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This past weekend, at a little after 5 P.M. on Saturday night, John Hansen started musing about realistic YA characters. Frustrated with homework, he was wondering how YA characters out saving the world manage to even find the time. After suggesting his followers start tweeting out their own #VeryRealisticYA characters and stories, things quickly took off.
Authors like Scott Westerfield, The Bloggess, Zoraida Córdova, Saladin Ahmed, Kody Keplinger, Michelle Krys, and even our own Andrew Shaffer joined in the fun, while John left his trending hashtag to go work on an English paper. Which, as he said, was the truest example of #VeryRealisticYA.
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The survival of the world depends on girl learning to control her powers. Girl can't. Everyone dies.
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Girl gets a note reading "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER".
She's relieved someone is finally reading her tumblr.
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Boy goes to wizard school. Incurs crushing debt; graduates; wizard job market is terrible. Does nothing with wizard degree.
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The last one probably ends up using political connections to get a crappy government job.
More at the sources:
http://bookriot.com/2015/03/30/best-veryrealisticya/
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/veryrealisticya
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Girl discovers she is "chosen one" for magical realm attacked by evil wizard.
Realm has no wifi. Girl lets wizard have it.
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