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Guest Post: Why Young Adult Novels Are So Dark (An Insider’s Perspective)
By Belle Allen, a high school senior A hundred years ago, the young adult (YA) genre did not exist. If children read novels, they read adult novels, simply because nothing else was available. The word teenager did not even exist … Continue reading
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