Goodbye, Nancy Drew. Hello, Twilight, terrorism … and transgender issues?
Today’s teens lead complex lives and are faced with issues that their grandparents, as adolescents, would not have been able to fathom — and it shows in their reading material.
William Porter, reporting for The Denver Post, discusses the new “darker” teen fiction that deals with suicide, sexual abuse, and eating disorders. And teens are eating it up.
But are teens ready to deal with transgender issues? Denver area author Julie Anne Peters says yes. Among her award-winning young adult books is Luna, which deals with transgender issues from a sister’s point of view.
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