Three Things We Need to STOP Doing in YA Literature

Reading YA literature, I am becoming disappointed in the messages we are repeatedly sending to young girls. I have teenage students who read a lot who seem to echo the messages of these books in their day-to-day speech. That can be good sometimes, like when we teach people to be tolerant and brave and curious. That can also be bad. Here are three things we need to STOP doing over and over again in YA literature, especially when it targets young women.

1. Oh, he’s so possessive of me, and I fi...