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One thing I’ve been consistently surprised by since I started writing fiction for teenagers is how many other YA writers I’ve talked to DO still seem to think that our books should be somehow prescriptive— that YA fiction is different from other fiction because of the kinds stories we should be telling and the morals we need to impart (or not impart).