In his article “Should Young Adult Books Explore Difficult Issues,” Christopher John Farley suggests that young adult books are appropriate for adolescents to read. He shows this through the topics presented in the books. The world today is filled with corrupt people, and it is helpful for the younger generation to know about those difficult issues by reading young adult books. The journal’s Meghan Cox Gurdon is telling everyone that knowing about real realities of life is not bad for young readers. She says that by learning about them, it helps kids prevent them from happening in the first place. It also gives kids awareness to what they are dealing with: “The argument in favor of such novels is that they validate the teen experience, giving
