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The Rise of Young Adult Fiction

April 11, 2012 by Leanne Sowul Leave a Comment

The other day, while reading the NY Times online, I stumbled across this brief, interesting article by Patricia McCormick, a young adult fiction author: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/ The article begins: If “Harry Potter” made it safe for grown-ups to read kids’ books, “The Hunger Games” has made it cool. Why are so many adults reading young adult […]

Filed Under: Books, Writing Tagged With: authors, creativity, fiction, harry potter, hunger games, library, marketing, New York Times, novels, writing, YA, young adult

A Book That Disappointed Me- Part 2

September 6, 2011 by Leanne Sowul Leave a Comment

My second disappointing book experience this summer was… Okay, it wasn’t actually The Hunger Games, book 1. It wasn’t even Catching Fire, book 2. It was really…

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: character, fiction, hunger games, novel, YA

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