From: Nancegar_at_aol.com <Nancegar>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:09:41 EST

An interesting and thought provoking article which was surely well intended, the definition of "Young Adult Literature" as "easy-to-read, short novels about teenagers and problems such as drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, domestic violence, divorced parents and bullying" is highly oversimplified, shows a real ignorance of good quality YA literature, and is highly offensive to me. >>

Hear, hear! I cringed when I read that part of the article -- but I do agree that the article is thought provoking. I guess, though, that its author hasn't heard about the recent efforts on the part of publishers and at least one YA author (I'm embarrassed I don't remember his name!) to encourage boys to read. But we do need to do more of that; despite the fact that there are indeed excellent YAs featuring boys, I suspect it's true that many boys need to be encouraged more vigorously to discover them.

Nancy Garden

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Received on Thu 27 Jan 2005 03:09:41 PM CST