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Writing For Young Adults

Why I’ve Returned to YA Fiction Nearly 40 Years After Publishing My Second Young Adult Novel

Author Elizabeth Harlan discusses writing two young adult novels in the 1980s and then taking nearly 40 years off until publishing her third.

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