The problem with flops is that they scare studios away from risky films and the movie-viewing public ends up with an endless procession of sequels and films based on best-selling young adult books.
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The teenagers request young adult books from the Latin American classics to modern international literature such as Harry Potter and the Twilight saga and there is one very talented young artist who lends books on Leonardo DaVinci and drawing techniques.
Adult hardback books, meanwhile, are off 1.5% since 1997, a sign of the increasing amount of people's leisure time eaten up by the Web, DVDs and the proliferation of television channels.
Many who hopped on board the Hogwarts Express for the first time in the late 1990s are now old enough to drive -- and handle adult themes in the books they read.
"It's important for one reason to make them more confident and also to enhance their vocabulary and their language, because as an adult you can read books that are a little more difficult or challenging and they become familiar with the text and that sort of literature, " he said.
Amazon said the acquisition creates the foundation for Amazon Publishing to further expand into picture books, chapter books and young adult novels.
As the movie industry looks around desperately for new sources of content to adapt for films that will keep audiences filling theater seats, one particular source of inspiration has risen to the forefront alongside comic books: young adult novels .
Martin has sold millions books and launched a successful young adult franchise: The Babysitters Club.
In other words, a city can't ban adult bookstores because it doesn't like the books it sells.
In 2009, Global Action Week will focus on youth and adult literacy and lifelong learning with the slogan "Open Books - Open Doors".
"It is our responsibility to introduce classics to the next generation, because there's such a flood of new titles on the book market right now, especially in young adult literature, and we have to make sure that the books that we love go into the hands of our own children, " Blume tells Linda Wertheimer.
As the books evolve, Harry's biggest challenge becomes confronting adult weakness.
Mr. Kim, according to some biographical books, changed his birth year to 1942 as an adult so he could celebrate decade-milestone birthdays in the same year as his father, who was born in 1912.
For example, Nook users who buy the first book in a popular series like "Fifty Shades of Grey" or "Divergent, " a young-adult series by Veronica Roth, tend to tear through all the books in the series, almost as if they were reading a single novel.
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