---helena kim <helena@apollo.netsoc.tcd.ie> wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Pasha Paterson wrote: > > > treating it as a work of literature and not grouping it with so-called > > "young-adult novels" as some [bad] classes seem to treat it. > > my local library sticks little red dots on the spines of all the 'teen' > books. most of them are babysitters club, sweet valley high, judy > blume, and those epic boys football (i mean soccer) books. > > i believe this is a way to get young teenagers to read more, by letting > them think 'hey, i'm not in the kids section anymore!', but avoiding them > coming home with dostoyevsky (sp?) or something that will bore them and > put them off books. > > interestingly, catcher has a red dot on its spine. > > > :helena kim > > helena at netsoc dot tcd dot ie > 'the church is near, but the road is icy. > the bar is far, but i will walk carefully.' > - russian proverb > First of all I find it very sad that CITR would be categorized in the same section as The Babysitter's Club. Your post reminds me of a teacher I had in 6 grade who would become very angry at a student if they read a book that was not a young adult book. I read Lord of the Flies and she became furious, a fellow student of mine read a John Grisham book and she yelled at him because he was too young to read a book with sex in it. I have a lot of anger towards young adult books because that was what I was forced to read in middle school when I really wanted to read great literature. That is why I am angered when I hear that CITR is categorized as a young adult book. -Liz Friedman > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com