The New York Times has a wonderful article about the new type of books for teen girls: Young Adult Fiction: Wild Things. Naomi Wolf critiques (justly and decisively) the Gossip Girl, A-List and Clique series. This is a must-read article for librarians who have these books in their collections. I am not saying that we should pull the books from our shelves, I certainly am not. But we should know what we are offering children and why their parents may have objections beyond the sexual content. That said, teens are reading and if they weren’t reading this type of trash then they would be reading adult trash novels. I definitely did as a teen.