Taking Different Roads to the City: The Development of Ursula K. Le Guin's Young Adult Novels (Critical Essay‪)‬

With the recent publication of Gifts, Ursula K. Le Guin returns to the immersive or alternative world fantasy for young adults. (1) Gifts reminds us of the Earthsea trilogy--but her latest novel benefits from Le Guin's work as a novelist generally, and her work in the young adult novel specifically, during the thirty-two years between The Farthest Shore and Gifts. This first book of the Western Shore trilogy is her most satisfying work of young adult literature to date. Young Adult Literature