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Feb 11, 2021 · It’s true. Books don’t have a gender or (unless we’re talking about a rating based on appropriateness) an age. Society tells us that if we’re teenage girls, we read YA and grow into reading chick-lit. If we’re teenage boys, we read fantasy and grow into more sci-fi and fantasy.
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Oct 20, 2022 · Via Basic Books. By Gregory Berns. October 20, 2022. When it comes to reading, most people can identify a book (often one they read in adolescence) that changed the way they think. Stephen King has cited William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, which he encountered when he was twelve years old.
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Sep 22, 2022 · The school staff and children should vote if they should still read the book or put it in a young adults section for teens. Some may be inappropriate for young kids, but it doesn’t mean that we ...
Apr 29, 2019 · The reality is that our young people are changing in ways that are as imperceptible to them as to most adults, particularly in how, what, and why they read—the cornerstone of how most humans think for the last few centuries with the spread of literacy, as I discuss in my book Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century.
Nov 24, 2019 · Young adult literature is an AGE CATEGORY. It is not a genre. A story is not just YA. It is YA fantasy or YA contemporary or YA romance. If someone says they like to read young adult, they don’t often mean any YA book; they mean they read a specific genre of YA. It’s Not About Age: It’s About the Teenage Perspective
Jul 29, 2021 · So: Why read YA? Most of us grew up on YA fiction. From Nancy Drew to The Hunger Games, we're drawn to (and marketed to by) books whose characters look like us.
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Really, I say the category of Young Adult because Young Adult hasn't always existed as it does right now and it's been evolving over the past few decades. I want to ask Rebecca a question about what she read as a teenager, because there's a decade between us actually. Rebecca: Yeah. I was 14 in 2005 or so. That's exactly when Twilightcame out, so I...
Rebecca:Parul, that brings us to this discussion of what agents and editors are looking for. Are there any recent trends that you have found people are asking you specifically about? Parul: First of all, I am now a freelance editor. That's a point of distinction you might want to know when you're trying to hire an editor for these sorts of things. ...
Rebecca: So, Parul, what traits dosuccessful YA books have in common? Parul: I apologize if the title is a little bit clickbait-y, but we do want to pinpoint five traits. The word successful is obviously relatively arbitrary, but I guess when we looked at it we're looking at books that had stood the test of time. One that people bring up as a book ...
