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…