{"id":20717,"date":"2013-10-07T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T04:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=20717"},"modified":"2013-10-06T21:25:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T01:25:35","slug":"crowdsourcing-the-essentials-young-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/10\/07\/crowdsourcing-the-essentials-young-adult\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourcing The Essentials: Young Adult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Previously: <a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/09\/23\/crowdsourcing-the-essential-books-noir\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/09\/23\/crowdsourcing-the-essential-books-noir\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>noir<\/strong><\/span><\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p>Okay, this is a big one.<\/p>\n<p>Big category. Not really a genre (though some have debated it is, I&#8217;d argue it&#8217;s an age range).<\/p>\n<p>Young adult fiction.<\/p>\n<p>No subgenres in particular.<\/p>\n<p>But I want to know: what do you consider to be the most essential reads for anyone looking to pick up a young adult book? And further, what (for you) makes a young adult book? What <em>is<\/em> YA?<\/p>\n<p>So, drop to the comments, and discuss. Oh, and list your top three essential YA reads, too!<\/p>\n<p>(related: <a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/06\/04\/25-things-you-should-know-about-young-adult-fiction\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/06\/04\/25-things-you-should-know-about-young-adult-fiction\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>25 Things You Should Know About Young Adult Fiction<\/strong><\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Previously: noir!) Okay, this is a big one. Big category. Not really a genre (though some have debated it is, I&#8217;d argue it&#8217;s an age range). Young adult fiction. No subgenres in particular. But I want to know: what do you consider to be the most essential reads for anyone looking to pick up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-5o9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20717"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20722,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717\/revisions\/20722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}