Bethann Martin asked this question about Grasshopper Jungle:
Why do movies get R ratings for using the "F-bomb" but write a book wabout teenagers and call it YA or teen book, fill it with crude language and it's perfectly accepted and even lauded?
Bat Girl I think Andrew Smith said it best himself, when he wrote this:
https://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com/2...
"I do not write for kids; I write for readers."
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I think Andrew Smith said it best himself, when he wrote this:
https://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com/2...
"I do not write for kids; I write for readers."
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