Young adult fiction is the best-kept secret in publishing. Rather than getting stuck in the midlist graveyard, like Daniel Handler before he became Lemony Snicket, authors - and readers - would be doing themselves a favor to check out the genre. Crossover titles from this field have made it onto bestseller lists and into the hearts of us Not-So Young Adults quite a bit recently. If you've already pre-ordered your Harry Potter, and you're getting gray hairs (Old Adult?) waiting for the movies based on Philip Pullman's by British writer Hanif Kureishi. more ›

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