My thoughts on YA books, as captured through Twitter. The Lost Angeles Review of Books has a good article responding to the #yasaves hashtag and the original inspiration for it- I won’t deign to give the original Wall Street Journal a linkback here.
In case you (for some reason) don’t know, I want to be a librarian. I will probably end up being a YA librarian, as these are my favorite books and the librarians I had in middle school and high school ended up being wonderful role models for me. The subject of YA books, and why they are so important as a genre, is a personal one for me.
So, direct from my Twitter account (and reordered for clarity), here it is:
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YA books inspire me, intrigue me, influence me and infect me. They are my port in a storm, if that port is Chicago and Vegas in one #yasaves
10 minutes agoI believe it’s important to write about *everything* in YA books so that kids can learn about stuff safely and explore new thoughts #yasaves
9 minutes agoYA books need to have dark stuff so kids who are too scared/depressed to talk about their own darkness have somewhere to turn. #yasaves
9 minutes agoYA books are that vital turning point from sheltered learning to open learning. If not in books, *where*? #yasaves @wsj
7 minutes agoPlus, YA books don’t get too bogged down in overarching messages and preaching about life. It’s about concepts, not *lessons* #YAsaves @wsj
5 minutes agoWhy do people want teenagers to not learn about the darkness in the world, and then expect college students to be responsible? #yasaves @wsj
4 minutes agoTwo more #yasaves tweets for now: YA books are my favorite to read. They aren’t trying to be High Literature, they’re just stories. @wsj
1 minute agoAnd the stories that we read and love and read again are the most important ones to learn from, no matter what they contain. #yasaves @wsj
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