Boys in YA

Jul 21, 2010 10:05

Everyone who reads or writes YA should read this blog post by Hannah Moskowitz about "the boy problem" in YA literature: why do teen boys not read YA?

Here's a little teaser:

--boys aren't skipping their way through high school, either.

So why do MG books remember this and not YA? Why are MG books looking at showing boys every aspect of themselves, like Greg's issues with his drippy friends and his little brother, and simultaneously giving them an escape with superheros and gross-out humor, when this seems to be something that YA can't grasp?

Well, I'll tell you why.
 Hannah is a YA author whose first book, Break, about a boy on a mission to break all of his bones, came out from Simon Pulse in 2009. Her novels Invincible Summer and The Animals Were Gone come out from Simon Pulse in April 2011 and Spring 2012, respectively, and her MG novel, Zombie Tag, will be out this fall from Roaring Brook Press. Oh, and they all have male protagonists.

ya novels are an important part of life

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