Top Ten Tuedsday ~ Authors we will be studying in YA 101

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by 

The Broke and the Bookish. 

This weeks topic: Top Ten Authors we will be studying in YA 101

We decided to take this prompt a little differently and instead of focusing on specific books, we will be doing authors that we will be studying this semester.

Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer, the author of the ever popular Twilight series, will be our focus while talking about building unique family relationships in a supernatural world.

Suzanne Collins

Dystopian has become such a popular YA genre we will be looking at the world of The Hunger Games where Suzanne Collins showed her ability to crate an eerily realistic dystopian government in Panem.   

Katie McGarry

While looking at Katie McGarry's Pushing the Limits series, we will discover Katie's ablilty to  bring us relevent teen fiction tackling topics that apply to today's teens in a realistic manner.

Colleen Houck
Colleen Houck has a unique flair for blending her beautiful stories with a great deal of history and lore.  We will look at her ability to do just that in this segment of our course.





Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen has the profound ability to write YA novels that deal with change through adversity in the lives of her characters.  We will look at her carrier spanning nearly 10 years and how she has stayed relevant through the last decade.



Amy Plum
In Amy Plum's Revenants series she has written a modern day Paris that gives you the feeling of walking with her characters through the Paris streets.  We will study her ability to write such a vivid backdrop.





Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare has composed a world within our world filled with all forms of paranormal characters.  We will look at the merging of these characters living within such unique society.

Tiffany King

Tiffany King has the uncanny ability to write many YA genres.  From her paranormal Saving Angels and Jordyn series, to her emotional Forever Changed and Wishing For Someday Soon, we will look at her writing capabilities to cover such a wide spectrum of writing within the YA world.




Rachel Harris

Rachel Harris has brilliantly crossed the present and the past with her brilliant My Super Sweet 16th Century Series.  We will look at the art of going from present to past, and back to the present with her unique style and flare.



Richelle Mead
Author of both the Vampire Academy and Bloodlines series, we will look at her ability to keep momentum through both of these series, interweaving story lines and crossing characters between both while keeping up fresh and exciting material.






That's our list for this week!  What books and authors are on your list this week?