Tuesday, April 21, 2015

What is YA? (According to EBSCO)

Just got this email from EBSCO, Dallas ISD has a subscription, and many colleges and public libraries also subscribe to this database...

"Young Adult (YA) literature has made a name for itself, creeping onto best-seller lists and breaking box office records with film adaptations. “The Hunger Games.” “Divergent.” “The Giver.” “The Fault in Our Stars.” Even if you don’t know what YA is, there is probably a YA title rolling around in your mind. The genre is exploding, snagging readers across age ranges and cultures. YA is breaking boundaries.
But what is YA? Is it just a marketing term, or is it more? Recently I stumbled across a blog by catagator. It’s a list of book lists, but when I started scrolling and clicking through, the breakdown of genre and content available in YA blew me away. Diving in by genre, subgenre, format, theme – YA has so much going on! Short stories, urban fiction, dystopia, magical realism, historical fiction, horror, verse novels – if you’ve got a craving for something specific, it exists. And there are readers and librarians and writers tweeting, blogging and listing their love of YA.

If you are interested in YA, take a look at our eBook collections like the Youth Award Winners Collection, or our Genre collections, or the eBook High School Subscription Collection. YA is everywhere and worth more than a few reads."

I'll have to look and see if our subscription covers this!!

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