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"With Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 opening this week, it got me thinking about all of the books that have recently been turned into movie and TV scripts \u2013 Meg Cabot&amp;#039;s The Princess Diaries, Cecily von Ziegesar&amp;#039;s Gossip Girl, and Sophie Kinsella&amp;#039;s Confessions of a Shopaholic (out in February 2009). And who could forget the December release of the much-anticipated Twilight adaptation, which has prompted tons of &amp;quot;Team Edward&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Team Jacob&amp;quot; T-shirts.  The book-to-movie phenomenon seems to have skyrocketed in the past couple of years, with big-name producers buying the rights to books as soon as they hit the bestseller lists. The FAQ section of an author&amp;#039;s Web site always includes a &amp;quot;When will The Clique/Au Pairs/A Great and Terrible Beauty be made into a movie?&amp;quot; (For the record, Lisi Harrison&amp;#039;s The Clique is being made into a straight-to-DVD film, Melissa de la Cruz has mentioned that the rights have been bought to Au Pairs, and there&amp;#039;s an IMDb page for Libba Bray&amp;#039;s A Great and Terrible Beauty.) Every film version of a popular book sparks huge debates over author involvement, plot tweaks, and the most important thing: casting. The IMDb message boards explode with &amp;quot;Who should play ___?&amp;quot; posts when a new movie adaptation is announced. I count myself among those people who get emotionally attached to books and am very critical about changes made in on-screen versions, but I usually end up liking adaptations simply because it&amp;#039;s another way to enjoy my favorite characters and stories. But I think the coolest thing about these book-to-screen changes is that many of them are powered by girls. Sure, the Harry Potter and Chronicles of Narnia series have worldwide appeal, but the original books weren&amp;#039;t targeted only for females. Even though there&amp;#039;s a whole genre of young adult fiction devoted to backstabbing girls who wear designer clothing, there are books/movies to which girls can really relate: How to Deal combined Sarah Dessen&amp;#039;s themes of acceptance and romance, and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is all about friendship and independence. My point is that I love it when movies are made from teen books. Maybe the plots and characters will change, but it&amp;#039;s cool to see a re-imagining of a novel from someone else&amp;#039;s point of view. Not to mention that it&amp;#039;s a way to share a story with people who might not have even heard of it. And it&amp;#039;s way fun to make imaginary cast lists for movies-from-books before the real actors sign on.  What books do you want to be made into movies? Who would you choose as the cast in your favorite book? Starry eyed, Allyson Ayers Editorial Intern "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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