'Luna' -- transgender issues for young adult readers

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'Luna' -- transgender issues for young adult readers

http://www.examiner.com/x-12237-Denver-Transgender-Issues-Examiner~y2009m7d6-Luna--transgender-issues-for-young-adult-readers
7/6/09

Today's teens lead complex lives and are faced with issues that their grandparents, as adolescents, would not have been able to fathom — and it shows in their reading material.

William Porter, reporting for The Denver Post, discusses the new "darker" teen fiction that deals with suicide, sexual abuse, and eating disorders. And teens are eating it up.