I was curious about Jacqueline Wilson's Katy, but haven't read it yet. My reading of current childrens/YA fiction tends to follow what my daughter is reading and she has moved on from JW to the likes of John Green. (I slightly felt JW was losing her touch the last couple of books I read, just to go even more off-topic!) I thought TFIOS shared something with AF's books actually, although being a very different genre and style. It wasn't afraid of being 'too clever' for it's audience. Like AF, John Green seems to assume that teenagers like to engage with unfamiliar ideas and don't mind going to look up a reference that they don't immediately 'get'.
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Date: 2015-09-23 08:02 am (UTC)I thought TFIOS shared something with AF's books actually, although being a very different genre and style. It wasn't afraid of being 'too clever' for it's audience. Like AF, John Green seems to assume that teenagers like to engage with unfamiliar ideas and don't mind going to look up a reference that they don't immediately 'get'.