So… what’s been unveiled as the hottest-yet-coolest category of books we’d all be ever-so-sorry to miss out on this summer? According to the velvet-voiced and very bright people at National Public Radio (jazzy drum roll, please), it’s…
…Young Adult Fiction, of course.
In fact, this coveted shelf in your library/ bookstore/Kindle-screen is so very smokin’ hot that NPR has selected YA fic as the spotlighted focus of their annual summer readers’ poll. A poll? you say. Yes. With voting and all. So, if you’ve got a favorite readable, zip on over to the NPR Books zone and express yourself (you can nominate five faves, either single titles or series). You’ll note that even the exalted wise-guys at NPR struggle, as do many of us, with a nailed-down definition of just precisely what constitutes YA, but they promise to herd together a scrum of experts and elbow-patch-wearing-know-it-alls to pin that semantic sucker down. So, go on with ya, head over to NPR and tell the world what title(s) rule your 12-to-18-year-old reading realm. Then, check back here later & I’ll let you know if the rest of the YA-book-loving-universe agrees with you. (You are curious, aren’t you?)