Girl Detectives
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Yesterday was a high and low day—a business meeting that left me feeling hollow, a blog-world embrace that I will never forget. There is no sap in the kind of blog goodness that was sent my way yesterday. There is only strength.
There is also only strength in conversation, and there's a very intriguing conversation currently ongoing at Chasing Ray. The overarching theme, as you know, is What a Girl Wants. Today's conversation is called The Girl Detective Edition. Colleen Mondor, who hosts this dialogue among YA writers, is wondering about the apparent absence of Nancy Drew-style detectives in contemporary YA. Middle grade books feature them. Adult books do. What has happened to YA? What does it mean, and does it matter?
