Deborah J. Ross (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
deborahjross) wrote2011-06-05 08:19 am
deborahjross) wrote2011-06-05 08:19 am
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Hooray for YA!
Literary agent Janet Reid on why she refuses to apologize or feel like a second-class person for reading, representing and selling YA books. She comes up with a great list of the reasons so many of us think YA books are important and why we love them:
Cause in the world I live in, kids are people too, and reading this kind of "crap" is how they learn to be people in the real world.
Cause YA is about kids learning that bad stuff can happen to good people. If something bad happens to you, it's not cause you ARE bad.
Cause YA is about kids learning to be brave.
Cause YA is about kids learning to affect their own lives, not just be affected.
Cause YA is about kids failing, and not giving up.
Cause YA is about being able to read about fearsome frightening things, and come out on the other side unscathed.
Cause in the world I live in, kids are people too, and reading this kind of "crap" is how they learn to be people in the real world.
Cause YA is about kids learning that bad stuff can happen to good people. If something bad happens to you, it's not cause you ARE bad.
Cause YA is about kids learning to be brave.
Cause YA is about kids learning to affect their own lives, not just be affected.
Cause YA is about kids failing, and not giving up.
Cause YA is about being able to read about fearsome frightening things, and come out on the other side unscathed.