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|name=Eleanor Patrick
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|comment=Totally agree with Gillian. The YA category should have existed long ago to bridge a gap in suitable books. The stories are better than most adult books these days anyway. They offer young people such a wide scope of alternative possibilities to think about - putting into words what they may have had at the back of their mind but not verbalised even to themselves. We all need to live a second or third life vicariously. And imagination, fully developed, is at the basis of all successful living, creativity, invention, fulfilling social relationships and sheer wonder at life and death. Many of the teens I work with therapeutically do not read. This started long before they were YA and they are now missing out on a wonderful mountain of YA books, which is sad. Perhaps we need more YA books couched in easier language but with issues that YA want to read about. I think they call it Hi-Lo? Hi interest, lower reading age? Just reading Amber now, btw! Great post.
Eleanor
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