Her books received many rewards and honors. ... The Outsiders was chosen by the New York Herald Tribune as one of the best teen-age books for 1967, and received the Media & Methods Maxi Award in 1975. Both books were selected as Honor Books in the Chicago Tribune Book World's Children's Spring Book Festival. Hinton enjoyed reading books as an adolescent, but was dismayed to find only a small segment of a teen-ager's life depicted in literature. ... Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints. ...

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One of his favourite books that he read during his teen years was the Classical Dictionary by Sir William Smith. ... After this novel was produced, Hugh MacLennan continued to write several more books. ... Hugh MacLennan continued to write several more books, including The Precipice, Each Man's Son, The Watch That Ends the Night, Return of the Sphinx, and Voices in Time. ... When MacLennan began writing novels as a career, he was one of the first great Canadian authors, since 98% of the books sold in Canada were imported and only 2% were produced by Canadian authors. ... Besides the f...

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There are significant numbers of books that have been titled as masterpieces all across the country today. They may be children, adult, or teen books. ...

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"It's a crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture" (Ordinary People 183). In Judith Guest's novel, Ordinary People, she unravels the truth of a modern family, exposing every crack and secret t...

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