Now, topics such as sexuality, substance abuse, gang involvement, suicide, self-mutilation, eating disorders, and depression are the mainstay of fiction for the 12- to 18-year-old reader. In the past, controversial and mature topics, while not expressly taboo, were seldom addressed in YA literature.
This trend can be attributed in part to the increased range of subject matter. According to the Association of American Publishers, in spite of all the media available, young adults are not only still buying books but buying books in unprecedented numbers. Kids Can Press, 2002 247 pages/ ages 12-18Ĭommentators such as Booklist Magazine critic Michael Cart, and former president of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Paula Brehm-Heeger have called the first decade of the 21st century the golden age of young adult (YA) literature.
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