Posted June 05, 2009 by Lauren in Writer's Resources
Editor Cheryl Klein has posted an interesting working definition of what makes a novel Young Adult on her blog suggesting:
1. A YA novel is centrally interested in the experience and growth of
2. its teenage protagonist(s),
3. whose dramatized choices, actions, and concerns drive the
4. story,
5. and it is narrated with relative immediacy to that teenage perspective.
For futher discussion of the terms and to weigh in on her theory, visit her blog at http://chavelaque.blogspot.com/2009/06/theory-definition-of-ya-literature.html
