Bookshelves of Lesser Doom

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Oct 6 '11
“This is a population of young people who don’t remember a time when the country was not at war. It makes perfect sense that their literature would allow them a way to exercise their thoughts about the nature of good and evil, and that it might reflect violence and great loss.”
— Rosemary Stimola, on current YA fiction.

(Source: publishersweekly.com)

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