Young Adult Literature

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    “Her voice is thin and her moan is high,
    And her cackling laugh or her barking cold
    Bring terror to the young and old.
    O Molly, Molly, Molly Means
    Lean is the ghost of Molly Means.”
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    “An air lambent with adult enterprise ...”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That’s what their substance is.”
    —Jonathan Miller (b. 1936)