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The paper cites a number of factors that might explain the drop: a stronger economy, stabilization of the drug-trade, stricter sentencing laws, improved police tactics, periodic gang truces, and a decrease in the young-adult demographic.
My wife, who is a schoolteacher, has developed an insatiable appetite for young-adult historical fiction quite independent of the professional requirements of keeping up with what her students are reading, finding new texts to assign, and so forth.
Although a few critics find it too heavy with "only-in-the-movies claptrap" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ), most praise the film because "it never slides down that slippery slope of sap that you keep expecting" (Jami Bernard, New York Daily News ). (Find out about the young-adult novel that is the basis for this film.)
But surely an important reason for the hegemony of the young-adult audience is simply that young adults tend to be the ones who are buying advertising time, designing the ads, and, increasingly, writing and programming the shows and films that we see.