Cool books for cool kids / Young adult fiction for summer reflects teens' world, style
"Summer is so exciting because finally, it's a time when teens come into the library and ask for books they want to read," according to Betsy Levine, the San Francisco Public Library's teen librarian. Awaiting them is the burgeoning world of YA, or young adult literature, where recent innovations, from novels in the form of instant text messages and verse to crossover titles that are attracting as many adults as adolescents, are redefining a genre that once had little appeal for teens.
