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Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined
by Danielle Younge-Ullman
Work in a high school library and my goal for this year was to find some YA that I could soldier through and maybe even enjoy. This is one of them.
As an aside, I try to read YA through the eyes/mind of a teen/ya, but with a somewhat critical eye towards the quality of the writing. Either YA did not exist when I was growing up, or I skipped right over it to adult writing, so much of it seems rather lame. Does nothing to challenge the reader (and I mean challenge on a YA level, develop vocabulary, etc. And, please, don't say that books can just be entertaining because God knows I read enough Victoria Holt in the sixth grade that I could have ghostwritten books for her by high school. I'm working on it.
As an aside, I try to read YA through the eyes/mind of a teen/ya, but with a somewhat critical eye towards the quality of the writing. Either YA did not exist when I was growing up, or I skipped right over it to adult writing, so much of it seems rather lame. Does nothing to challenge the reader (and I mean challenge on a YA level, develop vocabulary, etc. And, please, don't say that books can just be entertaining because God knows I read enough Victoria Holt in the sixth grade that I could have ghostwritten books for her by high school. I'm working on it.