POPULAR YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

Popular Young Adult Books attempt to depict problems involving the youngsters and offers easy solutions to them. This literary genre became popular in the 19 th century with gradual complications creeping into the social and personal lives of young people. The storylines are mostly serious studies on the consequences of different social abuses leading to mental perversions among the young adults.

Popular Young Adult Books are written, published and marketed solely for young readers between 12 to 18 years, keeping in mind the typical problems they face while growing up. Friendships, maturity ushering in with adolescence, coming of age, dating, fitting in, self-respect, schools, sex, drugs, and the relationships with the family members are issues that is usually dealt with by the Popular Young Adult Books. The storytelling method is such that it eases serious issues with play of words, thus providing ample reading comforts. In other words, to the young adults, these books appear to me more entertaining than instructive.

Popular Young Adult Books can be otherwise termed as problem books, but they do not go by their names. Rather, they help the youngsters to handle difficult matters and awkward situations in their lives, retaining their mental cools.

Graphic Novels are a part of Popular Young Adult Books. Through their vivid pictorial representations, they make reading fun and enjoyable. Young folks can rest in physical and mental peace while going through the pages.

These are a few Popular Young Adult Books having wide applauses:

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book-7) - J.K. Rowling
• The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
• Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
• Feed - M.T. Anderson
• Holes - Louis Sachar
• The Giver - Lois Lowry
• Monster - Walter Dean Myers
• The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
• House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer
• The Bad Beginning: A Series of Unfortunate Events (Book-1) - Lemony Snicket
• The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke
• Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
• Tom Brown's Schooldays - Thomas Hughes
• Treasure Island – R. L. Stevenson

The increase popularity of Young Adult Fictions is due to the fact that they handle grave and delicate juvenile issues with such efficiency and ease, that children learn something from the narrations rather than fleeing from them.