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Building a YA Library, Part II
Alright, so presumably by now you’ve had time to read all the classic YA books I listed in the first part of this blog post series. I mean, it’s been a while, right? No? You didn’t? It’s okay. There’s a lot of YA out there. In fact, this is a seriously prolific genre. It’s not the romance genre, but there’s still a TON of great literature targeted at young adults, and it’s been like that since the advent of Twilight and Harry Potter. So let’s suppose you at least skimmed through my post on Classic YA novels, and you want to move on. Well, good news! YA blew up in…
Building a YA Library, Part I
I could, and will at some point, devote an entire blog entry to why I think young adult literature is wildly underrated by those who believe that anything written for a target audience 18 and under cannot possibly have the depth or sophistication that a book written for a mature audience could have. This is an uneducated perspective, and, in my humble opinion, a major mistake. But for my first substantive blog post on this subject, what I want to do is show not tell. This post isn’t about why you should be reading YA. It’s what you should be reading if you want to begin reading YA. So let’s…