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From Slate:
The article that kicked off the firestorm: adults should be embarrassed to read YA, says Ruth Graham. Click here  
From Nerve:
An author's fanciful crusade to defend the YA category (spoiler alert: Ruth Graham turns into a vampire, gets pregnant at prom). Click here
From the Atlantic:
The adult lessons of YA fiction. Click here
From the Atlantic:
Of course YA books can be complex, and that's nothing new: 1994's Dive by Stacey Donovan, for one. Click here
From the Hollywood Reporter:
The Fault in Our Stars opened to $48.2m last weekend, trouncing Tom Cruise's Edge of Tomorrow. Click here
From BuzzFeed:
Why TFIOS is better on the page than on the screen. Click here
From the Bookseller:
The newly combined Penguin Random House children's division in the U.K. announced five senior appointments, including rights director, art director, and marketing director. Click here
From Bustle:
On what would have been Maurice Sendak's 86th birthday, seven life lessons from Where the Wild Things Are. Click here |
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From Bookish:
"No, I am not embarrassed to feel emotions so strongly that they bowl me over": in support of adults reading YA. Click here
From the Atlantic:
The Fault in Our Stars Is Not Young-Adult Fiction's Savior: "YA doesn't need rescuing. All it needs is a change in the way people talk about it." Click here
From New York:
The dudes who read YA fiction. Click here
From the Washington Post:
Ashamed of reading young adult novels? The fault lies not in our stars but in our stores. Click here
From Boston:
Lori Earl, whose daughter Esther inspired The Fault in Our Stars, reflects on the movie's release. Click here
From USA Today:
Five TFIOS changes that were made from page to screen. Click here
From CBS Los Angeles:
The widow of Leon Leyson, author of The Boy on the Wooden Box, donated 2,100 copies to a Calif. school district on learning that students were given a controversial assignment on the Holocaust. Click here
From E Online:
The Lunar Chronicles, Shatter Me, and other YA series and novels with movies in the works. Click here |
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