005)

Charlie Higson (Hurricane Gold, Young Bond series, 2007)

Alice Hoffman (Incantation, 2006)

Nick Hornby – (Slam, 2007)

Ben Jeapes – (Vampire Plagues series under the pseudonym "Sebastian Rook",
2005)

Elmore Leonard (A Coyote's in the House, 2004)

Mike Lupica (Summer Ball, 2007)

Andy McNabb  (Meltdown, 2007 -Boy Soldier series)

China Mieville (Un Lun Dun, 2007)

Jacquelyn Mitchard (Now You See Her, 2007)

Walter Mosley  (47, 2006)

Joyce Carol Oates (After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and
Flew Away, 2006)

Janette Oke

Robert B. Parker (Edenville Owls, 2007)

James Patterson  (Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports,
2007)

Ridley Pearson (Steel Trapp: The Challenge, 2008)

Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson series:  The Battle of the Labyrinth, 2008)

Jeanette Winterson (Tanglewreck, 2006)

Rick Yancey  (Alfred Kropp series, The Seal of Solomon, 2007)







Joan Dyer-Westacott

The Mellon Library

The American School in London

London, England

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