The Ultimate Guide to Crafting Fiction for Young Adult and Middle Grade Readers. The book features basic and advanced writing techniques, examples from bestselling titles with discussions about why they work, and detailed exercises, making this the perfect book for writers and non-writers alike. This is the first interactive writing guidebook for scribes of middle-grade and young-adult literature from a literary agent's perspective. It focuses heavily on aspects of the kitlit writing craft, pulls from the dynamic and constantly evolving canon of today's best children fiction, and is filled with writing exercises and challenges.