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Monday 26 May 2014

The Young Adult Book Reviews

By Marci Glover


These are fictional books written to target the adolescent between the ages of thirteen to twenty one. I maybe asked why am saying this young adult book reviews are fictional it is because most of the authors create imaginary events and people who live in a perfect world. Themes used to write this books are however the challenges faced by young people in the society today like alcoholism, romance, crime, rape, suicide etc.

The author puts himself in the adolescent stage and tries to imagine what issues affect or interests them. For instant, an author may decide to write about self-esteem and title the book inner beauty. Then a review of inner beauty is written in a way to attract the targeted audience who in this case re the youth. He/ she use a character, Mary, who has issues with her self-esteem.

The story goes on to say that the vampire and the human being get married and live for many years with children, all this time the wife not knowing she is married to a vampire. It is only one day that the wife discovers some strange things going on and decides to ask her husband about it, that is when the husband lets the cat out of the bag and tells her the truth about himself.

For instance, an author may write about a boy who has lived and grown in poverty, has not had a decent education due to financial problems, misses meals and many struggles and ends up as a drug addict or a gangster.

Then the author tells us how this good boy turns into the most wanted criminal by the police and is feared by many. Suddenly things change when this boy decides that he is tired of crime and turns himself to the police, interestingly he is given a pardon to be released out of jail after serving only one and a half years, I mean this is the kind of criminal that should stay in jail for many years if not forever, that is what many readers would think but the author decides to surprise us by this turn of event.

Outside jail he decides help youths around not to turn out to be like him. The author speaks to this youth indirect that crime is not good no matter the situation. You will see that the genre the authors use appeal to these youths. Like the case of this boy who turns into a drug addict and gangster, the author writes about the very thing that happens to society today.

In the nineteen nineties is when the field for young adults literature matured coming on its own, serious and better written. The young adult book has sometime been referred to as the problem novel because of the things authors choose to write such as crime, drug abuse, alcoholism etc. Which are societal and personal problems.

This can boost a students comprehension when a canonical pieces is used alongside. The young adults literature have created an immense to schools that the students are in acting classes, their imagination to another world is created when they act like the famous play of shake spear.




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