![]() ![]() ![]() After all, a young person, no matter how smart or insightful, is still a young person until they have some proof - a license, a degree, something concrete - that certifies that they’ve moved on.ĭuring your teen years, your age feels like a cage, and you might try anything to get out. You can’t help the hormones, and you can’t always help how people around you act, either. An understanding of those painfully awkward years and how young adults want to talk about them is at the core of good YA lit, and this is what so few authors have mastered.ĭespite the relative difficulty of the genre, many skeptics of young adult literature are exasperated by its very existence, saying, “Those kids need to GROW UP and learn what real problems are like!” The thing is, you can’t force people to grow up - it’s not just a state of mind, it’s a biological and a social process. It brings to mind melodramatic, hormonal outbursts, unrealistic notions of love, and an inflated sense of self-importance.Īctually, that’s pretty accurate, if you’re looking for a realistic characterization of what our pre-teen and teenage years were like. MANILA, Philippines – The term “young adult literature” has a bad rap. ![]()
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