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...fiction shelves groaning under the weight of cautionary tales about sex, drugs, divorce or delinquency, it's little wonder many young readers scurry off to the fantasy section instead. But one writer of teen fiction has proven herself both frank and frankly worth reading. Malorie Blackman's 2001 best seller Noughts and Crosses transcended the kid-lit clichés even as it staked out disputed new turf for youth fiction. Its 13-year-old black hero, Sephy, starts out French-kissing her 15-year-old white boyfriend, Callum; encounters racism, alcoholism, depression and suicide; and ends up pregnant...
...surprisingly big seller for TOKYOPOP is "Gravitation" by Maki Murakami. It falls into a splinter genre of shojo called shonen-ai, translated literally as "boy-love." Though targeted at girls, shonen-ai features the romantic relationship between two males, in this case between high-schooler and aspiring musician Shuichi and a slightly older romance novelist named Eiri Yuki. Though it features a passionate kiss, "Gravitation" and other shonen-ai never get sexually explicit. The appeal for girls seems to be in looking at two pretty boys entering into an untouchable romance. Though quite popular in Japan, very little shonen...
...Lavenham, England. Born Mary Margaret Kaye to British parents in preindependence India, she dabbled in amateur theater, but her passion was writing. Her richly detailed tale of a British orphan who is raised as a Hindu and falls in love with an Indian princess became an international best seller and a high-profile hbo miniseries...
...With the Wind; of unspecified natural causes; in Richmond, Va. She had written five historical novels before being selected by the estate of Margaret Mitchell to pen a sequel to the beloved Civil War saga. Published in 1991, Scarlett got poor reviews but spent 34 weeks on the best-seller list...
...fund managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). If Bruno needed to buy something, he had to appeal to the local BIA agent, and he was rarely given cash. When he wanted to buy a cow, the price was deducted from his account and given directly to the seller. When he bought groceries, he paid for them with a BIA voucher...