BiblioFiles is back! To launch our season on Juvenile and YA Fiction, Adam and Missy join Ian for a conversation about the state of literature for young readers today. What is the difference between a “juvenile” and “YA” classification? Should such a differentiation between genres exist in the first place? The CenterForLit Directors talk about the history of the split, their concerns for such specialization in the publishing industry, and a few ways they also see YA fiction currently being used for good.

Referenced Works:

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• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson


• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder


• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton


• Divergent by Veronica Roth


• “The Case for Good Taste in Children’s Literature” by Meghan Cox Gurdon


• Orbiting Jupiter by Gary Schmidt


• Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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