Wednesday, May 28, 2014

The Young Adult Book Reviews

By Marci Glover


These are books aimed at adolescent children of the age brackets of 13-21. The themes used in writing of young adult book reviews mostly are drug abuse, love and romance, sexuality etc. The plot of the stories is written within the age bracket of the readers and they get to experience and live with the characters in their world.

It is difficult to say that what interest a child would interest an adult. That is why a young adult book is specifically written for the adolescent between the ages of thirteen to twenty one. The style used to write these books are often tangible and the characters appeal readily to the young readers.

Mary is an intelligent girl but no one wants to associate with her because she is a geek and was considered ugly. She discovered that she can sing and act and joined singing and acting classes. The first time she goes on stage the audience in her school laughs at her so hard that she leaves the stage crying and vows to quit the singing and acting classes.

The story above is obviously fictional as there is no good and bad vampires, the fact that they are vampires they are all bad. The author also incorporates love and romance into the story, now this happens to many young people, they do fall in love, and by the author using that theme he/she might sell a lot of his/her novel.

Then the author tells us how this good boy turns into the most wanted criminal by the police and is feared by many. Suddenly things change when this boy decides that he is tired of crime and turns himself to the police, interestingly he is given a pardon to be released out of jail after serving only one and a half years, I mean this is the kind of criminal that should stay in jail for many years if not forever, that is what many readers would think but the author decides to surprise us by this turn of event.

Outside jail he decides help youths around not to turn out to be like him. The author speaks to this youth indirect that crime is not good no matter the situation. You will see that the genre the authors use appeal to these youths. Like the case of this boy who turns into a drug addict and gangster, the author writes about the very thing that happens to society today.

In the nineteen nineties is when the field for young adults literature matured coming on its own, serious and better written. The young adult book has sometime been referred to as the problem novel because of the things authors choose to write such as crime, drug abuse, alcoholism etc. Which are societal and personal problems.

Nowadays, schools have incorporated the young literature in the learning systems. The schools have also gone further to introduce drama or acting classes whereby the students bring life to the stage what they have learnt in class. This makes learning more interesting and boosts students comprehension. The most famous book that was acted out is Romeo and Juliet by shake spear and u will agree with me that it has been a great success to the author and loved by many all over the world.




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