What Does Today’s YA Offer to Readers?
“It’s not just that young adult contains growingly diverse characters, though it does, or that it pushes the limits on sexuality, gender, and identity — though it does, in books like Every Day, Adaptation, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Liar, and Cinder. This is literature that is willing to be radical, to put forward the brave new worlds we once searched for in adult science fiction and fantasy. In the world of young adult literature, there are fewer boundaries and the limits are constantly shifting, thanks in no small part to the fact that it was once such a maligned genre, allowing editors to take more risks on it.”
