Recent market trends have reported that teen book sales are booming--up by a quarter between 1999 and 2005. According to Michael Cart, a leading authority on young adult literature, "Kids are buying books in quantities we've never seen before, and publishers are courting young adults in ways we haven't seen since the 1940s...We are right smack-dab in the new golden age of young adult literature."
Of course teens don't have to go to bookstores to enjoy current fiction, magazines, graphic novels, comics, and poetry just visit your local public library. Here at the Dover Public Library teen reading trends have also been on the rise. Check out the graph below which shows young adult fiction circulation statistics from 1998 to 2006.
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