/lit/ - Literature

I eat up youth historical fiction like popcorn. Even though it is, 99% of the time, from the POV of a too-modern protagnist that is meant to resonate with the 8 - 12 year olds the book is aimed at.

I like my adult historical fiction based on real people and events... not too crazy about "an entire person's life" because most of them end up being too similar to poorly written biographies from the 40s - 60s rather than sounding like novels.

I still love them. Though I wish they'd get with it like Dear Canada and represent some minority girls in America. They passed up the opportunity last year by making a book about Japanese internment written by a white preacher's daughter... oh, Scholastic.

Dear America is still pretty awesome. Although at the time I didn't realize how scandalous it was for the 12-13 year old in this book to fall in love with a 19 year old. (Then again, Dear Canada had a book with a 12-14 year old character engaged to a man twice her age, who would now be the mother of her new best friend)