The thing I find most bizarre about the article is her objection to 'profanity'. I understand her concerns about graphic violence in YA, though I don't agree with her. These books need to be written and read. Ideas need to be examined and explored in different ways and from different perspectives. But objecting to books with incest or graphic torture is one thing, but books where characters swear? What the fuck? People are strange. Good post.

Have you read Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall? It's about high school bullying from the perspective of one of the bullies - a beautiful, shallow queen bee type. I really liked it. It made me cry, and not many books can do that to me.