{"id":393,"date":"2013-05-30T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/?p=393"},"modified":"2013-07-09T15:50:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:50:16","slug":"audiobooks-for-young-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/audiobooks-for-young-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Audiobooks For Young Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Books written for the middle school years (and a little beyond) are classed as YA (for Young Adult). This is a category that has grown in recent years with the understanding that there was a gap between reading books about plucky twelve year olds and the mainstream of books for adults. Here is a \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/childrensbooks.about.com\/od\/toppicks\/tp\/Audio-Books-For-Teens.htm\">top ten<\/a>\u2019 selection that will give you plenty of ideas.<\/p>\n<p>In particular let\u2019s look at Marcus Zusak&#8217;s \u00a0\u201cThe Book Thief\u201d. Set during World War II in Germany, the novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. She shares stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. It&#8217;s long \u2013 eight CDs \u2013 but critically lauded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books written for the middle school years (and a little beyond) are classed as YA (for Young Adult). This is a category that has grown in recent years with the understanding that there was a gap between reading books about plucky twelve year olds and the mainstream of books for adults. Here is a \u2018top &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/audiobooks-for-young-adults\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Audiobooks For Young Adults&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-audiobooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}