From: Dotti Enderle <enderle>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 15:56:37 -0500

I prefer "edgy" YAs. Catherine Atkins' WHEN JEFF COMES HOME is probably one of the best I've read, and the subject matter quite taboo. First and foremost, books should be entertaining, but I think books teetering on the edge are a safe way for kids to experience scary things.

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  This calls to mind a question from an undergraduate in the education department of a college I spoke at recently, who asked about difficult subjects in y/a literature as "appropriate to the healthy development of a young person."
  In the discussion that followed, the following additional questions were counterposed:
  what's healthy?
  which young person?
  So I'd like to follow in the same vein and counterpose the question: whose edge does this edginess describe?




  Jennifer Armstrong
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Received on Thu 01 May 2003 03:56:37 PM CDT