Tonight my Reader Advisory students are back from their week long Spring Break, and I expect it will be an almost party like atmosphere in class. My friend Penny is going to be a guest speaker/contributor, the topic for tonight's class is Young Adult Fiction, and at the end of class students will be selecting the Chick Lit titles they will be reading for next week. Put those three things together and you've got yourself a par-tay.

For this week's class I read Alice, I Think by Susan Juby. Meet Alice MacLeod. After a disastrous week of first grade where she went to school dressed as a Hobbit, Alice's parents decide to home-school her. Now ten years have passed and Alice finds herself in the daunting position of returning to public school thanks to her new counselor, Death Lord Bob. As Alice notes, "I grew up in one of those loving families that fail to prepare a person for real life." While Alice has created a set of Life Goals to help her get started, will she be able to successfully reenter a real school, let alone the real world? With Alice the journey is sure to be bumpy and entertaining. Readers looking for a fresh, funny, and often sarcastic look at what it means to be a "normal" teenager will enjoy looking at life through Alice's eyes. Alice, I Think is one book both teens and adult will not want to miss.

I love reading YA Fiction, and I am not alone. Which leads to this week's question: why do adults enjoy reading YA Fiction so much. Is it nostalgia? Insight to teens of today? Or is it something else? Let me know what you think.

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