
According to Laminack and Bell, genre is typically defined as a way of organizing or categorizing literature, "a way to group books with similar style, form, or content " (Laminack and Bell, p. 248). [...]young adult literature and our interpretation of it as a genre of literary study have been profoundly altered as a result of this dramatic shift in world affairs. [...]assert Bean and Moni, the places in which teenagers dwell are sanitized and kept free of the poor. [...]for many young people, their displacement as marginalized members of society is only aggravated by the increasingly complex and global world of market-driven consumerism. [...]this new dynamic-true, always present in the lives of young adults since the end of the second World War, but now ever heightened by modern technology-governs their lives.