"What is Young Adult Literature?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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[@marylee8372]

Super explanation of YA.

[@SWLF]

Thanks, @marylee8372 ! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well!

[@adrianaautor7498]

En Argentina un libro está sufriendo acoso de parte del gobierno. Se trata de la novela "COMETIERRA". ESTE LIBRO está en escuelas secundarias. Nuestro gobierno no entiende la nueva literatura juvenil.

[@SWLF]

¡Qué triste! Pasa algo similar en EE.UU., especialmente en cuanto a los libros como Precious de Sapphire, The Handmaid's Tale de Margaret Atwood, The Bluest Eye de Toni Morrison y Fun Home de Alison Bechdel.

[@Khatoon170]

Thank you for your wonderful literary cultural channel. If you please can I gather main information of every video it’s great help for me to improve my English. Young adult literature is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 , including most of themes found in adults fiction such as friendships, substance, abuse , alcoholism, sexuality. Stories that focuse of youth other categorized association or coming of age novels . There are six steps for writing adults novel get pov . Make sure of characters age suits audience. Figure out voice , language will follow. Don’t be shy of touchy subjects . Don’t get preachy . Write hopeful ending. Famous young adults author such as Louis may Alcott her novel little women , genre children, adult , realistic novel , romance. It’s really great novel we watched little women cartoon dubbed into Arabic . Plot summary as I remember sisters with their mother and , they spent first Christmas without their father during American civil war , they helped poor and fed hungry family . Thank you for giving us chance to read learn new information, remanded us of our beautiful childhood memories.

[@SWLF]

Thanks so much for keeping the conversation going, @Khatoon170! If you'd like to read the transcripts for our videos to help you practice your English, you can find them here: liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/oregon-state-guide-english-literary-terms