Young adult and children's books
The young readers' group mixes middle-grade fantasy, teenage realism and a couple of picture-book texts. Julie Lytle's Faylinn followed eleven-year-old Quinn Butler McEwan on a Washington State island with an enchanted tree beyond her backyard. Pamela L. Laskin's Visitation was about Pati, nearly thirteen and newly arrived in Park Slope, Brooklyn, keeping up an elaborate invented identity. K.R. Levin's The Kids from Folden was science fiction for the juvenile market, set in 2105 after pollution and bio-wars had driven people from the surface of the Earth.
Robert W. Beard's The Runaway put a twelve-year-old alone in Apalachicola on the Florida Panhandle, where a man living on a boat took him in. Wes Phelan's Soul of the Beast sent an English teenager, an Irish convict's son and a Buddhist monk after a large blue diamond. For younger children there were Laura Scandalis Cross's When Time Was Young, a fable of circles, squares and lines, and Jean Murr's Kelley's Best Day, told by a Border Collie. Linda Regula-Warren's Twilight Returns to Noah's Mountain opened a planned trilogy drawn from her own mountain childhood.
- BEARDYoung adult adventureThe RunawayRobert W. BeardTwelve-year-old Timmy Keaton runs away from a troubled home to Apalachicola, Florida, and sails with an older man named Robin toward…
- CROSSChildren's picture bookWhen Time Was YoungLaura Scandalis CrossIn a land of primary colors, yellow circles, red squares and blue lines turn on one another until three contestants must find the magic…
- GUTHRIEYoung adultMystic Red -- Return of the Spirit GuideJean Neff GuthrieRed Donovan spoke to a spirit guide as a small child, sent him away at her parents' insistence, and as a teenager struggles with divorce…
- LASKINYoung adult fictionVisitationPamela L. LaskinPati, about to turn thirteen, has moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn and built a story that her stepmother is her real mother. Every Saturday…
- LEVINScience fiction for young adultsThe Kids from FoldenK.R. LevinIn 2105, seven young students and their bus driver break down in the Junk Zone and find an abandoned space station run by a computer called…
- LUCASYoung adult fictionWATERTIMEJay Harris LucasRetired engineer Richard Pensler carries guilt over his son's death and begins to open up while fishing with his twelve-year-old grandson,…
- LYTLEYoung adult fantasyFaylinnJulie LytleEleven-year-old Quinn Butler McEwan lives on an island in northwestern Washington, beside an enchanted tree called Faylinn where fairies…
- JEANChildren's bookKelley's Best DayJean MurrA rhyming story told by Kelley, a Border Collie, who recalls hoping to be chosen from a litter and winning over a new family.
- PHELAN2Young adult adventureSoul of the BeastWes PhelanEnglish teen John Sexton, Irish convict's son Mick Kelly and the Himalayan monk Zhong search for a mystical blue diamond while hunted by an…
- WARRENYoung adult fantasyTwilight Returns to Noah's MountainLinda Regula-WarrenFirst in a trilogy, loosely based on the author's childhood. Nine-year-old Lindy Cooper escapes poverty on Noah's Mountain through her…
- ROSEYoung adult fictionThe Mirror With Nine LivesRobert G. RoseMiddle schooler Alex Chauncey faces her parents' separation, with grandparents as the thread through three linked stories.
Questions
Were any of these published?
None of the young adult or children's listings carried a publisher on the agency's site. When Time Was Young was the only title the agency placed on its Other Works showcase page in 2003.
Where do the picture-book texts belong?
The agency labelled them Children's. The archive keeps them with young adult because the agency's showcase had no separate children's category, and the group is small.