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Sweet Dreams (novel Series)
''Sweet Dreams'' is a series of over 230 numbered, stand-alone teen romance novels that were published from 1981 to 1996. Written by mostly American writers, notable authors include Barbara Conklin, Janet Quin-Harkin, Laurie Lykken, Marilyn Kaye (writing under the pseudonym Shannon Blair), and Yvonne Greene. Each teen novel dealt with common high school drama and romance themes, including first dates, first love, and conflicts. It was through these books that the major teen book series Sweet Valley High was launched. Cover designs used photographs of models similar to each novel's heroine's description.The cover of ''The Last Word'' featured Courteney Cox. Works Sweet Dreams # P.S. I Love You – Barbara Conklin # The Popularity Plan – Rosemary Vernon # Laurie's Song – Suzanne Rand # Princess Amy – Melinda Pollowitz # Little Sister – Yvonne Green # California Girl – Janet Quin-Harkin # Green Eyes – Suzanne Rand # The Thoroughbred – Joanne Campbell # Cover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Adult Romance Literature
Young adult romance literature is a genre of books written for teenagers. As defined by Romance Writers of America, a romance novel consists of a central love story and an emotionally satisfying ending. Early young adult romances feature a teenage protagonist, who is typically female, white, and middle-class, while books in the twenty-first century include a wider variety of protagonists. Young adult romances were very popular in the 1950s and early 1960s, but were supplanted by more realistic young adult novels in the late 1960s and 1970s. Romances became popular again in the 1980s, although the trend at that time was toward series by publisher brand rather than individual authors. Subgenres for young adults, such as paranormal romance, evangelical romance, and dystopian romance, became popular in the twenty-first century. Parents and educators often criticized the reading of romances, but at their best, young adult romance novels celebrate relationships. 1950s and 1960s The succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Quin-Harkin
Janet Quin-Harkin (born 24 September 1941, Bath, Somerset) is an author best known for her mystery novels for adults written under the name Rhys Bowen. Career Before she began writing novels, Quin-Harkin worked in the drama department of the British Broadcasting Corporation in London and, later, for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney, Australia. She also worked as a drama teacher and a dance teacher. In 1981, she wrote one of the first six books with which Bantam launched the Sweet Dreams series. In the 1990s Quin-Harkin began writing mystery novels for adults under the name Rhys Bowen. She has written three series under this name: one featuring British aristocrat Lady Georgiana ("Georgie") in 1930s England; one featuring Irish immigrant Molly Murphy working as a private detective in early 1900s New York City; and one featuring a Welsh police constable named Evan Evans. She is also author of the Boyfriend Club series for young adults featuring four freshmen g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Kaye
Marilyn Kaye (born July 19, 1949 Commire, Anne, 1989, ''Something About the Author'', Gale, p. 78, .) is an American children's writer. She taught children's literature at St. John's University, New York.Children's literature ''New York Times''. She is the author of over 100 children's and young adult novel series, including the successful ''Replica'' and ''Gifted'' series. Biography Marilyn Kaye was born in 1949 in . She spent most of her childhood in |
Secondary School
A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., both levels 2 and 3 of the International Standard Classification of Education, ISCED scale, but these can also be provided in separate schools. There may be other variations in the provision: for example, children in Australia, Hong Kong, and Spain change from the primary to secondary systems a year later at the age of 12, with the ISCED's first year of lower secondary being the last year of primary provision. In the United States, most local secondary education systems have separate Middle school#United States, middle schools and High school in the United States, high schools. Middle schools are usually from grades 6–8 or 7–8, and high schools are typically from grades 9–12. In the United Kingdom, most state schools and P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet Valley High
''Sweet Valley High'' is a series of young adult novels attributed to American author Francine Pascal, who presided over a team of ghostwriters to produce the series. The books chronicle the lives of identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, who live in the fictional Sweet Valley, California, a suburb near Los Angeles. The twins and their friends attend Sweet Valley High. The series began in 1983, and concluded twenty years later after the publication of 181 books. The books are generally classified as young adult or children's fiction and belong mostly to the genre of soap opera, romance novel or fantasy-adventure. The series quickly gained popularity and spawned several spin-off series, including '' Sweet Valley Senior Year'' and ''Sweet Valley University'', as well as a television adaptation. In July 2017, a film adaptation was also announced. The novels ''Sweet Valley Confidential'' and ''The Sweet Life'', which follow the characters as adults, were published in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courteney Cox
Courteney Bass Cox (born June 15, 1964) is an American actress and producer. She rose to international prominence by playing Monica Geller in the NBC sitcom ''Friends'' (1994–2004) and Gale Weathers in the horror film franchise '' Scream'' (1996–present). Her accolades include a Screen Actors Guild Award, nominations for two Emmy Awards a Golden Globe Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Cox had a recurring role in the NBC sitcom '' Family Ties'' (1987–1989), and starred in the FX drama series ''Dirt'' (2007–2008), the ABC/ TBS sitcom ''Cougar Town'' (2009–2015), and the Starz horror comedy series '' Shining Vale'' (2022–2023). Her film credits include the action fantasy ''Masters of the Universe'' (1987), the comedy '' Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'' (1994), the animated comedy '' Barnyard'' (2006), the fantasy comedy '' Bedtime Stories'' (2008), and the independent drama '' Mothers and Daughters'' (2016). Cox owned the production company Coquette Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvonne Green
Yvonne Green (8 April 1957 – 16 April 2024) was an English poet, translator, writer and barrister. Life and career Green (née Mammon) who lived in Hendon and Herzliya, was born in Finchley, north London on April 8th 1957. She was an Orthodox Jew, of Bukharian Jewish ancestry. Her maternal grandparents left the city of Bukhara and settled in Alexandria, Egypt in the early 20th century following the Russian Revolution. They were expelled from Egypt in 1956, and then settled in London, where Yvonne's paternal Bukharian Jewish grandparents had been living; they similarly left Bukhara following the rise of the Soviet Union, but settled in London instead. She attended the Henrietta Barnett School and then went on to study law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Green was called to the Bar in New York and England and first practiced in New York at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy and the Legal Aid Society and later in London in the Inner Temple but retired as a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thoroughbred (series)
''Thoroughbred'' is a series of young-adult novels that revolves around Kentucky Thoroughbred racing and equestrianism. The series was started in 1991 by Joanna Campbell (better known as Jo Ann Simon, previously Haessig), and numbered 72 books, in addition to several "super editions" and a spin-off series, ''Ashleigh'', by the time it ended in 2005. The series focuses on a group of core characters, primarily Ashleigh Griffen, Samantha McLean, Cindy Blake/McLean and Ashleigh's daughter Christina, as well as Christina's friends. The series originally followed the adventures of Ashleigh as she was growing up; when Ashleigh reached adulthood, the focus of the books shifted to young Samantha McLean. During Samantha's college and adult years, the books centered on Cindy Blake McLean, Samantha's adopted younger sister. Late in the series, there was a large "time gap" before the series focused on to a teenaged Christina and her cousin Melanie. The books, which are intended for a primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jocelyn Salter
Vice Admiral Jocelyn Stuart Cambridge Salter DSO & Bar OBE (24 November 1901 – 27 May 1989) was a Royal Navy officer who became Flag Officer, Malta. Naval career Salter joined the Royal Navy in 1915 and served in the First World War. He also served in the Second World War becoming commanding officer of the destroyer HMS ''Duncan'' in January 1940, commanding officer of the destroyer HMS ''Foresight'' in January 1941 and deputy director of Training and Staff Duties at the Admiralty in August 1942. He went on to be commanding officer of the destroyer HMS ''Mackay'' in June 1944 and commanding officer of the destroyer HMS ''Eglington'' in November 1944. After the War Salter became commanding officer of the RN Air Station at Sembawang in December 1945, Captain of HMNB Rosyth in March 1948 and commanding officer of the cruiser HMS ''Jamaica'' in March 1950. After that he became Flag Officer, Malta in September 1952 and Admiral Superintendent, HMNB Portsmouth His Majest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Woodruff
Eileen Goudge (pseudonyms Marian Woodruff and Elizabeth Merrit; born July 4, 1950, San Mateo, California) is an American author notable for her diverse literary contributions spanning romance, historical fiction, and children's literature. Her first novel for adults, ''Garden of Lies'' (1989), was a New York Times Best Seller. List of adult novels *''Garden of Lies'', Viking, 1989 *''Such Devoted Sisters'', Viking, 1992 *''Blessing in Disguise'', Viking, 1994 *''Trail of Secrets'', Viking, 1996 *''Thorns of Truth'', Penguin, 1998 *''One Last Dance'', Viking Penguin, 1999 *''The Second Silence'', Viking, 2000 *''Otherwise Engaged'', Pocket Books Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books. History Pocket Books produced the first Paperback#Mass market paperback, mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in the United States in early 1939 and ..., 2005 *''Immediate Family'', Pocket Books, 2006 References External linksOfficial websi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seer (Young Adult Novel Series)
The Seer Series is a paranormal young adult book series written by American novelist Linda Joy Singleton. There are six books in the series, the first being ''Don't Die Dragonfly''. The first five books are published by Llewellyn Publications, but the last is published by Flux. Witch Ball, the third book in the series was selected as a Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Quick Pick in 2007. Plot summary Don't Die Dragonfly After being expelled from her old school because of her psychic gift Sabine Rose moves in with her grandmother Nona who also has a "gift". Sabine tries to hide her psychic powers from her family and friends, but has a hard time coming off as a normal teen when her psychic guide Opal always seems to be present in her mind. She has a job in the school newspaper, and her best friend Penny-Love is a cheerleader. Opal tells Sabine that an unnamed girl is in danger, and keeps showing her visions of a dragonfly tattoo. Because of this Sabine is accused of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
