From: Merri Lindgren <mlindgren_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:00:32 -0600

The second half of November has arrived and it's time to move on to a new discussion topic:* Who Invited Them? Adults as Main Characters in Literature for Teens.

*Library tradition has long maintained that teens enjoy reading books with characters their own age or a little bit older. But we've recently noticed an aging of some YA protagonists, from the young-ish adult women of /Code Name Verity/ by Elizabeth Wein to the 75-year-old narrator of Aidan Chamber's /Dying to Know You./ Is this a response to the expanding audience for young adult fiction? What do teen readers have to say about it?

Let's hear your thoughts about YA books with older main characters.

Merri

-- Merri Lindgren, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) School of Education / UW-Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street Madison, WI 53706 608-263-3930
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