I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' makes people immediately discount it. And just like with books that get written for adults, there is plenty of young adult literature that is bad. But there is also plenty of young adult literature that is brilliant.
As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.
I had never heard of 'young adult novels,' which I guess are about teenage gangs and the new boy in town or something.
Richelle Mead's 'Vampire Academy' saga is set to be the next young adult paranormal series to become a household name.
Young adult author Richelle Mead holds the distinction to perhaps be the only author ever to have a book banned... before it was even written.
I was under the impression that if you've read one vampire series for young adults, you've read them all.
I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way.
I picture Generation X as young adults living in a state of perpetual adolescence.
