I'm currently reading the tenth Percy Jackson book. IMO these are extremely enjoyable books, right about on the Harry Potter level. Maybe not quite reaching t

I'm currently reading the tenth Percy Jackson book. IMO these are extremely enjoyable books, right about on the Harry Potter level. Maybe not quite reaching the heights of the best of HP, but more generally consistent. I've not yet started my six-year-old son on the first of them, but I certainly will soon, and I'll be delighted if he likes them, because they are good stories. Personally, I don't get the anti-YA snobbery you see so often in this sort of article. The median "adult" novel sucks every bit as much as the median YA. Many of the classic novels of the 19th century would qualify as YA if written today. YA mostly just means the protagonists are younger and the writing is clearer.