One of them is how popular kids don't like unpopular kids. There's an article on the Huffington Post that talks about how, most of the time, popular girls don't actually hate the ones in their social circle (DeRosa). Personally I believe that this does not exist in my school. While people can dine separately, the interactions are free. If someone wants to talk to someone else, they just do it. The fact of the matter is that most kids just want to get along. So while these books may claim to help kids deal with their problems, the reality is that they are creating labeling problems. Another character that is generalized in young adult literature are parents or guardians. Most of the time they are considered bad parents or simply absent. Julie Just, a writer for the New York Times, says: "...The bad parent is now enjoying a heyday. It would be difficult to find an exact figure among the thousands of YA novels published every year, but what is striking is that some of the most insightfully written and critically lauded works reliably present a parent who is dejected, inept, distracted, or ready for rehabilitation, suggesting that this has become a particularly resonant figure. It's just saying that all parents are generalized as bad or absent from the lives of teenagers. Watch one of the best-selling children's novels of all time Harry