The genre label Young Adult can quite often simply mean that the book has a teenage protagonist. An author friend of mine drove the point home with, “If it had been released today, Catcher In The Rye would be marketed as Young Adult.” So I read them and they don’t always feel entirely age inappropriate. Girls With Sharp Sticks is not one of these books. I’m pretty sure this one was meant for twelve-year-olds. Which isn’t bad! Twelve-year-olds need books too. Call it My First Dystopia. Our […]