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Controversial Issues In The YA Novel

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The use of fiction as a tool to educate and inform adolescents is as widespread today (Meltzer 2001). The YA themes should appeal the interests, the age groups, ability to explore the world complexities and problems encountered in teenage (Clark et. al 2001).However, the YA novel has evolved so much in the last three decades that topics ranging from drug addiction to sexual orientation can be found in any contemporary adolescent novel ( Carl, 2001; Glasgow, 2001; Mikulecky, 1998; Salvner, 1998; St. Clair, 1995). Use of ‘edgy’ content including violence, sex, profanity and other potentially objectionable content has been aroused a controversy. (Coyne, Callister, S 2012; Ferguson 2014). Teenagers should not expose to controversial issues in
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