Writing Young Adult Fiction

Da "Toy Story" agli "Avengers", da "Harry Potter" all'epica: come riconoscere i personaggi e le strutture comuni a ogni storia! Che cos'hanno in comune il tema in classe in cui racconti le tue vacanze, il ritorno di Ulisse a Itaca, le Instagram stories e l'appuntamento con la persona per la quale hai una cotta? Sono tutte storie, più o meno conosciute. E ogni buona storia, sin dall'alba dei tempi, segue delle regole precise e si regge su un'impalcatura invisibile. Ecco perché in tutte queste vicende ci sono sempre eroi o eroine destinati a vivere un'avventura, ma anche mentori, alleati.

Veronica hates that people assume she's prejudiced just because she looks white, even though her mother is black. Can she handle being rejected again? Can she get through the day fearing people will make another racial slur? When school finally ends, Veronica's excited to escape the small town and spend the summer on Cape Cod with her friend Sally. But as soon as they drive off, she learns a terrible secret about Sally's family. Once they arrive at the cottage, things go from weird to worse.

As a servant to her faith, Delphine has two jobs: use her magic to work miracles of healing, and remain devout to one man. When she delivers a child while in her 40s, the leaders of the community grow suspicious. Can she keep this girl's true heritage a secret, even if this girl carries a dangerous magical gift?

Language Arts teacher Mrs. Kelsey Swan randomly has her students pick a writing assignment to be completed in two weeks from a top hat. Seventeen-year-old Veronica "Vroni" Swan draws the legend of her two times great-grandfather having buried treasure somewhere in Swanson. Not only must she write about her family, but her partner on this assignment is the awkward Suzie Carmichael.

What will one day be known as the French-Eversole Feud (due west of the notorious Hatfields and McCoys) has ignited. Teenager Ezekiel Snopes must recover quickly from the loss of his younger sister - gunned down by a greedy feudist. He must now decide if he wants to live or die, remain at home, or take a stand against such lawlessness in the Appalachian hills.

Klaas, a young medical student, can no longer stand idly by. He sees how the Germans are persecuting the Jews and oppress the Dutch with brutal force and he joins the resistance. Nothing in his life as a medical student had prepared him for the life of danger surrounded by ruthless Nazis and Dutch traitors. But God is still there. Although Klaas is not so sure if he still believes in the God of love that he learned about as a child on the knee of his mother.

The world was cookie cutter ready for an alien invasion. Xenophen leveraged humanity's growing into a knowledge economy. To control us, they simply needed to offer a better education. Meet Ruth; a homeless woman whose only means of survival is serving humanity's destruction. As she sees mankind's noose slowly tightening, she scrapes for any means of escape. She flees with restricted knowledge, in the hope it can unravel our doom.