Category Archives: Violence in YA lit

Bad Girls

Posted on June 9, 2018 by Lizzie Ross

E. Lockhart: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (2008), We Were Liars (2014), Genuine Fraud (2017) When Jane Austen created Emma Woodhouse, she noted that here was a character “whom no one but myself will much like”. Austen must have enjoyed making … Continue reading →

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Sherman Alexie on sad books

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Lizzie Ross

In a 2011 Wall Street Journal blog post, Sherman Alexie explains why YA books that address real issues of violence, death, sexuality, and other horrors need to be available for teen readers. Alexie was responding to an earlier WSJ article, by … Continue reading →

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