....so many of my students have great friend groups in their stories with tight relationships and sudden betrayals, at least according to their plot outlines. This makes me happy for two reasons:
1. It confirms my sense that young adult literature in general is becoming more and more peer-group focused, or perhaps this is something that's always been great about YA lit, come to think of it, as things like 'The Book of Three" and "The White Mountains" and even "Redwall," come to mind. I haven't read "The Hunger Games" yet, but the summary of that one as given me by one of my tutees was that, while there's a principal romance at work in the stories, the book itself is at least as concerned with the main character and her friends, not just the boy she loves. And since I think solid friend groups and "fellowships" are both more interesting to read and harder to write well than straight romance, I like this trend.
2. *I* get to read all these stories! And I LOVE friendships, fellowships and and gasp-oh-no-what-now?! betrayals! Whee!
Me too. I think my MCI may contain all of those? At any rate my novel does. Yessssss! But I'm jealous of all the ones you're going to get to read now. Tell them to submit to publishers so that other people get a chance at them, too!
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