The Vintage Reader

What's the problem?Salon.com Life | The gloom and doom canon: "'Librarians aren't psychologists,' says Stephanie Reynolds, a library science Ph.D. candidate in Denton, Texas, who is writing a dissertation on bibliotherapy and teen novels. 'But at the same time, you never know when that one shy child who maybe has an abuse or neglect problem at home -- if you give that child the one book that might give her the guts, the power and the information she might need, it might save her life.'"

Salon discusses Welcome to the Lizard Motel, a new book about how horrible it is that children's and young adult literature is so full of realism. Why, oh why, can't everything be Sweet Valley High? (that was sarcastic, btw)