Frances LievensMar 25

I only discovered fantasy novels as a grown-up. As an early teen I loved reading historical novels. The one that lured me over into reading more difficult and bigger books was Aidan Chambers’ Dance On My Grave. A YA novel before that was a thing.

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But YA actually was a thing in my library, though they didn’t call it that. There was a rather strict age division in our local library. So on a blue card for the children’s library I could not take out adult books. But once you turned 13 you got a yellow card.
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With the yellow card I could browse the adult section and take out the books labeled AD (for adolescent). That’s how I found Aidan Chambers and also Hadley Irwin.
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(Anna Woltz’ books remind me a bit of Hadley Irwin. Maybe that’s why I keep recommending them.)