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Does anyone remember the dark and depressing teen novels, like Deenie about the anorexic girl (a Blume novel, if I remember right) and all those sorts? The Katherine Patterson ones come to mind, like Bridge to Terabithia (where the girl dies) and The Great Gilly Hopkins, about an unwanted foster kid who gets a sad but sappy family. Jean Craighead George also wrote books like Julie of the Wolves and a tearjerker called The Cry of the Crow. Some young adult books are just great and fluffy (I love all the ones you've mentioned), but I also read an article in the Wall Street Journal about how they've gotten darker. The reviews included one about a girl who's passed off as her father's girlfriend by him and gets rescued by a transvestite (I shit you not), and one called The Rainbow Party about teenagers gathering for oral sex parties. And there's always the Caroline Cooney mysteries, which were far more graphic and violent than Nancy Drew. Sounds off to me, but then I have a funny but somewhat disturbing one called NASTYbook by Barry Yourgrau, and among the tales in that one is a story about a kid whose rich parents don't really love him but just adopted him for a while and are now sending him back to live with his ugly, gross true family.