following up on that last one..

Slate's offering up Ann Hulbert's interesting take on the Buffalo Tree controversy, and "problem" young-adult novels in general. The article makes an interesting point. Based on my own experience, by my junior year in high school, if not before, the books we were reading were all firmly in the "adult" camp. (Hell, our junior year class project involved reading three novels by one author and seeking out specific themes in them. For the record: my project was on Tom Robbins). Any educational theoreticians want to take a crack at some of the questions that this debate poses?