I Want to Scream: The Most Important Phrase in YA Lit?
I started noticing it around 2008. While reading and reviewing YA novels, the same phrase kept popping up:
Any simple four-word sentence has a decent chance of being repeated. No big deal, then. But time went by and I kept finding it—not every day, but every couple months or so. Was I the only one noticing this?
Finally, driven to action by the n-teenth appearance, I began taking photographs…
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Just like the book’s protagonist, the teens reading your words likely can’t scream while they’re reading. They might be...
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