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On Books & Writing

Is Today's Young Adult Literature "Too Dark"?

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Jeffrey Overstreet

29 Jun 2011
Filed under: On Books & Writing • Sara Zarr • Good Letters

If you were to ask me that question, I would refer you to my favorite Young Adult novelist: Sara Zarr.

And she would say something like this...

...her contribution today to the Good Letters blog.

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