Comments on: Book Review: Can You See Me Now? http://richincolor.com/2014/08/book-review-can-you-see-me-now/ Reading & Reviewing Diverse YA Books Sat, 16 Aug 2014 00:07:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: K. Imani Tennyson http://richincolor.com/2014/08/book-review-can-you-see-me-now/#comment-78193 Sat, 16 Aug 2014 00:07:36 +0000 http://richincolor.com/?p=2787#comment-78193 I agree with you about publishers being skittish about deep content for middle grades, and that tells me they don’t know their audience. Young people can handle deeper issues because often times, they are going through it themselves. It’s nice to know someone agrees with me on getting the distinctions right between the two categories.

Also, here is the link for the article. It’s from Writer’s Digest.
http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/the-key-differences-between-middle-grade-vs-young-adult

]]> By: Lyn Miller-Lachmann http://richincolor.com/2014/08/book-review-can-you-see-me-now/#comment-77769 Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:26:25 +0000 http://richincolor.com/?p=2787#comment-77769 Thank you for the review! And do you have a link for the article on the differences between MG and YA? I’m starting a new project that could go either way.

I read Can You See Me Now? and saw it as solidly MG, with a 12-year-old protagonist and other characters her age, as well as the concrete expression of her grief which was entirely believable given her cognitive level. It is unfortunate when publishers try to market novels in a different category from where they belong because they don’t know the difference, they’re skittish about serious content like death, or else they’re trying to shoehorn the novel into a category that’s currently in fashion.

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