Young Adult Literature

Through her stories, 16-year-old Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee implored adults to lend an ear to adolescents

Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee's This is How It Took Place is a collection of short stories written by the 16-year-old author, who passed away in 2017. Though the book has been endorsed by Jeet Thayyil, who calls the writer ‘Prodigious, gifted, precocious,’ many of the stories remain raw and uneven. And yet, the three stories that are truly complete — the title story, ‘A Vacancy’, and ‘La Mer’ — are enough to justify Thayyil’s blurb.

Toppers book review: A political thriller set in a school, will this change YA fiction in India?

Toppers, by debutant writer Aayush, is the kind of Young Adult fiction rarely seen so far in Indian writing in English

Bestselling teen novels bristle with swear words

Sarah Coyne, professor at the Brigham Young University, US, analysed the use of profanity in 40 books on an adolescent bestsellers list. On average, teen novels contain 38 instances of profanity between the covers. That translates to almost seven instances of profanity per hour spent reading.